Cultural and Religious Challenges on Reproductive Rights of Women In The Case Of Gondar City

Abstract

The research will focus on cultural and religious challenges on women’s reproductive rights in the case of Gondar City. Reproductive health’s rights protected, promoted and fulfilled under international and regional human rights laws as well as national laws during use of Contraceptives. What are the factors on women’s reproductive right? The major human rights of women are recognized under the various international and regional human right instruments. Particularly, reproductive health right, violence against women, female genital mutilation, early marriage and abduction are recognized as abuses of women's rights under such human right instruments. In reality, reproductive right of women’s are affected due to different reasons. For instance, accessibility of contraceptive depends on the cultural and religious contexts of individuals and countries. In relation to this condition mostly young and unmarried people in many communities are not allowed or expected to have sexual relationships before marriage. Having in this fact most women have limited access to contraception, especially in relation to abortion services. Therefore the intention of the researcher will be to assess how culture and religion impose an impact on women’s reproductive right as well as the legal framework to respect, protect and promote women’s reproductive right. In addition this research will analyze state obligation to ensure the protection of women’s reproductive right. The research will be conducted at Gondar City, through qualitative and quantitative methods. Questioner, case study, document analysis, interview tools will be use to collect pertinent data. All these will be done in order to effectively address the challenges of the protection of the reproductive right of women