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ICESCR Article 12 - The right to the highest attainable standard of health.
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CEDAW - 37
The State party should: (a) Take steps to expedite the adoption of the maternal and child health bill; (b) Increase access to obstetric health services for women, including prenatal and postnatal services, on all atolls and islands of the State party, in particular for rural women, by ensuring effective access to universal health insurance and by increasing the number of skilled health-care personnel; (c) Ensure age-appropriate education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including information about available contraceptive methods and family planning, in order to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and early pregnancies and remove restrictions applied in practice by health-care personnel to unmarried girls; (d) Collect data and conduct research on the prevalence of unsafe and illegal abortions, disaggregated by age and geographical location.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenÂ
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