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governments have a responsibility to ensure the provision of health services which are accessible

to all including, in particular, health care relating to the gender-specific health needs of women

and disadvantaged groups.

Millennium Development Goals (2000)
In 2000, the international community agreed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of

which most relate directly or indirectly to health.

The MDGs are linked to a number of measurable indicators, thus allowing progress in achieving

the Goals to be monitored.

Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger

Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education

Goal 3 Promote gender equality & empower women Goal 4 Reduce child mortality

Goal 5 Improve maternal health

Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria & other diseases

Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development

2.5.1 Sexual and reproductive health rights

There is an increasing body of international human rights law and commentary which sets out in

authoritative terms the requirements of states to protect women’s sexual and reproductive rights.

For example, states are obliged under Article 12 CEDAW to “take all appropriate measures to

eliminate discrimination against women in the field of health care in order to ensure, on a basis of

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