Promotion and Protection of Women's Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Under International Law: The Economic Covenant and the Women's Convention

This article notes that health and human rights impacts of both sexuality and reproductive health are now widely known. It analyzes the role states can and should play in ensuring the realization of women's sexual and reproductive health as part of their responsibility toward the promotion and protection of women's health. In particular, the author discusses how provisions in both the Economic Covenant and the Women's Convention - the potential of which has long been underestimated in this area - could be used to eliminate the causes of gender-related violations of the right to health. [Descriptors: Reproductive Health - Overview, International]