Women's Health Journal articles from April 2003

Women's Health Journal archives from April 2003

Violence against women, it's everyone's problem.(From The Coordinating Office)
April 1, 2003... Over a decade ago the human rights system turned a blind eye to violence against women; it was a "private" problem, a "natural" aspect of relationships in which outsiders should not meddle. Never was this violence perceived as a human rights...

Susana Chiarotti: "we live in a culture of denial".(Opinion)
April 1, 2003... Deborah Meacham, editor of the Women's Health Journal, recently had the opportunity to interview Susana Chiarotti, an Argentine attorney and Regional Coordinator of the Comite Latinoamericano y del Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la...

Health sector reform and women's rights.
April 1, 2003... During the 1990s, a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean launched reforms of the health sector. These reforms were part of broader initiatives throughout the region to reorganize the State apparatus in the context of...

Debora Tajer: "we need much more information on the impact of health sector reform".
April 1, 2003... What do you think of meetings like the roundtable organized by LACWHN? I feel that such opportunities are very important because in general the women's health movement has not been very involved in the analysis of neoliberal reforms in...

Awards for the Regional Contest "For Women's Health and Against Violence": November 25 International Day Against Violence Against Women.(News And Meetings)
April 1, 2003... Since 1996 the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network has supported women's groups and organizations of our region that undertake activities promoting May 28, International Action for Women's Health, and November 25, International...

Women's South-South dialogue.(News And Meetings)
April 1, 2003... What do Indian and Chilean women have in common? Quite a great deal, as we learned during a workshop hosted in Santiago, Chile, July 18, 2003, by the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network for the Ford Foundation's project to...

The trafficking of women: a human rights issue.(News And Meetings)
April 1, 2003... Recent media coverage of the case involving a Chilean woman discovered to be working in the commercial sex industry in Japan--who is now facing charges of trafficking in the Chilean tribunals--has caused an explosion of interest in what was...

UNESCO database project.(News And Meetings)
April 1, 2003... UNESCO has launched a project on sexual trafficking with the goal of developing a standardized mechanism to produce clear statistics on global trafficking. The initiative will largely rely on the expertise of trafficking experts and...

U.S. Senate nixes "global gag rule," votes on UNFPA funds.(IPPF NewsNewsNews: international news highlights in sexual and reproductive health & rights)
April 1, 2003... The U.S. Senate yesterday voted to repeal the "global gag rule," reinstated by President George W. Bush in 2000 on his second day in office, which bans aid to international family planning organizations that provide or counsel on abortion. ...

Abortion ship visits Poland.(IPPF NewsNewsNews: international news highlights in sexual and reproductive health & rights)
April 1, 2003... The world's first floating abortion clinic, which briefly went to Ireland from the Netherlands in 2001, is to risk the wrath of the Catholic Church again by dropping anchor off Poland. In a move certain to enrage anti-abortion campaigners,...

Young people account for the majority of new HIV/AIDS infections.(IPPF NewsNewsNews: international news highlights in sexual and reproductive health & rights)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Children and young people in Asia are facing unprecedented health risks from HIV/AIDS and other diseases due to the rapid spread of amphetamine-type drug abuse, UNICEF warned. Speaking at the International Conference on the Reduction of...

Recent and upcoming meeting.(Bulletin Board Group News And Events)(Calendar)
April 1, 2003... Forum on Latinas and Domestic Violence: El Pasado, El Presente y Mirando Hacia El Futuro August 14-15, 2003 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA The National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza) invites Latinas from...

Preventing maternal mortality.(Group News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The pamphlet, "Em cada cidade um comite de prevencao da mortalidade materna: dever do Estado, compromisso da sociedade" (A Committee to Prevent Maternal Mortality in Every City: A Duty of the State, A Commitment of Society), was launched by...

Women's Human Rights award.(Group News)(feminist women's organization La Morada receives award)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... With the support of the Ford Foundation, Chile's feminist women's organization La Morada has established a Regional Award for Women's Human Rights for 2003. Groups throughout the region are invited to send nominations in this effort to...

