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An obstetrician, she led a groundbreaking effort to put women’s rights to control all aspects of their lives at the heart of the global population debate.
Millions of women and girls around the world ‘do not own their own bodies’, UN warns
Report shows that more than half of women in developing countries are denied their fundamental right to make decisions
14 April 2021 • 5:20pm
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Women around the world are “being denied their fundamental right to make decisions” about their bodies, a United Nations report has revealed, showing that half are unable to decide whether to have sex with their partners, use contraception or seek health care.
In its annual State of the World Population report the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has for the first time focused on women’s autonomy over their own bodies. The report measures both women’s power to make decisions and whether national laws empower or restrict women.
Posted February 11, 2021
“Everything is about sex… except sex.
Sex is about power,” – Oscar Wilde
The above quote has stuck with me in the week since UNFPA’s Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem used it – a quote from poet Oscar Wilde – to open the International Conference on Family Planning’s
If, as Wilde says, sex is about power, then:
… how can we deepen our understanding of the contextual forces that shape how consumers perceive their SRH?
… what more can we do to better support consumers to use their voice, choice and agency to make their health and life choices?
… how might we better address power divides to deliver gender transformative programming?