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Reproductive Health
The three remaining initiatives on women’s rights to use their bodies deal with an important set of reproductive rights such as the right to safe abortion, pregnancy spacing, and the right of male and female youths to protection from sexually transmitted diseases…
The pseudo-regional initiative in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, on abortion rights and practice, deal with the causes that prevent women from enjoying the right to safe abortion as part of reproductive health services. The initiative of the Jordanian Association for Family Planning and Protection focuses on building awareness about the importance of women’s exercise of the right to choose the reproductive period and the number of wanted pregnancies. It has succeeded in reducing the rates of child birth, neonatal mortality and fertility. Tunisia’s initiative on reproductive health among adolescents and youths focuses on the right of this group for accessing information in the area of reproductive health through programmes of education, awareness raising and counselling. The aim is capacity building for decision-making in this area and protection from sexually transmitted diseases.
By treating discriminatory practices on the basis of a legal approach adopting the concept of the ‘healthy family’, the three initiatives on reproductive health have highlighted that the violation of women’s rights in this area is part of the power relations inside the male society, thus negatively impacting on women’s health, children and family relations, including their relations with the husbands. The initiatives also underscore the positive correlation between exercising rights and consolidating legislation, on the one hand, and protection from costly phenomena to society, on the other.
Achieving gender equality: Abortion in laws and practices in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
Adolescent reproductive health: Project of Tunisian Scouts