Sexual and Reproductive Health and RightsSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) (SRHR) is a normNorm that refers to the application of human rights to bodily autonomy and control over reproduction and sexuality. But the normNorm underwent a long period of emergence, beginning at the end of World War II. Its emergence was preceded by previous developments in various agendas. We can find traces of SRHRSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) or the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against All Women (CEDAW). In other words, it is part of broad normNorm clusters (Lantis and Wunderlich, Review of International Studies 44:570–659, 2018), ranging from the right to health to gender equalityGender equality, subsumed under sustainable development. And SRHRSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) as such, was finally endorsed during the 1994 Fifth International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in BeijingBeijing World Conference on Women, a period described as “the high point of (a) phase of liberal internationalism” (Crocker, Survival 57:7–30, 2015, p. 10). The 1994 Cairo Program of Action defined reproductive health as a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes”. It also described reproductive rights as the “recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, as well as the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health”.

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The European Union and Gender Equality: The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2017–2021)

  • Diego Badell

摘要

Sexual and Reproductive Health and RightsSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) (SRHR) is a normNorm that refers to the application of human rights to bodily autonomy and control over reproduction and sexuality. But the normNorm underwent a long period of emergence, beginning at the end of World War II. Its emergence was preceded by previous developments in various agendas. We can find traces of SRHRSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) or the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against All Women (CEDAW). In other words, it is part of broad normNorm clusters (Lantis and Wunderlich, Review of International Studies 44:570–659, 2018), ranging from the right to health to gender equalityGender equality, subsumed under sustainable development. And SRHRSexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) as such, was finally endorsed during the 1994 Fifth International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in BeijingBeijing World Conference on Women, a period described as “the high point of (a) phase of liberal internationalism” (Crocker, Survival 57:7–30, 2015, p. 10). The 1994 Cairo Program of Action defined reproductive health as a “state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes”. It also described reproductive rights as the “recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, as well as the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health”.