UN report on women’s autonomy shows Africa, including South Africa, has a lot to do

In its latest report, ‘My Body is My Own: State of the World Population Report 2021’, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has revealed that, in 57 developing countries for which adequate data is available, only 55% of women are able to make fully autonomous decisions regarding health care, agreeing or refusing to have sex, and contraception. The countries concerned are located in Eastern and South Eastern Asia, Central and Southern Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the ...

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