Table of Contents
310 relations: A, B and C v Ireland, Abortion, Abortion clinic, Abortion in Alabama, Abortion in Andorra, Abortion in Benin, Abortion in California, Abortion in Cape Verde, Abortion in Chile, Abortion in El Salvador, Abortion in Liberia, Abortion in Liechtenstein, Abortion in Louisiana, Abortion in Malta, Abortion in Michigan, Abortion in Monaco, Abortion in Nicaragua, Abortion in Ohio, Abortion in Poland, Abortion in San Marino, Abortion in Sierra Leone, Abortion in South Africa, Abortion in Tennessee, Abortion in the United States, Abortion in Vermont, Abortion in West Virginia, Abortion in Zambia, Abortion law, Abortion-rights movements, Abstinence-only sex education, Advocacy, Africa, African Americans, African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, African Union, African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom, Age of consent, Alberta, Alberto Fujimori, Amnesty International, Animal, Anti-abortion movements, Anti-abortion violence, Antinatalism, Argentina, Arson, Asexual reproduction, Assassination of George Tiller, Attempted murder, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ... Expand index (260 more) »
- Abortion-rights movement
- Men's rights
A, B and C v Ireland
A, B and C v Ireland is a landmark 2010 case of the European Court of Human Rights on the right to privacy under Article 8.
See Reproductive rights and A, B and C v Ireland
Abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion
Abortion clinic
An abortion clinic or abortion provider is a medical facility that provides abortions.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion clinic
Abortion in Alabama
Abortion in Alabama is illegal.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Alabama
Abortion in Andorra
Abortion in Andorra is illegal in all cases; the Co-Princes of Andorra are the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell, who is required to adhere to Roman Catholic teaching on pregnancy.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Andorra
Abortion in Benin
Abortion in Benin is legally permitted "upon the request of the pregnant woman, voluntary termination of pregnancy can be allowed when the pregnancy is likely to aggravate or cause a situation of material, educational, professional or moral distress incompatible with the interest of the woman and/or the unborn child…" in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
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Abortion in California
Abortion in California is legal up to the point of fetal viability.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in California
Abortion in Cape Verde
Abortion in Cape Verde has been legal upon request prior to 12 weeks gestation since 1986.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Cape Verde
Abortion in Chile
Chile's abortion laws have undergone significant changes in recent years.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Chile
Abortion in El Salvador
Abortion is illegal in El Salvador.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in El Salvador
Abortion in Liberia
In Liberia, abortion is only legal in cases of rape, fetal impairment, or risk to the mother's physical or mental health or life, up to the 24th week of pregnancy.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Liberia
Abortion in Liechtenstein
Abortion in Liechtenstein is illegal in most circumstances with limited exceptions in cases where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk, or where the pregnancy has resulted from a sexual offence.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Liechtenstein
Abortion in Louisiana
Abortion in Louisiana is mostly illegal as of August 1, 2022.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Louisiana
Abortion in Malta
Abortion in Malta is illegal except in cases where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Malta
Abortion in Michigan
Abortion in Michigan is legal throughout pregnancy.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Michigan
Abortion in Monaco
Abortion in Monaco is illegal except in cases of rape, fetal deformity, illness, or fatal danger to the mother.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Monaco
Abortion in Nicaragua
Abortion in Nicaragua is completely illegal.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Nicaragua
Abortion in Ohio
Abortion in Ohio is legal up to the point of fetal viability as a result of abortion rights being placed into the Ohio State Constitution by November 2023 Ohio Issue 1.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Ohio
Abortion in Poland
Abortion in Poland is illegal except in cases where the pregnancy is a result of a criminal act or when the woman's life or health is in danger.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Poland
Abortion in San Marino
Abortion in San Marino is legal in the first 12 weeks of gestation for any reason.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in San Marino
Abortion in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, abortion is a criminal offense.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Sierra Leone
Abortion in South Africa
Abortion in South Africa is legal by request (no reason needs to be provided) when the pregnancy is under 13 weeks.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in South Africa
Abortion in Tennessee
Abortion in Tennessee is illegal from fertilization, except to "prevent the death of the pregnant woman or to prevent serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman".
