| dc.creator | Gutto, Shadrack B. O. | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-14T12:12:21Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-04-14T12:12:21Z | |
| dc.date | 1980 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T12:59:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T12:59:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Gutto, Shadrack B. O. (1980) Human rights from humanitarian perspectives: an international comparative appraisal of state laws on and practice of abortion and sterilization as means of family planning. Discussion Paper 269, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/698 | |
| dc.identifier | 317443 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/1963 | |
| dc.description | The study describes and analyses the evolution and establishment
of family planning as an internationally recognized aspect of human rights
both at the level of customary social state practices and as a response to
international promotion through the United Nations and agencies. This
dialectical relations in legal norm creation and practice at international
and municipal levels is then looked at specifically with regard to the use
of abortion and sterilization as methods of family planning for humanitarian
reasons. The countries whose practice and legal provisions are analysed are
chosen on the basis of different religious, political ideology, and levels
of technological advance. The result indicates that anyone of these variables
is not conclusive in determining the official adoption and practice of
abortion or sterilization. The study generally puts a case for more liberal
and efficient use of abortion and sterilization as methods of family planning
on humanitarian, but not on reductionist abstract population policy grounds.
Most of the information analysed was collected by the author
while acting as principal investigator for the United Nations Fund for
Population Activities' project which was published in 1979 under the title;
Survey of Laws on Fertility Control. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;269 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Sexuality and Development | |
| dc.subject | Gender | |
| dc.subject | Health | |
| dc.title | Human rights from humanitarian perspectives: an international comparative appraisal of state laws on and practice of abortion and sterilization as means of family planning | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
