Interact Worldwide Rights
WHAT IS A RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH?
A rights-based approach to development is a framework that allows poor and marginalised people to demand as a 'right' the basic conditions that allow them to live in dignity.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Interact works with particularly marginalised people, who often suffer the most rights abuses and who have particular barriers to attaining their reproductive and sexual rights. We focus our work on those rights that affect sexual and reproductive health and HIV and AIDS, such as:
- Right to reproductive health care including: measures to promote safe motherhood and the right to safe abortion.
- Right to self determination including: the right to plan one's family, the right to be free from all forms of violence and the right to marry freely and without coercion.
- Right to a safe and pleasurable sex life including: the right to information related to sexuality and the right to freely choose one’s sexual partner.
- HIV-related rights including: the right to equality and non-discrimination, the right to participate in political and development processes, the right to privacy and the right to have a safe pleasurable sex life and the choice to bear children.
- Greater Involvement of People Living with AIDS (GIPA)
- International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
- The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
- The Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing).
ADVOCACY FOR RIGHTS
In the UK, Interact Worldwide has been working to highlight the need for policy on sexual rights in international development. Find out more here.
