Advancing Reproductive Health as a Human Right

Published by Ipas, the goal of this 58-page report is to review implementation of the ICPD recommendations linked to safe abortion care through the experiences and opinions of key stakeholders in six select countries in the Asian region: India, Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand."These countries were chosen because of their different approaches to abortion and reproductivehealth issues, as well as the presence of civil society organizations interested in these issues.

The illustrative examples in this report highlight the diversity related to reproductive-health and abortion laws, policies and services that exists across a purposively select sample of countries. As a result, none of these countries should be considered as representative of the region, given the incredible diversity and breadth of experience that exists across Asia."

Ipas is an international non-governmental organisation that has worked for three decades to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries; increase women’s ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights; and improve access to reproductive-health services, including safe abortion care. Ipas’s global and country programmes include training, research, advocacy, information dissemination and the distribution of reproductive-health technologies.