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My Body, My Voice, My Choice: Launching UNFPA’s 2021 State of World Population Report
“As we’re talking, the bodily autonomy of millions of women and girls around the world is still denied,” said Klaus Simoni Pedersen, Acting Director of the Division of Communications and Strategic Partnerships for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at the recent U.S. launch event of the
2021 UNFPA State of the World Population report, hosted by the Wilson Center and UNFPA. The report,
“The right to the autonomy of our bodies means that we have the power and agency to make choices without fear of violence or having someone else decide for us,” said Sarah B. Barnes, Project Director of the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative. It is “the power to say yes and the right to say no,” said Pedersen. The report focuses on three dimensions of bodily autonomy: the right to decide whether to have sex, use contraception, or seek health care.