Comments
This priority measure is related to priority measure 34 on the exercise of sexual rights, and complements priority measure 12, which refers to implementing comprehensive, timely and high-quality programmes of sexual and reproductive health for adolescents and young people.
Possible lines of action
1. Identify the existing gaps in legislation and regulations, or any contradictions vis-à-vis the international human rights framework that foster discrimination or that impede universal access to sexual and reproductive health services. 2. Amend legislation and regulations as necessary to ensure access to complete and comprehensive information on all the options of services for all persons, without discrimination of any kind. 3. Publicize progress in legislation and regulations on sexual and reproductive health rights and care. 4. Establish mechanisms for the enforcement of rights and for monitoring the established goals and verifying their progress and observance, nationally and regionally. 5. Mount campaigns to bring about the cultural change needed for the protection and observance of sexual and reproductive rights.
Related instruments, forums and mechanisms
Brasilia Consensus.
Santo Domingo Consensus, agreement 80 (“Enforce national and local policies and adopt preventive, punitive, protection and care measures to eliminate all forms of violence and stigma against women, girls, adolescent girls, young women, older women, indigenous and Afro-descendent women, rural women, LGBTTI persons and women with disabilities, and include the effective use of information and communications technologies with an intercultural approach in order to achieve greater inclusion and equality for all women”) and agreement 93 (“Define and develop public policies to combat discrimination and foster affirmative action on the basis of an intersectional approach that includes tackling sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, homophobia and lesbophobia”).
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Follow-up mechanism to the Convention of Belém do Pará (MESECVI).
Sustainable Development Goals, Goal 5 (“Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”), target 5.1 (“End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere”), target 5.c (“Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels”), and Goal 16 (“Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels”), especially target 16.b (“Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development”).