Telling their tale.(Group News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Creacion Positiva (Positive Creation), in Barcelona, Spain, is an organization of people living with HIV that works from a gender perspective. The group's recent publication, Cuentame un cuento. Narraciones para el trabajo emocional de mujeres...

Promoting emergency contraception.(Group News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Chile's Foro Red de Salud y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (Forum Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights) has published Decisiones. Publicacion sobre Anticoncepcion de Emergencia para la Ciudadania (Decisions: The Civil Right...

Monographs on motherhood.(Group News)(writing contests)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Argentine group NATAL is sponsoring a writing contest for the best research paper on the topic of motherhood in the hopes of encouraging investigation, study and reflection on issues related to the contextual variables affecting women in...

Promoting education.(Group News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Campaign for the Right to Education All Life Long was launched by ICAE, GEO, CEAAL and REPEM (Women's Grassroots Education Network) at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre 2003. This campaign also will form part of the program of the nest...

Resources for HIV+ women.(Group News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Vivo Positivo, a Chilean group of people living with HIV/AIDS, recently produced an informational brochure entitled "Mujeres viviendo con VIH/ SIDA y sus derechos sexuales y reproductivos," (Women Living with HIV/AIDS and Their Sexual and...

Make a note!(Group News)(Directory)
April 1, 2003... Red Latinoamericana y Caribena de Jovenes por los Derechos Reproductivos y Sexuales, REDLAC Parana 135 Piso 3, Depto. 13 (1017) Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel./fax: (54 11) 4372 2763 E-mail: redlac@ciudad.com.ar Feminist International...

Worth a thousand words.(Group News)(postcards denounce sex discrimination and crimes against women)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... The Indian women's organizations Point of View in Mumbai and CREA in New Delhi have produced a beautiful set of postcards that use art photography to denounce the serious forms of discrimination suffered by women and girls in their country,...

Mexico.(Mailbox)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Dear Friends Sometime ago, a group of organizations and individuals committed to the promotion of sexual and reproductive rights formed the Alianza Nacional por el Derecho a Decidir (National Alliance for the Right to Free Choice). Among...

Peru.(Mailbox)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... Dear Friends, My name is Guadalupe Apaza, and I am responsible for the program, "Amiga Esperanza" (Your Friend Hope), which is broadcast Saturdays and Sundays on Radio Juliaca S.A. from the city of Juliaca in the department of Puno, Peru....

Brazil.(Mailbox)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... Dear Friends, We would like to take advantage of this opportunity to reconfirm our interest in continuing to participate in the Women's Health Network by sending our membership form. We would also like to congratulate you on the...

Chile.(Mailbox)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2003... Dear Friends, The Red Chilena contra la Violencia Domestica y Sexual (Chilean Network against Sexual and Domestic Violence) is very pleased to receive First Place in the Regional Contest, "For Women's Health and Against Violence," launched...

Justice is fundamental.(Freedom of Choice)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2003... By establishing normative codes of conduct and imposing narrow-minded ideals and values, fundamentalisms hinder civic participation and have a damaging impact on peoples' lives and health. Sexual and reproductive health and rights are one...

Defending reproductive rights: women's rights activists in Latin America should take to the courts.(Freedom of Choice)
April 1, 2003... In May, a federal judge in Argentina turned the bench into a conservative bully pulpit when she called modern methods of contraception violations of women's health and then banned the sale and production of oral contraceptives and intrauterine...

Peruvian government attempts to take control of women's bodies.(Freedom of Choice)
April 1, 2003... from the Center for Health and Gender Equity The following text is the original Action Alert issued by the Center for Health and Gender Equity, CHANGE, in June 2003. Due to delays in publication of this issue of the Women's Health Journal,...

Successes and challenges in securing reproductive health and rights in Peru.(Freedom of Choice)
April 1, 2003... from the Center for Health and Gender Equity The following article is the October 2003 update to the preceeding article, CHANGE'S Action Alert "Peruvian Government Attempts to Take Control of Women's Bodies" (June 2003). Last May,...