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Tennessee
Abortion in the United States
Abortion is a divisive issue in the United States.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in the United States
Abortion in Vermont
Abortion in Vermont is legal at all stages of pregnancy.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Vermont
Abortion in West Virginia
Abortion in West Virginia is illegal except in cases of rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities, and when the mother’s life is at risk from a pregnancy.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in West Virginia
Abortion in Zambia
In Zambia, abortion is legal if the pregnancy would threaten the mother's life or physical or mental health or those of existing children, or if it would cause a birth defect.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion in Zambia
Abortion law
Abortion laws vary widely among countries and territories, and have changed over time.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion law
Abortion-rights movements
Abortion-rights movements are movements that advocate for legal access to induced abortion services, including elective abortion. Reproductive rights and abortion-rights movements are abortion-rights movement.
See Reproductive rights and Abortion-rights movements
Abstinence-only sex education
Abstinence-only sex education (also known as sexual risk avoidance education) is a form of sex education that teaches not having sex outside of marriage.
See Reproductive rights and Abstinence-only sex education
Advocacy
Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions.
See Reproductive rights and Advocacy
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
See Reproductive rights and Africa
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
See Reproductive rights and African Americans
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter) is an international human rights instrument that is intended to promote and protect human rights and basic freedoms in the African continent.
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African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.
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African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom
African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom was an American-based reproductive rights organization that formed in 1990.
See Reproductive rights and African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom
Age of consent
The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts.
See Reproductive rights and Age of consent
Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto (藤森 謙也, Hepburn:,; born 28 July 1938) is a Peruvian former politician, professor, and engineer who served as President of Peru from 1990 to 2000.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Anti-abortion movements
Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality.
See Reproductive rights and Anti-abortion movements
Anti-abortion violence
Anti-abortion violence is violence committed against individuals and organizations that perform abortions or provide abortion counseling.
See Reproductive rights and Anti-abortion violence
Antinatalism
Antinatalism or anti-natalism is a family of philosophical views that are critical of reproduction — they consider coming into existence as it exists presently is immoral.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
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Arson
Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.
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Asexual reproduction
Asexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes.
See Reproductive rights and Asexual reproduction
Assassination of George Tiller
On May 31, 2009, George Tiller, an American physician from Wichita, Kansas, who was one of the few doctors in the United States to perform late terminations of pregnancy, was murdered by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion extremist.
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Attempted murder
Attempted murder is a crime of attempt in various jurisdictions.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.
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Australian Senate
The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.
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Aymara people
The Aymara or Aimara (aymara), people are an indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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Beijing Declaration
The Beijing Declaration was a resolution adopted by the UN at the end of the Fourth World Conference on Women on 15 September 1995.
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Beverley Lawrence Beech
Beverley Ann Lawrence Beech (12 November 1944 – 25 February 2023) was a Welsh author, chair of the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) from 1977 to 2017 and an active campaigner against the medicalisation of pregnancy and birth.
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Birth control
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy. Reproductive rights and Birth control are sexual health.
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Birth control movement in the United States
The birth control movement in the United States was a social reform campaign beginning in 1914 that aimed to increase the availability of contraception in the U.S. through education and legalization.
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Bomb
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
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Bride kidnapping
Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts and rapes the woman he wishes to marry.
See Reproductive rights and Bride kidnapping
Bride price
Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.
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Brunei
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
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Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Caucasus
The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
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CBC News
CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
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Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is a global legal advocacy organization, headquartered in New York City, that seeks to advance reproductive rights, such as abortion.
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Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
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Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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Charter of the United Nations
The Charter of the United Nations (UN) is the foundational treaty of the United Nations.
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Child marriage
Child marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, between a child and an adult, or between a child and another child.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Christian terrorism
Christian terrorism, a form of religious terrorism, refers to terrorist acts which are committed by groups or individuals who profess Christian motivations or goals.
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Chromosome
A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
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Coercion
Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party.
