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===Beijing Platform=== The 1995 [[Fourth World Conference on Women]] in Beijing, in its [[non-binding resolution|non-binding]] [[Beijing Declaration|Declaration]] and [[Beijing Platform for Action|Platform for Action]], supported the Cairo Programme's definition of reproductive health, but established a broader context of reproductive rights:<ref name="COOK" /> <blockquote>The human rights of women include their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality, including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. Equal relationships between women and men in matters of sexual relations and reproduction, including full respect for the integrity of the person, require mutual respect, consent and shared responsibility for sexual behavior and its consequences [para. 96].</blockquote> The Beijing Platform demarcated twelve interrelated critical areas of the human rights of women that require advocacy. The Platform framed women's reproductive rights as "indivisible, universal and inalienable human rights."<ref name="BUNCH">{{cite journal |doi=10.1086/495143 |jstor=3175048 |title=Beijing '95: Moving Women's Human Rights from Margin to Center |journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=200β4 |year=1996 |last1=Bunch |first1=Charlotte |last2=Fried |first2=Susana |s2cid=144075825 }}</ref> The platform for the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women included a section that denounced gender-based violence and included forced sterilization as a human rights violation.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Women, Violence, and the Human Rights System. Women, Gender, and Human Rights: A Global Perspective|last=Merry|first=S.E. |editor=M. Agosin|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2001|location=New Brunswick|pages=83β97}}</ref> However, the international community at large has not confirmed that women have a right to reproductive healthcare and in ensuing years since the 1995 conference, countries have proposed language to weaken reproductive and sexual rights.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nowicka|first=Wanda|date=2011|title=Sexual and reproductive rights and the human rights agenda: controversial and contested|journal=Reproductive Health Matters|volume=19|issue=38|pages=119β128|doi=10.1016/s0968-8080(11)38574-6|pmid=22118146|s2cid=206112752|issn=0968-8080}}</ref> This conference also referenced for the first time indigenous rights and women's rights at the same time, combining them into one category needing specific representation.<ref>{{Cite book|title={{title case|INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA : gender and ethnicity in peru, mexico, and bolivia}}|author1=Rousseau, Stephanie|author2=Morales Hudon, Anahi|date=2019|publisher=PALGRAVE MACMILLAN|isbn=978-1349957194|oclc=1047563400}}</ref> Reproductive rights are highly politicized, making it difficult to enact legislation.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Reproductive politics : what everyone needs to know|last=Solinger, Rickie|date=27 February 2013|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199811458|oclc=830323649}}</ref>
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