JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HEALTH AND LAW

In 1999, five years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 170 countries and 200 NGOs met to examine the successes and failures of implementing the ICPD's Programme of Action (POA). This article briefly reviews the findings of this meeting. The author explains what the POA is and highlights five of its commitments to improve women's sexual and reproductive health.

This article examines whether or not a right to assisted reproduction could be upheld under international and European law. It shows that there are four types of human rights that might encompass a right to assisted reproduction: 1) the right to marry and found a family; 2) the right to privacy and family life; 3) the right to health; and 4) the right not to suffer discrimination. The author assesses arguments made for and against including a right to assisted reproduction in the first three of these categories of human rights.