The world is less than 500 days away from the targeted day to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight goals and 18 targets set by the United Nations and governments to tackle some of the worst problems that have impeded developing nations. While there has been much debate on the suitability of these targets since they were first launched in 2000 after the Millennium Summit, the culmination of this process in 2015 and the Post-2015 Development Agenda are opportunities to reflect and call for greater attention to the issues that the MDGs strived to address. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)[1][1][1] are critical to achieving the MDGs, in developing the Post-2015 Development Agenda, and in general ensuring a world that is just, equitable and inclusive, and where the marginalised, including women and girls, are empowered. Even before the MDG process in 2000, the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)[2][2][2] in 1994, which resulted in the Programme of Action (PoA), and the Fourth World Conference on Women[3][3][3] in 1995, which resulted in the Beijing Platform for Action, advocated the essentiality of these needs and rights internationally, regionally and nationally.

Introducing Religious Fundamentalism

Извор: WUNRN – 27.08.2014