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“Why are we excluded?": UNFPA distributes dignity kits to transgender women in Bangladesh following disastrous flooding
- 16 May 2023
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Number of pages: 56
Publication date: 07 Jul 2023
Publisher: UNFPA, Universal Rights Group
This report reviews how the UN human rights system has taken up women's rights, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights and the degree to which these recommendations have been translated into action, with UNFPA's support.
Country examples demonstrate the impact of UNFPA's strategic engagement with UN human rights mechanisms for advancing the rights and choices of women and girls.
The campaign features the stories of 11 women from different parts of the world who experienced different forms of digital violence.
An estimated 121 million pregnancies per year take place in the bodies of women who did not choose pregnancy or motherhood, who were not planning to have a child at that time, with that partner, in those circumstances. Nothing is more fundamental to bodily autonomy than the ability to decide whether or not to become pregnant. Yet for too many, the most life-altering reproductive choice is no choice at all.
Girls should not be sacrificed for her family’s economic salvation, poverty being a driver of child marriage. Let a girl be a girl. And let a woman’s wedding day be unforgettable for the right reasons, with tears shed for joy to celebrate beginnings, not for sorrow to mourn endings.
Introducing a brand new copyright for the human body. Help end online abuse and digital violence by claiming your bodyright.
This year’s report makes the case for a world in which each individual is free to choose their reproductive future in a world of 8 billion.