Side event 1.15 to 2.30pm Monday 20
July 2015 , conf room 7
Making the SDGs work for women & girls : Why a rights-
based Continuum Care APPROACH IS NEEDED TO IMPROVE WOMEN AND GIRL’S
REPRODUCTIVE Health.
The meeting was hosted by the Mission of Nepal , moderator Susan Alzner UN-NGLS - NY , Ida Klockmann Danish FPA , Santa
Shresthat Beyond Beijing Nepal , Nalini Singh ARROW ( Asia –Pacific Resources
& Research Centre for women).
The handout was a glossy 56 page publication by ARROW called
“ Fulfilling Women’s rights –based continuum of Quality Care for Women’s
reproductive health in South Asia (See above ). This paper is a very clever document . It
quotes UN documents but includes after men and women ( as well as gender
non-conforming people ). Also they claim that Reproductive Rights include the
right to safe , legal and accessible abortion services. Their reference is one
of their own publications. They aslo claim a lot of rubbish under Sexual
Rights.
This was the usual pro-abortion presentation that you would
expect at the UN. There was , to be fair , some good stuff on nutrition , clean
water , basic medical care which was quite good. One attendee even worked in a
fistula hospital.
Of interest was one slide which is difference from usual, the
Lady representing ARROW said :
Safe
abortion and CQC
“One third
of all maternal deaths are due to hemorrhage , infection , and poisoning by
unsafe abortion.
Legalisation
of abortion is a necessary but an insufficient step towards improving women’s
health , especially when effective infrastructure , personnel , ancillary
services and adequate budget are not in place.”
Another slide from their presentation:
Safe
abortion in Nepal
Safe
abortion is legalized in 2002
“Despite the
law , however unsafe abortion in Nepal continues to take place. Women keep on
dying or suffering lifelong morbidities resulting from unsafe abortion.
There was also a lot of talk about Comprehensive Sexuality
education , how this will fix everything for women.”
There was a complaint about Pakistan , Here women are
conditioned by patriarchal attitudes , hospitals deny services to unmarried
girls .
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