b. If the NHRI offers health insurance or other kinds of support for health care, the NHRI should ensure that this includes access to the full range of reproductive health services, including family planning and contraception. This is for example the case for the NHRIs in Uganda and Jordan. c. The NHRI should have a policy in place with respect to sexually transmitted infections, in particular HIV/ AIDS, based on human rights principles and including access to prevention, such as male and female condoms. d. The NHRI should have other relevant policies and guidelines in place, such as a policy regarding sexual harassment and a policy on non-discrimination, including on the basis of sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other status. LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS NHRIs can use this part of the mandate in several ways: 1. NHRIs could conduct a review of legislative and administrative regulations specifically focusing on reproductive rights. When considering such regulations, the benchmark should be both the relevant international human rights obligations and the national provisions as set out in, for example, the constitution. The focus could be on areas of legislation that would seem particularly relevant for the enjoyment of reproductive rights: a. One such area is family law where the NHRI could for instance look at provisions on marriage age and on equality; as set out in the next chapter, the marriage age should be identical for men and woman, and family law regulations should be devoid of provisions reinforcing the still common view of women as less valuable than men. 38 b. Another area is laws on access to quality health services; such laws and regulations should establish clear, objective and measurable standards of access, quality and cultural acceptability of healthcare services and cement the right to reproductive health services while respecting various tenets of human rights, such as the right to consent, the right to privacy even for adolescents etc. Standard setting is fundamental to strengthen the regulatory role of the state in cases where basic sexual and reproductive health services are privatized. It is important to ensure that the legislation contains sufficient safeguards so that privatization does not hamper, in any way, access to quality reproductive and sexual health services in particular by vulnerable and marginalized groups.4 4 This is among the issues raised at the ­UNFPAAsia Pacific Forum consultation 20-21 June 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, cf. the report of this meeting, p. 6.

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