Teenage pregnancies

Although the number of teenage pregnancies has stabilised over the last three years and even decreased in 2003, preventing teenage pregnancies continues to be a priority.

First of all, research is being conducted into the background causes of teenage pregnancies.

On the other hand, the figures for abortions, teenage pregnancies and teenage mothers have increased over the past few years, especially among ethnic minority girls.

Cuba and Colombia, for example, were promoting information about reproductive health in order to reduce teenage pregnancies.

The Committee is concerned at the lack of adolescent health services and the large number of teenage pregnancies.

Regular information to girls and boys on relationships and sexuality, starting in the sixth year of primary school Measures to combat teenage pregnancies Provide information about the risks of late pregnancies Structural support and shelters for pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers Measures to make it easier to combine work and care, with childcare provision as the main priority.

The Committee is concerned at the high incidence of teenage pregnancies, the inadequate reproductive health services and at the lack of mental health services for adolescents.

95. The Committee remains concerned at the persistence of traditional attitudes and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, early marriages, teenage pregnancies and Trokosi (ritual enslavement of girls).

For example, in cases of teenage pregnancies, medical staff are much more likely to inquire into incest and or abuse within the family than into possibilities of child prostitution.

739. The Committee remains concerned at the persistence of traditional attitudes and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, early marriages, teenage pregnancies and trokosi (ritual enslavement of girls).

Other factors that contribute to the spread of HIV AIDS include early marriages, illiteracy among women, women's lack of control over their fertility, teenage pregnancies, alcohol and drug abuse, etc.

Other suggestions made were on the effective implementation of affirmative action, the impact of customary laws on women, violence against women, laws on abortion, health care for prostitutes , teenage pregnancies, etc.

Despite efforts to sensitize the communities on human rights issues such as forced and early marriages, teenage pregnancies and harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM), these practices continue to occur.

Teenage pregnancy

The Committee is concerned at the lack of information on adolescent health services available in mainland China and the Macau SAR, as well as the high incidence of teenage pregnancies and abortions in the Hong Kong SAR.

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Pregnancies following special treatment

67. The Committee recommends that further resources and assistance be devoted to activities in the area of family planning and health education programmes, with a view to addressing the problem of teenage or unwanted pregnancies and changing male sexual behaviour.

711. The Committee recommends that further resources and assistance be devoted to activities in the area of family planning and health education programmes, with a view to addressing the problem of teenage or unwanted pregnancies and changing male sexual behaviour.

The Committee recommends that the State party envisage plans to adopt reproductive health measures designed to reduce the incidence of pregnancies among teenage girls and strengthen its information and prevention programmes to combat HIV AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Incidence by number of pregnancies.

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10.4 Pregnancy among Teenage Learners

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191. The Committee recommends that the State party envisage plans to adopt reproductive health measures designed to reduce the incidence of pregnancies among teenage girls and strengthen its information and prevention programmes to combat HIV AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD).

That's about 43 percent of all the pregnancies.

Considerable changes have taken place in monitoring of pregnancies.

In 2001, 46 per cent of uneducated teenage girls had already given birth or were pregnant, as against 5 per cent of teenage girls attending university.

Referring to teenage pregnancy, she wanted to know what measures the Government was taking to prohibit punitive action against teenage mothers and their families at the village level.

Several measures have therefore been taken to help prevent unwanted pregnancies.

The incidence of early pregnancies is also a matter of concern.

Teenage boys lived in isolation, their bodies covered with white clay.

In 1997, the policy on pregnancy amongst teenage learners was adopted.

It assists teenage mothers aged 12 to 17 and their children.

1276. The Committee is concerned about the incidence of teenage suicide.

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Such measures would promote change in persisting negative attitudes towards children, particularly girls, disabled children, children born out of wedlock, children affected by or infected with HIV AIDS, including orphans, and contribute to abolishing traditional practices prejudicial to the health and well being of children, such as female genital mutilation, early marriages and teenage pregnancies.

The Special Rapporteur was informed that in so called bed room communities in the outskirts of large urban areas, where both parents are commuters, the most likely time for teenage pregnancies and substance abuse has been identified as between 3 and 7 o apos clock in the afternoon, in the unsupervised time after school.

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The incidence of abortion varies significantly according to the number of pregnancies the lowest figure for women who have had an abortion is found in the group which has had up to two pregnancies (22.9 per cent), and this figure is doubled for women who have had five or six pregnancies.

Finally, there must be sufficient facilities for teenage mothers and pregnant teenagers.

It assessed the extent of the problem of teenage refugee school dropouts.

73. The Committee remains concerned at prevailing traditional attitudes and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, early marriages and teenage pregnancies, and at the persistence of discriminatory social attitudes against vulnerable groups of children, such as the girl child, disabled children, children born out of wedlock and children affected by or infected with HIV AIDS, including orphans.

500. The Committee remains concerned at prevailing traditional attitudes and harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, early marriages and teenage pregnancies, and at the persistence of discriminatory social attitudes against vulnerable groups of children, such as the girl child, disabled children, children born out of wedlock and children affected by or infected with HIV AIDS, including orphans.