Direct Connection Between the U.N., the CCP and Agenda 2030:

 

Direct Connection Between the U.N., the CCP and Agenda 2030:

The International Conference on Population and 

Development, held in 1994

https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/events/pdf/expert/27/SupportingDocuments/A_CONF.171_13_Rev.1.pdf

D. Instrumentalization of women’s bodies

61. Throughout their life cycle, women’s bodies are instrumentalized and their 

biological functions and needs are stigmatized and subjected to a politicized patriarchal 

agenda. States have also often treated women instrumentally as tools with which to 

implement population programmes and policies. This is sometimes carried out through the 

use of criminal sanctions and often under the guise of protecting women’s health and safety 

and with cultural or religious justifications.

62. Much of the discrimination in access to health services and the resulting preventable 

ill health of women, including maternal mortality and morbidity and infertility, can be 

attributed to the instrumentalization of women’s bodies for political, cultural, religious and 

economic purposes.