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Combatant
Combatant is the legal status of a person entitled to directly participate in hostilities during an armed conflict, and may be intentionally targeted by an adverse party for their participation in the armed conflict.
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Combined oral contraceptive pill
The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women.
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Comprehensive sex education
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is a sex education instruction method based on a curriculum that aims to give students the holistic knowledge, attitudes, skills, and values to make healthy and informed choices in their sexual lives. Reproductive rights and Comprehensive sex education are sexual health.
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Compulsory sterilization
Compulsory sterilization, also known as forced or coerced sterilization, refers to any government-mandated program to involuntarily sterilize a specific group of people.
See Reproductive rights and Compulsory sterilization
Condom
A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Reproductive rights and condom are sexual health.
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Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion.
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Conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.
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Constitutional right
A constitutional right can be a prerogative or a duty, a power or a restraint of power, recognized and established by a sovereign state or union of states.
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.
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Council of Europe
The Council of Europe (CoE; Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
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Crimes against humanity
Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.
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Culture
Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
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David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer.
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De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
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Decree 770
Decree 770 was a decree of the communist Romanian government of Nicolae Ceaușescu, signed in 1967.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
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Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a transnational feminist network of scholars, researchers and activists from the global South.
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Discrimination
Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.
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Djibouti
Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east.
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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
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Dubay v. Wells
Dubay v. Wells, or the Matt Dubay child support case, was an American legal case in 2006 between Matt Dubay and his ex-girlfriend Lauren Wells, both of Saginaw Township, Michigan.
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Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
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El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.
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Ellen Sauerbrey
Ellen Richmond Sauerbrey (born September 9, 1937) is an American politician from Maryland and the former head of the United States Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
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Emergency contraception
Emergency contraception (EC) is a birth control measure, used after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy.
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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
The global pandemic of HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) began in 1981, and is an ongoing worldwide public health issue.
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Epistemic community
An epistemic community is a network of professionals with recognized knowledge and skill in a particular issue-area.
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Eric Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American domestic terrorist convicted for a series of bombings across the Southern United States between 1996 and 1998, which killed two people and injured over 100 others, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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Eritrea
Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.
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Ethics
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
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Ethnic conflict
An ethnic conflict is a conflict between two or more ethnic groups.
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Eugenics
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.
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Euphemism
A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.
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European Convention on Human Rights
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe.
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European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) is a committee of the European Parliament.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Evolving capacities
Evolving capacities is the concept in which education, child development and youth development programs led by adults take into account the capacities of the child or youth to exercise rights on their own behalf.
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Family planning
Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Reproductive rights and Family planning are women's rights.
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Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva.
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Feminism
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Reproductive rights and Feminism are women's rights.
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Feminist movement
The feminist movement, also known as the women's movement, refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by inequality between men and women.
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Forced abortion
Forced abortion is a form of reproductive coercion that refers to the act of compelling a woman to undergo termination of a pregnancy against her will or without explicit consent. Reproductive rights and Forced abortion are women's rights.
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Forced fatherhood
Forced fatherhood or imposed paternity, occurs when a man becomes a father against his will or without his consent. Reproductive rights and Forced fatherhood are men's rights.
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Forced marriage
Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without their consent or against their will.
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Forced pregnancy
Forced pregnancy is the practice of forcing a woman or girl to become pregnant or remain pregnant against her will. Reproductive rights and Forced pregnancy are Midwifery.
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Fundamental rights
Fundamental rights are a group of rights that have been recognized by a high degree of protection from encroachment.
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Gang rape
In scholarly literature and criminology, gang rape, also called serial gang rape, party rape, group rape, or multiple perpetrator rape,Ullman, S. E. (2013).
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Gay Star News
Gay Star News (GSN) is a news website focused on events related to and concerning the global LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) community.
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Gender equality
Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations, and needs equally, regardless of gender.
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Gender role
A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.
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Genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.
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Genotype
The genotype of an organism is its complete set of genetic material.
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Gonad
A gonad, sex gland, or reproductive gland is a mixed gland that produces the gametes and sex hormones of an organism.
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Guillotine
A guillotine is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading.
