A Woman' Right to Decide? The United Nations Human Rights Committee, Human Rights of Women, and Matters of Human Reproduction

The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action called upon the monitoring bodies of the international human rights treaties to include the human rights of women in their deliberations and findings. This article explores whether the Human Rights Committee sufficiently includes human rights related to the reproductive concerns of women in its work. The author argues that although the Human Rights Committee pays some attention to reproductive issues that affect women, it does not often acknowledge individual rights in this respect and as such does not fully promote and protect the dignity and human rights of women in this field.