Journal Citation:
2(2) JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND POPULATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, 1-16 (1999).
The author seeks to show how United Nations documents have developed the definition of reproductive and sexual rights of women over the years. She elaborates on how the international consensus on reproductive rights and enabling mechanisms provide a framework for evaluating reproductive health programs and policies. The use of this framework and the possible remedial mechanisms are examined in relation to unsafe abortions, a significant global cause of illness and death, with special reference to India. The appendices to the article also provide insight in the application of the rights framework in the field of unsafe abortions and reproductive health of women. [Descriptors: Reproductive Rights - Abortion, International]