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POLICY’s Human Rights Approach

POLICY’s Human Rights Approach. 1. Identify the Health Problem: collect and analyze maternal/reproductive health/HIV data. Reports from UN and NGOs Human Rights Treaty Body Reports Shadow Reports Data of Health Service Failures (ie. high rates of maternal morality or abortion)

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POLICY’s Human Rights Approach

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  1. POLICY’s Human Rights Approach

  2. 1. Identify the Health Problem: collect and analyze maternal/reproductive health/HIV data • Reports from UN and NGOs • Human Rights Treaty Body Reports • Shadow Reports • Data of Health Service Failures (ie. high rates of maternal morality or abortion) • Testimony of Specific Health Rights Abuses (ie. Testimony at Women’s Tribunal at 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference) • WHO and UNICEF Global Maternal and Reproductive Health Indicators

  3. 2. Identify national norm/policy • Legal norms: • national laws • administrative standards • implementing regulations • judicial decisions related to MH/RH/HIV/AIDS • workplace policies • Social norms • traditions • beliefs • standard operating procedures

  4. 3. Compare with international Human Rights standard • Does a country’s laws or social norms derogate international human rights standards found in a human rights agreement binding on the country? • Human Rights Matrix • Has a certain country signed and ratified a human rights treaty relevant to MH/RH/HIV/AIDS? • Did the country participate in the Cairo and Beijing World Population Conferences? • What are the RH/MH/HIV/AIDS-related provisions of all major human rights accords?

  5. 4. Research human rights solution • Use human rights standards to develop effective and equitable RH/MH/HIV/AIDS policies: • Find the least rights-restrictive way to address a public health need • Include the participation of people affected by the policy. • Use POLICY’s experience

  6. 5. Propose new rights-based policy and advocate for adoption • Health advocates can use human rights • as a way to identify discrete issues for advocacy • as language to convince policymakers to adopt or change a policy • as a reminder for policymakers of their obligations and the international community's scrutiny of these obligations • Discover which government agencies have a duty to provide remedies to reproductive or health rights violations

  7. Human Rights Approach Step Identify national norm/policy Compare with universal Human Rights standard Propose new rights-based policy and advocate for adoption POLICY Intermediate Result IR 3 Disseminate and use the human rights information gathered IR 3.1 Improve critical information base in a country IR 1 Involve human rights groups in networks Form civilian surveillance committees IR 2 Ensure planning guidelines adhere to human rights laws Provide model policies and legislation Propose specific laws to protect rights IR 4 Conduct human rights and training Contribute human rights curricula 6. Report on results achieved according to SO/IRs

  8. The Human Rights Approach • 1. Identify the Health Problem: collect and analyze maternal/reproductive health/HIV data • 2. Identify national norm/policy • 3. Compare with international Human Rights standard • 4. Research human rights solution • 5. Propose new rights-based policy and advocate for adoption and… • 6. Report on results achieved according to SO/IRs

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