The State, the Church and women's health: collusion and hidden favors.(Freedom of Choice)
April 1, 2003... The relationship between Church and State is an historical concern of women's movements that work for sexual and reproductive rights. What are the implications of this relationship? What are its political contexts? What impact does it have on...

Nicaragua 2003: rights, health, education and development.(Freedom of Choice)
April 1, 2003... In the first year of the new Nicaraguan government headed by President Enrique Bolanos, government agencies, the women's movement and other social organizations are facing a number of serious obstacles, as we anticipated in an earlier critical...

Social equality for women and men: to be or not to be?(Panorama)
April 1, 2003... Those of us who work in the area of gender are often asked, usually in a slightly ironic tone, why we don't address men and women equally. Some even go as far as to say that men's groups are needed to counter the advances of feminism. I...

Machismo: a sexual and reproductive health risk.(Panorama)
April 1, 2003... "And in the man too there is motherhood, it seems to me, physical and mental; his engendering is also a kind of birthing, and ff is birthing when he creates out of his innermost fullness. And perhaps the sexes are more akin than people think,...

Promoting safe motherhood in Mexico: Comite Promotor por una Maternidad sin Riesgos.(Sharing Our Experiences)
April 1, 2003... This year LACWHN's Call for Action commemorating May 28, International Day of Action for Women's Health, returned to our historical focus on the prevention of maternal mortality. In keeping with this theme, we are pleased to publish the...

CPMSR publications.
April 1, 2003... In its ten years of existence, Mexico's Comite Promotor por una Maternidad sin Riesgos (CPMSR, Committee for the Promotion of Safe Motherhood) has published a wide range of materials which have been essential in this organization's efforts to...

Bernarda. La Revista de la Maquila.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... Organizacion de Mujeres Salvadorenas (El Salvador) no. 1, February--March 2003. This is the first issue of the magazine produced by the Organizacion de Mujeres Salvadorenas (ORMUSA, Salvadoran Women's Organization) for women who work in...

CAFRA news.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... The Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (Trinidad) vol. 16, no. 2, July-December 2002. This issue of CAFRA's biannual, bilingual magazine is dedicated to Women, Globalization and Fair Trade, which was the topic of the...

Revista da Saude.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... Conselho Nacional de Saude (Brazil) vol. 3, no. 3, December 2002. Brazil's Conselho Nacional de Saude (CNS, National Health Council) publishes the high-quality, Portuguese--language "Health Magazine." This issue addresses the impact of...

Mujeres y SIDA.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... Grupo Latinoamericano de Trabajo sobre Mujeres y SIDA (Mexico) vol. 6, no. 1. Published by the Grupo Latinoamericano de Trabajo sobre Mujeres y SIDA (GLAMS, Latin American Working Group on Women and AIDS), this issue offers a report on the...

Revista del Consumidor.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... Procuradur/a Federal del Consumidor (Mexico) no. 314, April 2003. Mexico's Consumer Protection Agency, the Procuraduria Federal del Consumidor, publishes the "Consumer's Magazine" as a tool to facilitate the defense of consumer's rights....

TIBS news.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... The Informative Breastfeeding Service (Trinidad) vol. 25, no. 2, April-June 2003. The quarterly newsletter of The Informative Breastfeeding Service features information about the activities of this Trinidadian NGO dedicated to the...

Development.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... SAGE Publications (London), vol. 45, no. 2, June 2003. "Globalization, Reproductive Health and Rights" is the topic of this very interesting issue of Development, the quarterly journal of the Society for International Development. Included...

Herizons.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... Herizons Inc. (Canada) vol. 16, no. 3, Winter 2003. "The purpose of HERIZONS is to empower women, to inspire hope and foster a state of wellness that enriches women's lives... HERIZONS aims to reflect a feminist philosophy that is diverse,...

Women 2000 and beyond.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... UN Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (New York) June 2003. Women, nationality and citizenship is the focus of this extremely useful issue of Women 2000 and beyond, "published to promote the...

