The right to health in the post-2015 development paradigm

摘要

The role of human rights norms and principles in achieving developmental goals is now recognized in many influential international declarations and resolutions. With respect to women's health, the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action were instrumental in shifting the traditional focus from a population-centric approach to one that envisioned an expansive developmental agenda that enshrined gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as critical aspects. Many of the strides made in this direction were, however, undone when the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) failed to adopt a broad reference to SRHR but limited the goal to reduction of maternal mortality (MDG 5).