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Guttmacher Institute
The Guttmacher Institute is a research and policy NGO that aims to improve sexual health and expand reproductive rights worldwide.
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Health professional
A health professional, healthcare professional, or healthcare worker (sometimes abbreviated HCW) is a provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience.
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
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Holy See
The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.
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Homosexuality
Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.
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Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.
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Honor killing
An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the family by the victim.
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Hormone therapy
Hormone therapy or hormonal therapy is the use of hormones in medical treatment.
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Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
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Human overpopulation
Human overpopulation (or human population overshoot) describes a concern that human populations may become too large to be sustained by their environment or resources in the long term. Reproductive rights and human overpopulation are population ecology.
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Human reproduction
Human reproduction is sexual reproduction that results in human fertilization to produce a human offspring.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.
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Indigenous peoples of Peru
The Indigenous peoples of Peru, or Native Peruvians, comprise a large number of ethnic groups who inhabit territory in present-day Peru.
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Infibulation
Infibulation is the ritual removal of the vulva and its suturing, a practice found mainly in northeastern Africa, particularly in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan.
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Institute of Development Studies
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a research and learning organisation affiliated with the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, and based on its campus in Falmer, East Sussex.
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Institutionalisation
In sociology, institutionalisation (or institutionalization) is the process of embedding some conception (for example a belief, norm, social role, particular value or mode of behavior) within an organization, social system, or society as a whole.
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International community
The international community is a term used in geopolitics and international relations to refer to a broad group of people and governments of the world.
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International Conference on Population and Development
The United Nations coordinated an International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, on 5–13 September 1994.
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights of individuals, including the right to life, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, electoral rights and rights to due process and a fair trial.
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International human rights instruments
International human rights instruments are the treaties and other international texts that serve as legal sources for international human rights law and the protection of human rights in general.
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International law
International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.
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International organization
An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its own legal personality, such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and NATO.
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Intersex Human Rights Australia
Intersex Human Rights Australia (IHRA) is a voluntary organisation for intersex people that promotes the human rights and bodily autonomy of intersex people in Australia, and provides education and information services.
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Intimate relationship
An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves emotional or physical closeness between people and may include sexual intimacy and feelings of romance or love.
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Ipas (organization)
Ipas is an international, non-governmental organization that seeks to increase access to safe abortions and contraception.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Istanbul Convention
The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention, is a human rights treaty of the Council of Europe opposing violence against women and domestic violence which was opened for signature on 11 May 2011, in Istanbul, Turkey.
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James Charles Kopp
James Charles Kopp (born August 2, 1954) is an American who was convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of Barnett Slepian, an American physician from Amherst, New York who performed abortions.
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Jamshid Momtaz
Jamshid Momtaz (born 18 June 1942 in İzmir) is an Iranian jurist and academic.
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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS;, ONUSIDA) is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
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Journal of Economic Perspectives
The Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) is an economic journal published by the American Economic Association.
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Judgement
Judgement (or judgment) (in legal context, known as adjudication) is the evaluation of given circumstances to make a decision.
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Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow (Lipschultz; December 18, 1937 – June 6, 2014) was an American attorney, author, activist and feminist.
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Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.
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Kuwait
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.
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Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Leilani Muir
Leilani Marietta (O'Malley) Muir (July 15, 1944 – March 14, 2016), previously named Leilani Marie Scorah, was the first person to file a successful lawsuit against the Alberta government for wrongful sterilization under the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta.
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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List of population concern organizations
This is a list of organisations who promote a moderation of the size of the human population.
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Looting
Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.
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Malawi
Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.
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Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Maputo Protocol
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol, is an international human rights instrument established by the African Union that went into effect in 2005.
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Marie-Louise Giraud
Marie-Louise Giraud (17 November 1903 – 30 July 1943) was one of the last women to be executed in France.
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Marital rape
Marital rape or spousal rape is the act of sexual intercourse with one's spouse without the spouse's consent.
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Marry-your-rapist law
A marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her.
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Maternal death
Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. Reproductive rights and maternal death are Midwifery.
