Prior to the mid-1990s very little was done to address the critical reproductive health (RH) needs of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Findings from the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children’s seminar report, Refugee Women and Reproductive Health Care: Reassessing Priorities, published in 1994, supported advocacy at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, where the rights of refugee and IDPs to RH were specifically recognised in the Programme of Action.

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