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" The human rights of women include their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination, and violence. "
Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right in International Politics - Page 157
by Doris Buss, Didi Herman - 197 pages
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Platform for Action and the Beijing Declaration

DIANE Publishing Company - Women - 1996 - 181 pages
...men have distinct reproductive and sexual health issues which are often inadequately addressed. 96. The human rights of women include their right to have...health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. Equal relationships between women and men in matters of sexual relations and reproduction, including...
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Beijing and Beyond: Toward the Twenty-first Century of Women : Includes the ...

Florence Howe - Social Science - 1996 - 484 pages
...with implicit phraseology. Look closely at this carefully hammered-out wording, from paragraph 97: "The human rights of women include their right to...over and decide freely and responsibly on matters relating to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination,...
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Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader

Cathy Cohen, Kathleen B. Jones, Joan C. Tronto - Health & Fitness - 1997 - 622 pages
...Women's Conference in Beijing was the adoption, in the Platform for Action, of the following paragraph: The human rights of women include their right to have...health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. Equal relationships between women and men in matters of sexual relations and reproduction, including...
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Forced Labor: The Prostitution of Children: Symposium Proceedings

Maureen Jaffe, Sonia Rosen - 1997 - 169 pages
...Consensus language was adopted relating to women's rights in sexual relations. The platform states that human rights of women include their right to have...health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. This language basically states that women have the right to say no, and this is a very important new...
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Human Rights, Self-Determination and Political Change in the Occupied ...

Stephen Bowen - Political Science - 1997 - 340 pages
...Cairo, September 1994, Chapter VII. Beijing Declaration, para. 17; Platform for Action, para. 97 states 'The Human rights of women include their right to have control over and decide responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of...
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Love and Freedom: Professional Women and the Reshaping of Personal Life

Alison Mackinnon - Business & Economics - 1997 - 320 pages
...the world. In spite of considerable division, a Platform of Action was produced which accepted that 'the human rights of women include their right to have control over and to decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive...
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Human Rights in Global Politics

Timothy Dunne, Nicholas J. Wheeler - Political Science - 1999 - 362 pages
...'sexual rights', which are encoded in the health section of the Platform for Action. This maintains that [t]he human rights of women include their right to...health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. Equal relationships between women and men in matters of sexual relations and reproduction, including...
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Reproductive Freedom: In the Context of International Human Rights and ...

Maja Kirilova Eriksson - Law - 2000 - 608 pages
...targets or quotas for the recruitment of clients". Also the Beijing Declaration stresses in § 97 that the human rights of women "include their right to...on matters related to their sexuality". including reproductive health and freedom from coercion. Furthermore. Article l l5 of the Platform for Action...
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Consent: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism

Pamela Haag - Health & Fitness - 1999 - 258 pages
...crafting their platform. They jettisoned the phrase in favor of something presumably less provocative: "The human rights of women include their right to...responsibly on matters related to their sexuality . . . free of coercion, discrimination and violence." Revealingly, an American delegate paraphrased...
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Gender Politics in Global Governance

Mary K. Meyer, Elisabeth Prügl - Political Science - 1999 - 332 pages
...various forms"; it mainstreams the idea that "women's rights are human rights"; and it recognizes that the human rights of women include "their right to...over and decide freely and responsibly on matters relating to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination,...
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