title: Voluntary, human rights-based family planning: a conceptual framework.
abstract: At the 2012 Family Planning Summit in London, world leaders committed to providing effective family planning information and services to 120 million additional women and girls by the year 2020. Amid positive response, some expressed concern that the numeric goal could signal a retreat from the human rights-centered approach that underpinned the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development. Achieving the FP2020 goal will take concerted and coordinated efforts among diverse stakeholders and a new programmatic approach supported by the public health and human rights communities. This article presents a new conceptual framework designed to serve as a path toward fulfilling the FP2020 goal. This new unifying framework, which incorporates human rights laws and principles within family-planning-program and quality-of-care frameworks, brings what have been parallel lines of thought together in one construct to make human rights issues related to family planning practical.
authors.affiliation: Senior Associate, Population Council, 4301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 280, Washington, DC. 20008. At the time of the study, she was Senior Fellow, Futures Group, Washington, DC.. khardee@popcouncil.org.
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hardee
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bakamjian
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: Mariela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rodríguez
authors.forename: Win
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D005193:Family Planning Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D060728:Reproductive Health