Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Bangkok: July 2019
The resource “Blueprint for Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice” has just been released by Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, and endorsed by multiple international organisations.
While it focuses on US policy environ, it is more broadly applicable: in particular the focus on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice – as well as the intersections with numerous other issues such as gender equity, racial equity, economic justice, environmental justice, the right to community safety, immigrants’ rights, indigenous people’s rights, LGBTQ+ liberation, young people’s rights, and the rights of people with disabilities.
Because sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice intersect with numerous other issues, policy solutions must also seek to further gender equity, racial equity, economic justice, environmental justice, the right to community safety, immigrants’
rights, indigenous people’s rights, LGBTQ+ liberation, young people’s rights, and the rights of people with disabilities.
- Principle 1: Ensure that Sexual and Reproductive Health Care is Accessible to All People
- Principle 2: Ensure Discriminatory Barriers in Health Care are Eliminated
- Principle 3: Ensure that Research and Innovation Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Now and in the Future
- Principle 4: Ensure Health, Rights, Justice, and Wellness for All Communities
- Principle 5: Ensure Judges and Executive Officials Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
Sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice are essential for sustainable economic development, are intrinsically linked to equity and well-being, and are
critical to maternal, newborn, child, adolescent, family, and community health.
Health care cannot truly be comprehensive if it does not include sexual and reproductive health