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HYDERABAD: There is no “one-size-fits-all” solution to issues of sexual rights of an individual, thanks to regional imbalances and religious practices, Renuka Chowdhury, Minister of State for Women and Child Development, said on Monday. However, it was important that men be made equal partners in bringing about a change in the attitude to women’s rights. She was speaking at Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual health and Rights here. When it came to suppressing the sexual and reproductive rights of an individual, religious practices and traditions were used unabashedly. More than education, awareness was required to bring about the necessary change in approach. Ms. Chowdhury said educated parents were using technology to kill their daughters in the foetus and hence the skewed sex ratio, the adverse effects of which were now obvious in the otherwise affluent States of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana.“While we are using technology and communication to hurt other nations, we have failed to communicate the basic principle of gender equality to the people.” Adolescent education was an important missing link in the sexual rights as parents thought information would lead to indulgence by their children. “It is time we learnt to accept them as individuals who, in the absence of right information could throw up challenges of teenage pregnancies, HIV/AIDS and even incest. It is always easy to blame the government but this is one issue where society, too, has a responsibility. It is high time that parents and the society stood up to accept the responsibility.” Talking about future challenges, Ms. Chowdhury said surrogacy, fertility clinics indulging in unfair practices and the right of secrecy of the donor and the recipient were some issues that would have be dealt with. The Chinese Vice-Minister for Population and Family Planning, Baige Zhao, said China had adopted a comprehensive strategy on population-related issues, including women’s rights, to ensure social justice and gender equality to the marginalised and vulnerable sections, particularly the migrant population. It had encompassed population-related issues in its training and policies and was likely to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Pointing out that good policies and well thought-out developmental concepts often failed at the implementation level, Lynn Freedman of the University of Columbia said insufficient attention was paid to the question why efficient services failed on the ground.
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