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Men's movement
The men's movement is a social movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, primarily in Western countries, which consists of groups and organizations of men and their allies who focus on gender issues and whose activities range from self-help and support to lobbying and activism. Reproductive rights and men's movement are men's rights.
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Menopause
Menopause, also known as the climacteric, is the time when menstrual periods permanently stop, marking the end of reproduction.
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Menstrual cycle
The menstrual cycle is a series of natural changes in hormone production and the structures of the uterus and ovaries of the female reproductive system that makes pregnancy possible. Reproductive rights and menstrual cycle are Midwifery.
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Military occupation
Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside of the legal boundaries of that ruling power's own sovereign territory.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.
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Murder of David Gunn
On March 10, 1993, Dr.
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Natalism
Natalism (also called pronatalism or the pro-birth position) is a policy paradigm or personal value that promotes the reproduction of human life as an important objective of humanity and therefore advocates high birthrate.
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National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization.
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National Population Program
The National Population Program (Programa Nacional de Población), known as the National Program for Reproductive Health and Family Planning (Programa Nacional de Salud Reproductiva y Planificación Familiar (PNSRPF)) from 1996 to 1998, was a project conducted in Peru in through the 1990s to reduce population growth as a way of meeting international demographic standards.
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Natural family planning
Natural family planning (NFP) comprises the family planning methods approved by the Catholic Church and some Protestant denominations for both achieving and postponing or avoiding pregnancy.
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Natural rights and legal rights
Some philosophers distinguish two types of rights, natural rights and legal rights.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
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Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu (– 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who served as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989.
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Non-binding resolution
A non-binding resolution is a motion adopted by a deliberative body that does not enact a law or a substantive rule, and is simply used to make known what the opinions of that body are in relation to a certain fact or event.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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Northeast Africa
Northeast Africa, or Northeastern Africa, or Northern East Africa as it was known in the past, is a geographic regional term used to refer to the countries of Africa situated in and around the Red Sea.
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Northern Region (Ghana)
The Northern Region is one of the sixteen regions of Ghana.
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Obstetric fistula
Obstetric fistula is a medical condition in which a hole develops in the birth canal as a result of childbirth.
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
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One-child policy
The one-child policy (p) was a population planning initiative in China implemented between 1979 and 2015 to curb the country's population growth by restricting many families to a single child. Reproductive rights and one-child policy are population ecology.
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Oral contraceptive pill
Oral contraceptives, abbreviated OCPs, also known as birth control pills, are medications taken by mouth for the purpose of birth control.
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Overcrowding
Overcrowding or crowding is the condition where more people are located within a given space than is considered tolerable from a safety and health perspective.
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Overpopulation
Overpopulation or overabundance is a phenomenon in which a species' population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment. Reproductive rights and Overpopulation are population ecology.
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Pandemic
A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has a sudden increase in cases and spreads across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.
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Paper abortion
Paper abortion, also known as a financial abortion, male abortion or a statutory abortion, is the proposed ability of the biological father, before the birth of the child, to opt out of any rights, privileges, and responsibilities toward the child, including financial support.
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Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.
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Parental leave
Parental leave, or family leave, is an employee benefit available in almost all countries.
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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
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Paul Jennings Hill
Paul Jennings Hill (February 6, 1954 – September 3, 2003) was an American minister, religious extremist, and anti-abortion terrorist who murdered physician John Britton and Britton's bodyguard, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Barrett, in 1994.
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Pension
A pension is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work.
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
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Peter Knight (murderer)
Peter James Knight (born 1 January 1954) is an Australian criminal who murdered a security guard in a Melbourne abortion clinic.
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Phenotype
In genetics, the phenotype is the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism.
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Planned Parenthood
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization, p. 18.
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Population Matters
Population Matters, formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust, is a UK-based charity that addresses population size and its effects on environmental sustainability.
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Post-abortion care
Post-abortion care (PAC) is treatment and counseling for post-abortion women.
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Pregnancy
Pregnancy is the time during which one or more offspring develops (gestates) inside a woman's uterus (womb).
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Pregnancy from rape
Pregnancy is a potential result of rape.
