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The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned in a new report that political and social polarisation has put at risk decades of gains in ending inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights, widening the access divide and threatening future progress.In the report, released on April 17, the organisation says that a relentless, well organised effort to push back against human rights and gender equality is underway, and also cautions that resistance to sexual and reproductive health and rights "is resulting in greater marginalisation for communities already left or pushed behind. Efforts to control fertility and restrict bodily autonomy disproportionately affect migrants, people with disabilities, and minority and indigenous communities, among many others."Speaking to The Lancet, Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director, said that considerable gains had been made: "The unintended pregnancy rate has fallen by nearly 20% since 1990, the materna

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