Off our backs.(Periodicals)
April 1, 2003... OOB Collective (Washington, D.C.) vol. 33, no. 7-8, July-August 2003. Still working as a collective after all these years, the "feminist newsjournal" OOB continues to pump out important critical information and denunciations. This issue...

Fatima Oliveira Clonagem e manipulacao genetica humana: mitos, realidade, perspectiva e delirios.(Books)
April 1, 2003... Brasilia: Ministerio da Justica, Secretaria de Estado dos Direitos da Mulher, 2002.68 p. Cloning and Human Genetic Manipulation: Myths, Realities, Perspectives and Delirium includes the essay, "The State of the Art in Assisted Human...

Mujeres por la Vigilancia Ciudadana Informe de Monitoreo a la Plataforma de Accion Mundial.(Books)
April 1, 2003... Peru: Grupo Impulsor Nacional, Mujeres por la Igualdad Real, 2002. 134 p. Report on the Efforts to Monitor the Platform for Action shares the results of various monitoring efforts undertaken in 2001 and 2002 that were part of the Women for...

Marijke Velzeboer, et al. Violence Against Women: the Health Sector Responds.(Books)
April 1, 2003... Occasional Publication no. 12, Washington, D.C.: PAHO, 2003. 131 p. The result of a collaborative effort by the Pan American Health Organization and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) with the technical support of the...

Emma Maria Reyes Rosas Nuevos horizontes: Nuestra salud y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos.(Books)
April 1, 2003... Mexico: EMAS, A.C.; Salud y Genero, 1999. 54 p. Although New Horizons: Our Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Health originally was published several years ago, this teaching material is extremely useful for defending sexual and...

World Health Organization Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems.(Books)
April 1, 2003... Geneva: WHO, 2003. 106 p. As the introduction to this extremely well-written and well-designed publication succinctly explains: "At the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly in June 1999, Governments agreed that 'in...

National Network of Abortion Funds Legal but Out of Reach.(Other Materials)
April 1, 2003... Amherst, Massachusetts: NNAF, 2003, 40 p. The fourth edition of Legal but Out of Reach: Stories from the National Network of Abortion Funds shares the stories of women throughout the U.S. who have been helped to access safe, legal abortions...

UNAIDS/The Panos Institute Young Men and HIV: Culture, Poverty and Sexual Risk.(Other Materials)
April 1, 2003... UNAIDS/Panos Institute (London), 2001, 41 p. This report argues that the behavior and attitudes of many young men puts them and their partners at risk. Yet despite this fact, this group is given very little attention in the global response...

Pro Igualdad Information Folder.(Other Materials)
April 1, 2003... Panama's Programa Promocion de la Igualdad de Oportunidades (Program for the Promotion of Equal Opportunity) culminated five years of work supporting civil and government organizations for the improvement of Panamanian women's status. This...

PAHO/WHO, Population Reference Bureau Gender, Health and Development in the Americas 2003.(Other Materials)
April 1, 2003... The Gender and Health Unit of the Pan American Health Organization PAHO/ WHO and the Population Reference Bureau have produced this data sheet providing basic population and development indicators and information on other factors that influence...

The Population Council "My Father Didn't Think this Way": Nigerian Boys Contemplate Gender Equity".(Other Materials)
April 1, 2003... Quality/Calidad/Qualite No. 14, NewYork: The Population Council, 2003, 34 p. The Population Council's Quality/ Calidad/Qualite series highlights examples of innovative and thoughtful approaches to clinical and educational programs on the...

Heather Luz McNaughton, Karen Padilla, Marta Maria Blandon Foro de Mujeres Centroamericanas. Memoria Taller "Por el acceso al aborto legal y seguro".(Books)
April 1, 2003... Nicaragua: Ipas, 2003. 61 p. Central American Women's Forum: Proceedings from the Workshop, "For Access to Legal and Safe Abortion," describes the development of this forum in which the participants sought to: 1) broaden the perspectives...