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Premarital sex
Premarital sex is sexual activity which is practiced by people before they are married.
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Progressive Era
The Progressive Era (1901–1929) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country.
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Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
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Quechua people
Quechua people or Quichua people may refer to any of the indigenous peoples of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru.
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Quiverfull
Quiverfull is a Christian theological position that sees large families as a blessing from God.
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Racism
Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Rape of males
Some victims of rape or other sexual violence incidents are male.
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Raptio
Raptio (in archaic or literary English rendered as rape) is a Latin term for, among several other meanings for senses of "taking", the large-scale abduction of women: kidnapping for marriage, concubinage or sexual slavery.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
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Reproductive coercion
Reproductive coercion (also called coerced reproduction, reproductive control or reproductive abuse) is a collection of behaviors that interfere with decision-making related to reproductive health. Reproductive rights and reproductive coercion are sexual health.
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Reproductive Freedom for All
Reproductive Freedom for All, formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America and commonly known as simply NARAL, is a non-profit 501(c)(4) organization in the United States that engages in lobbying, political action, and advocacy efforts to oppose restrictions on abortion, to expand access to abortion and birth control, and to support paid parental leave and protection against pregnancy discrimination.
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Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition
The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) is a global partnership of public, private and non-governmental organizations.
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Reproductive justice
Reproductive justice is a critical feminist framework that was invented as a response to United States reproductive politics. Reproductive rights and reproductive justice are Midwifery and women's rights.
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Reservation (law)
A reservation in international law is a caveat to a state's acceptance of a treaty.
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Right to health
The right to health is the economic, social, and cultural right to a universal minimum standard of health to which all individuals are entitled.
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Right to privacy
The right to privacy is an element of various legal traditions that intends to restrain governmental and private actions that threaten the privacy of individuals.
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Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973),.
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Romani people
The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
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Romanian orphans
Orphanhood in Romania became prevalent as a consequence of the Socialist Republic of Romania's natalist policy under Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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Romanian revolution
The Romanian revolution (Revoluția română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily within the Eastern Bloc.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Sara Dubow
Sara Dubow is an American professor of history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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Sex
Sex is the biological trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing organism produces male or female gametes.
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Sex and the law
Sex and the law deals with the regulation by law of human sexual activity.
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Sex education
Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, safe sex, and birth control, sexual health, reproductive health, emotional relations and responsibilities, age of consent, and reproductive rights. Reproductive rights and sex education are sexual health.
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Sex organ
A sex organ, also known as a reproductive organ, is a part of an organism that is involved in sexual reproduction.
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Sex ratio
A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population.
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Sex trafficking
Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
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Sex-selective abortion
Sex-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the infant.
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Sexual and reproductive health
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a field of research, health care, and social activism that explores the health of an individual's reproductive system and sexual well-being during all stages of their life. Reproductive rights and sexual and reproductive health are Midwifery and sexual health.
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Sexual and reproductive health and rights or SRHR is the concept of human rights applied to sexuality and reproduction.
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Sexual Sterilization Act
In 1928, the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada, enacted the Sexual Sterilization Act.
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Sexual violence
Sexual violence is any harmful or unwanted sexual act—or attempt to obtain a sexual act through violence or coercion—or an act directed against a person's sexuality without their consent, by any individual regardless of their relationship to the victim.
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Sexually transmitted infection
A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
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Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
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Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
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Socialist Republic of Romania
The Socialist Republic of Romania (Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989 (see Revolutions of 1989).
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Socioeconomics
Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.
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Soft law
The term soft law refers to quasi-legal instruments (like recommendations or guidelines) which do not have any legally binding force, or whose binding force is somewhat weaker than the binding force of traditional law.
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Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.
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Special-interest terrorism
Special-interest terrorism and single-issue terrorism (Canadian Security Intelligence Service).
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Sperm donation
Sperm donation is the provision by a man of his sperm with the intention that it be used in the artificial insemination or other "fertility treatment" of one or more women who are not his sexual partners in order that they may become pregnant by him.
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Street children
Street children are poor or homeless children who live on the streets of a city, town, or village.
