Missing in access: A feminist critique of international documents that pertain to the human right of adolescent girls to access to health services and their impact on young women in Afghanistan and in Canada

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The health services and programs promoting the well-being of adolescent girls as described in international declarations, covenants and conventions that have been signed by countries around the world are not available to most young women. A feminist cultural studies approach is used to study human rights documents and two case studies that describe access to health services for girls in Afghanistan and girls in Canada. The results expose a historically produced, socially constructed and culturally defined hegemony that denies girls the human right they have to health services. The way forward requires making equity a budget issue, educating civil society and program providers about human rights law, launching a Charter Challenge, conducting gender specific research, changing the measurement of program efficacy and empowering girls to take action themselves through self-esteem building physical activity programs.