Women in Asia face more difficulty obtaining sexual health services and governments need to take political action to improve their accessibility by 2015, a non-governmental organisation has said.
Asia has fallen behind international targets for reproductive health services set in 1994, according to the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (Arrow).
In a regional report,. Arrow called on respective Asian governments to work harder to meet targets set by an International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action in Cairo twenty years ago.
After 15 years of observation, Arrow found women from marginalised groups in Asia still struggle to exercise their "sexual and reproductive health and rights" - a key finding in its report published on December 24, entitled Reclaiming and Redefining Rights – ICPD+15: Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Asia.
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