Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights | ICRH

Yolami is a demonstration-intervention project addressed to young labour migrants in Chinese cities. The project aims to improve their access to health care and to promote their sexual and reproductive health. After investigating determinants of access to health care interventions will be set up and evaluated.

A photo exhibition on teenage pregnancies in Kinshasa aimed at sensitizing Belgian parlementarians and the general public on problems related to sexual and reproductive health and visualises the consequences of a lack of the implementation of sexual and reproductive rights.

Sexual and reproductive ill-health is a cause as well as a consequence of poverty among women who end in a down-ward trend together with their children. Overall policy makers pay little attention to the situation of poor women in the development of their poverty reduction strategy.

During war and armed conflict the vulnerability of children and adolescents increases, particularly cwhere their sexual and reproductive health rights and needs are concerned. Responding to these rights and needs requires a very specific approach.

International organizations agree that the protection of teh sexual and reproductive health rights of refugee and internally displaced women should be a priority in humanitarian programmes. However, these  rights are often regarded to be of less importance than the general problems faced by refugees and internally displaced persons.