On
11 July 2012 the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with UNFPA and other partners hosted a groundbreaking summit for a global policy, financing, commodity, and service delivery commitments to support the rights of an additional 120 million women and girls in the world’s poorest countries to use contraceptive information, services and supplies, without coercion or discrimination, by 2020. For this occasion, here are some news about reproductive rights, its relentless struggles, and the progress to be made.
Contraceptive use averts more than 272,000 maternal worldwide deaths from childbirth every year, a new study has claimed.
The Billionaire Melinda Gates Launches Global Crusade for Contraception
Aljazeera Opinion: Let them have contraception
Liberia: Baby Blues – No Policy for Pregnant School Girls
No contraceptives available for 1.7 million Rajasthan women