Topic: Reproductive Health
Country: Chad
Delegate Name: Brooke Blackwell
School: Royal Oak High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Chad position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
As a country where roughly 47% of the nation’s population is below the poverty line, it is more difficult for a nation such as Chad to improve women’s reproductive rights when barriers for better and healthier reproduction have existed for centuries. However, it is Chad’s mission to improve and stress the importance of reproductive rights for women. It is the duty of every nation’s government to engage policy makers to promote progressive ideas (while keeping culture and traditions in account) and eliminate proposals that are harmful or discriminatory to women’s health. An important question for all nations to consider is, “How can our government allocate more funds into funding for reproductive health care at no expense of the taxpayer?” On the more cultural side of things, “How do nations respect cultural traditions when creating legislature concerning women’s health?’ One of the more simple ways to promote women’s health is through education. Making it an educational requirement to provide some sort of sexual education can be extremely beneficial. Educating even one person on healthy and safe reproduction can create a ripple effect, allowing this person to pass their knowledge onto others. The UN has been extremely helpful in helping smaller nations that have less money developing programs to help protect and improve women’s reproductive rights. Chad gladly would accept any such help as long as the larger more powerful nations funding these programs are willing to discuss what works for Chad as a smaller less wealthy nation. A good resolution should set guidelines for what is acceptable reproductive based health care, what inalienable rights women should have universally, and how we can decrease the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, especially in more impoverished nations. Reproductive rights for women will take a global effort.
