Rights on having children
Updated: 30 September 2022
Manuela Leporesi
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Credits
Tips and information
Everyone has the right:
- To choose whether to have children or not
- To decide freely the number, spacing and timing of children
- Everyone has the right to be able to get the information, education and support to make these decisions
- Decisions should be based on the best information that is available
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Question and Answers
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Publications
All →WHO recommendations on care for women with diabetes during pregnancy
Selected practice recommendations for contraceptive use: executive summary, 4th ed.
Consolidated guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage
Bleeding after birth: course on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage
Reports
All →Joint evaluation of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (SDG3-GAP): Management response
Joint Evaluability Assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (2020): Management response update
Joint Evaluability Assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (2020): Management response
Joint Evaluability Assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (2020): Report
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