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Voluntary, Human Rights–Based Family Planning: A Conceptual Framework
Author(s) -
Hardee Karen,
Kumar Jan,
Newman Karen,
Bakamjian Lynn,
Harris Shan,
Rodríguez Mariela,
Brown Win
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
studies in family planning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.529
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1728-4465
pISSN - 0039-3665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2014.00373.x
Subject(s) - conceptual framework , family planning , human rights , turnover , business , population , political science , sociology , medicine , economics , environmental health , research methodology , law , social science , management
At the 2012 Family Planning Summit in London, world leaders committed to providing effective family planning information and services to 120 million additional women and girls by the year 2020. Amid positive response, some expressed concern that the numeric goal could signal a retreat from the human rights–centered approach that underpinned the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Achieving the FP2020 goal will take concerted and coordinated efforts among diverse stakeholders and a new programmatic approach supported by the public health and human rights communities. This article presents a new conceptual framework designed to serve as a path toward fulfilling the FP2020 goal. This new unifying framework, which incorporates human rights laws and principles within family‐planning‐program and quality‐of‐care frameworks, brings what have been parallel lines of thought together in one construct to make human rights issues related to family planning practical.