State of World Population 2012 - Country Page List - UNFPA

For UNFPA, the key benefits to implementing a human rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive
health programming, including family planning, are that doing so:
• Promotes realization of human rights and helps government partners to achieve their human rights commitments;
• Increases and strengthens the participation of the local community;
• Improves transparency;
• Promotes results (and aligns with results based management);
• Increases accountability;
• Reduces vulnerabilities by focusing on the most marginalized and excluded in society; and
• Leads to sustained change as human rights-based programmes have greater impact on norms and values,
structures, policy and practice.
and Pandit-Rajani, 2010; Loaiza and Blake,
2010; World Heath Organization, 2011). The
Programme of Action of the ICPD framed this
right to family planning in the context of the
right to sexual and reproductive health and
reproductive rights, paying special attention to
the needs of specific excluded populations and
to gender equality.
This year’s State of World Population Report
builds on an earlier human rights and health
framework developed by UNFPA and the
Center for Reproductive Rights to include boys
and men, many of whom also want to use family
planning but who have typically been left
out of the discussion. It also emphasizes the
context of the sexual relationships within which
individuals and couples elect to use family
planning. And it advocates for a focus on
extending access to family planning more equitably
across population groups, particularly with
reference to the socioeconomic differentials that
exist in virtually every country of the world.
“A human rights-based approach to sustainable development
gives equal importance to both the outcomes and processes
through which it is achieved.”
The right to family planning has been strongly
upheld and reinforced by a series of international
treaties and conventions, endorsed by the international
community and is firmly grounded in
human rights. The right to family planning is
also a gateway to the achievement of other rights.
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