This monitoring report assesses the progress that has been made with respect to those agenda items concerning gender equity and women’s empowerment in Cambodia. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) continues to be recognised as a prevalent and urgent concern in Cambodia. Thus, an evaluation of the implementation of the National Action Plan to Prevent […]

In our bid to ensure that the Fiji Government remains committed and accountable towards the promises made in Cairo, the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM) decided to carry out a research study that focussed on the state of cancer services, screening and treatment in Fiji because of the high prevalence rate of reproductive cancers affecting […]

For many youth around the world, and especially unmarried young women and those marginalised by ethnicity or other markers of inequality, the right to reproductive health remains elusive. The objective of this study was to examine the access youth from ethnic minority populations have to basic sexual and reproductive health services. The study also sought […]

This study was carried out via a strategic desk review, 14 Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) involving 104 adolescents and 29 parents/teachers, and 4 In-depth Interviews (IDIs) with key informants from various ministries/agencies. The results from the desk review, FGDs and IDIs found that despite the milestones achieved by Malaysia in the area of sexual reproductive […]

The aim of this report is to examine India’s Family Planning programme; its objectives, its achievements, its failures against the ICPD POA, and to offer recommendations. A major part of the document seeks to bring into focus the results of monitoring efforts by civil society organisations in the States of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, […]

Every sixth person or 15.7 percent of the population in Mongolia is a young person between 15 – 24 years of age. These young people faces a lot of sexual and reproductive health issues among which include high teenage pregnancy, STI and HIV infection. Forty-two percent of the STI infected population are young people aged […]

This is the Nepali translation of the Country Profile on Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Nepal. For the English version, click here.  Nepal is a land-locked country located at the foothills of the Himalayas. The country is bordered by India to the east, south, west, and China to the north. Nepal is rectangular […]

This is the Nepali translation of the Country Profile on Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Nepal. For the English version, click here.  Nepal is a land-locked country located at the foothills of the Himalayas. The country is bordered by India to the east, south, west, and China to the north. Nepal is rectangular […]

The practice of child marriage in Malaysia enjoys a status of legality with registration of marriages involving those below 18 sanctioned explicitly and given exceptions under Islamic and civil laws. According to the 2010 Population and Housing Census, there were 152,835 persons aged 15-19 in a marriage, and unlike in some countries where the practice […]

Pakistan launched its family planning programme in mid-1950s. In 1990, the government launched a comprehensive Population Welfare Programme which became a major social action element in the provision of maternal and reproductive health services. Later, the government launched Family Planning and Primary Health Care programme (1994) and reached out to rural households through Lady Health […]