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Studies in Family Planning
Studies in Family Planning is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Population Council.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the full title of which is the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, is a 1956 United Nations treaty which builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention, which is still operative and which proposed to secure the abolition of slavery and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, which banned forced or compulsory labour, by banning debt bondage, serfdom, child marriage, servile marriage, and child servitude.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Surgery
Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (i.e., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or improve aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars or skin tags) or foreign bodies.
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Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Tax on childlessness
The tax on childlessness (translit) was a natalist policy imposed in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries, starting in the 1940s.
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Technology
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
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Teenage pregnancy
Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in a female adolescent under the age of 20.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Thomas C. Leonard
Thomas C. Leonard is a historian of economics and scholarly authority on American economic life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries at Princeton.
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Timeline of reproductive rights legislation
This is a timeline of reproductive rights legislation, a chronological list of laws and legal decisions affecting human reproductive rights.
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Toxin
A toxin is a naturally occurring poison produced by metabolic activities of living cells or organisms.
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Transgender health care
Transgender health care includes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental health conditions for transgender individuals.
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Treaty
A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement concluded by sovereign states in international law.
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Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
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UN Women
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity charged with working for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
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UNICEF
UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
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Unintended pregnancy
Unintended pregnancies are pregnancies that are mistimed or unwanted at the time of conception, also known as unplanned pregnancies.
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
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United Nations Human Rights Committee
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a treaty body composed of 18 experts, established by a 1966 human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
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United Nations Population Fund
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, is a UN agency aimed at improving reproductive and maternal health worldwide.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.
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Unsafe abortion
An unsafe abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by people lacking the necessary skills, or in an environment lacking minimal medical standards, or both.
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V. C. vs. Slovakia
V.C. vs Slovakia was the first case in which the European Court for Human Rights ruled in favor of a Romani woman who was a victim of forced sterilization in the state hospital in Slovakia.
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Vichy France
Vichy France (Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was the French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.
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Violence against women
Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), is violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls. Reproductive rights and violence against women are women's rights.
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War
War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups.
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Women's health
Women's health differs from that of men's health in many unique ways.
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Women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.
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World Conference on Women, 1995
The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China. Reproductive rights and World Conference on Women, 1995 are women's rights.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
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Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.
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Yogyakarta Principles
The Yogyakarta Principles is a document about human rights in the areas of sexual orientation and gender identity that was published as the outcome of an international meeting of human rights groups in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2006.
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Youth
Youth is the time of life when one is young.
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Zeid bin Ra'ad
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad bin Zeid al-Hussein (زيد ابن رعد الحسين; born 26 January 1964) is a Jordanian former diplomat who is the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania.
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See also
Abortion-rights movement
- Abortion fund
- Abortion-rights movement in the United States
- Abortion-rights movements
- Clinic escort
- Death of Caroline Mwatha
- Green Wave (abortion rights)
- Green scarf
- In the name of God (sculpture)
- Live Free or Die (2000 film)
- March for Women's Lives (2004)
- Movimento Democrático de Mulheres
- Reproductive rights
- Rock for Choice
- ShoutYourAbortion
- Stop the Bans
- Veil Act
- West Coast offensive
- Women's March for the Decriminalization of Abortion
Men's rights
- Airline seating sex discrimination controversy
- Being a Man Festival
- Child support
- Circumcision
- Courtesy tenure
- Domestic violence
- Fathers' rights
- Forced circumcision
- Forced fatherhood
- G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board
- Groom kidnapping
- Hermesmann v. Seyer
- Husband selling
- Male expendability
- Man's Rights in the Family Party
- Manosphere
- Masculism
- Men Going Their Own Way
- Men's liberation movement
- Men's movement
- Men's rights activists
- Men's rights movement
- Men's rights movement in India
- Men's spaces
- NotAllMen
- Paternal rights and abortion
- Prevalence of circumcision
- Reproductive rights
- Stopps v Just Ladies Fitness (Metrotown) Ltd
- The Male Machine
- The Myth of Male Power
- The Red Pill
- Violence against men
- Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
- Women Against Feminism
References
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