Abstract:
The research will focus on cultural and religious challenges on women’s reproductive rights in
the case of Gondar City. Reproductive health’s rights protected, promoted and fulfilled under
international and regional human rights laws as well as national laws during use of
Contraceptives. What are the factors on women’s reproductive right? The major human rights of
women are recognized under the various international and regional human right instruments.
Particularly, reproductive health right, violence against women, female genital mutilation, early
marriage and abduction are recognized as abuses of women's rights under such human right
instruments.
In reality, reproductive right of women’s are affected due to different reasons. For instance,
accessibility of contraceptive depends on the cultural and religious contexts of individuals and
countries. In relation to this condition mostly young and unmarried people in many communities
are not allowed or expected to have sexual relationships before marriage. Having in this fact
most women have limited access to contraception, especially in relation to abortion services.
Therefore the intention of the researcher will be to assess how culture and religion impose an
impact on women’s reproductive right as well as the legal framework to respect, protect and
promote women’s reproductive right. In addition this research will analyze state obligation to
ensure the protection of women’s reproductive right.
The research will be conducted at Gondar City, through qualitative and quantitative methods.
Questioner, case study, document analysis, interview tools will be use to collect pertinent data.
All these will be done in order to effectively address the challenges of the protection of the
reproductive right of women
