Population paradigms frequently attribute poverty to overpopulation, see the causes of environmental degradation and natural resource scarcity in population growth or mismanagement by poor people, and link reducing women's fertility to mitigating climate change or preventing environmental destruction (UNDP, 2011). Population policies that are coercive in their approach to reducing fertility rates compromise human well-being, dignity, individual bodily integrity and autonomy and are inconsistent with international norms and standards. Since 1994, the global policy and normative framework has made a significant shift in recognizing women's sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as the cornerstone of population and development policies.