Our submission to the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women on women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in times of crisis

PI’s submission highlights traditional and modern obstacles to the full and equal realisation of sexual and reproductive rights

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17th September 2020

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Privacy International responded to a call for submissions of the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls in situations of crisis.

This submission builds on PI’s research highlighting the ways in which data exploitative technologies can obstruct the realisation of sexual and reproductive rights, and research carried out by our partners on the specific manifestations of these obstacles in multiple countries of the Global South.

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PI's submission to the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women

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