The eighth of March is International Women's Day, and the stakes could not be higher.
This year marks a quarter century since the creation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a global blueprint for advancing the rights of women. It called for equality in all spheres of life and - building on a landmark consensus reached the previous year - it affirmed that reproductive health and rights are central to achieving that goal.
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