Globalization Committee, Reproductive Health Affinity Group Globalization, Health Sector Reform, Gender and Reproductive Health.(Books)
April 1, 2003... Santiago, Chile: The Ford Foundation, 2001.88 p. Recently released in Spanish as Globalizacion, Reforma del Sector Salud, Genero y Salud Reproductiva, this book includes a series of articles exploring how changes in macro-economic and...

Llum Pellicer Frances Educame con equidad. Un modelo de Educacion No Sexista en El Salvador.(Books)
April 1, 2003... El Salvador: Las Dignas, 2002. 158 p. Teach Me Fairly. A Model for Non-Sexist Education in El Salvador presents a teaching model developed by the Salvadoran women's organization, Las Dignas. The first part of this manual describes the...

Nancy Riffo P. and Pamela Quijada R., eds. Sistematizacion del Seminario Taller "Atencion directa en violencia domestica".(Books)
April 1, 2003... Concepcion, Chile: Instituto de la Mujer de Concepcion, 2003. 56 p. Systematization of the Seminar-Workshop, "Treating Domestic Violence," records the experiences of this event held in city of Concepcion in southern Chile in July 2002. This...

Alicia Ely Yamin, with Raquel Hurtado Castillos de arena en el camino hacia la modernidad. Una perspectiva de los derechos humanos sobre un proceso de reforma del sector salud en el Peru (1990-2000) y sus implicancias en la muerte materna.(Books)
April 1, 2003... Lima, Peru: Flora Tristan Centro de la Mujer Peruana, 2003. 338 p. Sandcastles on the Road to Modernity. A Human Rights Perspective on the Process of Health Sector Reform in Peru (1990-2000) and its Implications for Maternal Mortality...

EC information.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... The Consorcio Latinoamericano de Anticoncepcion de Emergencia (CLAE, Latin American Consortium on Emergency Contraception) has just released the second issue of its newsletter which includes a report on the First Latin American CLAE Conference...

Collaboration in communications.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... The Comunidad Equidad (Community for Equity) and the Red Nacional de Trabajadoras de la Informacion y Comunicacion RED-ADA (REDADA, National Network of Women Working in Information and Communications) in La Paz, Bolivia, regularly publish an...

Axe feminista!(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... Brazil's AGENDE, Acoes em Genero, Cidadania e Desenvolvimento (Actions in Gender, Citizenship and Development) is a feminist organization that promotes a feminist perspective in Brazil's political and social agenda and supports the...

IPPF videos against gender violence.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... !Basta! The Health Sector Addresses Gender-Based Violence is a training video for health care providers and other professionals who may be in a position to help women living in situations of violence. The video frames the issue of violence...

Gender and women's health.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... The Department of Gender and Women's Health of the World Health Organization has recently launched a new website at http://www.who.int/gender/ This department supports a range of WHO programs and areas in integrating a gender perspective...

Macroeconomics and health.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... The Women's Health Organization has just launched its Macroeconomics and Health site promoting WHO's work in this area at a country level. Also included are useful links to sites with related information. The Documents section contains the full...

Against corruption.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... Transparency International, TILAC, is a regional network of groups working for transparency and against corruption. TILAC's website at http://www.transparency.org/tilac offers information about the network's activities, studies and surveys, the...

FHI's dynamic new site.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... Family Health International, FHI, has a new website that is more interactive and easier to use. The focus of the site is on the central priorities of FHI: prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and support for people living with the virus;...

Against gender violence.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... Mujeres al Oeste (Women to the West) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, recently created an Interdisciplinary Service Specializing in Treatment, Prevention and Training in Violence Against Women and also offers workshops in sexual and reproductive...

"The Pop Reporter" launches customized edition.(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... The INFO Project's weekly e-zine, "The Pop Reporter," announces the launch of new customized editions. This state-of-the-art feature allows subscribers to customize their subscriptions, tailoring issues to both topic and delivery preferences....

On-line activism: against gender violence!(On-line Resources)
April 1, 2003... The Red Feminista Latinoamericana y del Caribe contra la Violencia Domestica y Sexual (RedFem, Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence), based in Isis Internacional (Santiago, Chile), recently launched...