Annotation:
This briefing paper focuses on certain issues that are universal to all adolescent girls - such as education, contraception, sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, abortion, and access to reproductive health care - and those that are of particular regional significance such as early marriage and female circumcision/female genital mutilation. The paper identifies the international legal standards that are relevant and recommends a critical legal and policy measure that all governments should strive to achieve. Finally, this paper presents a comprehensive summary of post-International Conference on Population and Development laws or policies that represent a "best practice". [Descriptors: Reproductive Rights - HIV/AIDS, International]