Title: Centrality of reproductive health in achieving Millennium Development Goals: a framework for action.

POPLINE Document Number: 305282

Author(s):

Agarwal D
Sathyanarayana KM

Source citation:

Journal of Family Welfare, 2006;52 Spec No:1-10.

Abstract:

The links between women's status, reproductive health, and social and economic development were first recognized at the landmark International Conference on Population and Development, a UN meeting held in Cairo in 1994. The Programme of Action adopted at the Conference (referred to here as the ICPD) spelled out a comprehensive plan for making reproductive health including family planning services universally available within a rights framework. While the principles of the ICPD were being translated into action by signatory countries, the Millennium Summit in September 2000 adopted the UN Millennium Declaration, committing nations to a global partnership to reduce poverty, improve health, and promote peace, human rights, gender equality, and environmental sustainability. The Declaration resulted in eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which together formed a policy framework for alleviating poverty and enhancing the well-being of people. The MDGs are the world's time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions - income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion - while promoting .gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. These are also seen as basic human rights - the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter and security as pledged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Millennium Declaration. (excerpt)

Keywords:

India
Critique
Economic Development
Goals
Reproductive Health
Family Planning Programs
Program Accessibility
Mortality
Fertility
Inequalities
Poverty
Human Rights
Asia, Southern
Asia
Developing Countries
Economic Factors
Planning
Organization and Administration
Health
Family Planning
Program Evaluation
Programs
Population Dynamics
Demographic Factors
Population
Socioeconomic Factors
Political Factors
Sociocultural Factors