REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AS SPECIE OF HUMAN RIGHT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

Reproductive health is a human right as well as ecological right. These rights are guaranteed through various International Instruments as well as local legislations. Prominent among these International Instruments are the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women, American Convention on Human Right, the African Charter on Human and People’s Right and etcetera. Reproductive health has constituted a serial problem in the global community, apparently due to ignorance on the efficacy of the genius ‘human rights’ as well as ‘religion-cultural’ inclinations and practices. It is observed that both males and females are victims of the reproductive failures which made them sad. The regime of Assisted Reproductive Technology has been a welcome development in rescuing the plights of childlessness in most couples. However, some religious practices remain vehemently opposed to the available remedies ushered by technology, which is perceived as a misnomer to natural conception. The author argued that legislative provisions of state parties be made compulsorily available to the citizenry in order to set them free from religious and cultural bondages opposed to alternative means of procreation. The paper therefore maintained that environmental degradation has in some cases operated to hamper reproductive health in some nations inclusive of Nigeria. The author therefore concluded that absolute precautions are to be accommodated in order to preserve national biodiversity and eco system.