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Access to sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) is one of the main causes we fight for. We have devoted many of our projects to this cause over the past 40 years. Médecins du Monde currently works around the world to improve access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and to ensure that users’ rights are respected.
Sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) cover fundamental aspects of a person’s life: their body, their sexuality, their health, their emotional and sexual relationships, and their parenting choices. As fundamental human rights, sexual and reproductive rights aim to promote independent living, and free and consensual sexuality, without violence or discrimination. These rights are an essential condition for progressing towards gender equality and the development of a more equitable and just society.
To this day, the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights is not effective for all. Millions of women and LGBTQI+ people suffer from discrimination which hinders their ability to fully enjoy their rights and to have access to sexual and reproductive health services.
Sexual and reproductive health rights: Médecins du Monde’s position, strategy and work.
Sexual and reproductive rights are constantly under threat and opposition to them is always vocal. They are at the heart of revisionist and conservative policies, which continue to gain ground throughout the world.
MdM fights for sexual and reproductive health rights for all, as fundamental human rights. This work falls within a broader, intersectional feminist vision that MdM upholds.
