Annotation:
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Charter on Sexual and Reproductive Rights provides an ethical framework within which IPPF carries out its mission. It is an integral activity of Vision 2000, IPPF's Strategic Plan, which documents the most important issues, goals and programmatic challenges that the Federation and individual family planning associations must address in the coming years. The Charter is legal in character, as it is based on recognized international human rights law (UN charters, conventions etc.) which refer to relations between the state and its population and to state obligations to the population. In this Charter on Sexual and Reproductive Rights, IPPF has taken some of these concepts, and has supplemented them with principles relating to sexual and reproductive health. By drawing on relevant extracts from international human rights instruments, the Charter demonstrates the legitimacy of sexual and reproductive rights as key human rights issues. Because this Charter is sourced in internationally recognized conventions, the task of identifying human rights violations is made easier. [Descriptors: Reproductive Rights - Overview, International]