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Published 1/10/2010 | Updated 1/10/2010

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Our objective is an equal world in which the individual rights of all people including women, homosexual, bisexual, transgender persons and the poverty stricken are respected. Our international development efforts aim to increase the conditions for productive work with SRHR issues in various countries through long-term cooperation with local partner organisations. In addition, these efforts focus on developing methods and accessible approaches that can facilitate change in other parts of the world.

Through our advocacy and political efforts we strive to improve policies concerning sexual issues in general throughout the world. RFSU works specifically to affect and change policy and legislation within the area of SRHR. This can include efforts to support work aimed at abolishing repressive or discriminative legislation where it exists. Furthermore, RFSU works to increase resources allocated to SRHR causes and to spread information concerning sexuality, reproduction, health, rights and foreign aid issues in a global perspective.

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