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A legal perspective on reproductive health and gender-specific human rights in Nigeria

This paper looks at international provisions on reproductive rights and the obligations and duties to protect reproductive health of women in Nigeria. The concept of human rights is very fundamental to society and is based on international instruments signed and ratified by sovereign States after the Second World War. In general, these treaties have established universal standards by recognising fundamental rights and requiring governments to take action to ensure that basic rights are respected. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, efforts have been made by…