Women's Health Journal articles from April 2004

Women's Health Journal archives from April 2004

The Cairo consensus and beyond: Women set their own goals.
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The commemoration of the first decade since the United Nations' International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo 1994) was an event of global importance, even though no official worldwide evaluation was...

The onslaught of moral conservatism.
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The following is a brief excerpt of the presentation made by the author at the Forum for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights: Reaffirming ICPD+10, June 25-26, 2004, San Juan, Puerto Rico. We must analyze the...

ICPD: the means, not the end.
April 1, 2004... How do we convert the signature of our governments on ICPD ratification into a serious and responsible commitment demonstrated through real programs and not mere declarations of goodwill in international fora? There are many important...

Another challenge for the women's movement.(BEIJING+10)
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The critical perspective of organizations from the feminist and women's movements and their capacity for developing proposals have been essential in strengthening governments' commitments to and implementation of...

ICPD+10 in Our national contexts.
April 1, 2004... The regional process to ratify the Programme of Action from the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo 1994) was an important advance in the recognition of the sexual and reproductive rights of women and the entire...

An international initiative.(COUNTDOWN 2015)
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The goals set in the ICPD Programme of Action are even more urgent now than they were when they were agreed upon in 1994. Some clear progress can be seen in changing government strategies and in improving access to...

"Sexual and reproductive health and rights for All".(countdown 2015 declaration of the global roundtable)
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Countdown 2015 Global Roundtable Declaration was endorsed by some 600 participants from 109 countries at the Global Roundtable Meeting held 30 August-3 September 2004, London. This meeting was a key NGO-led...

Moving Cairo beyond itself.
April 1, 2004... Statement prepared by the Coalition of Women's Groups in conjunction with the Global Roundtable, September 2004. The Cairo consensus was a child of multiple midwives, a coalition of many groups and sectors. But history will show that its...

ATENEA: Monitoring as an exercise of women's citizenship.
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The following text is a translation of the first section of the Spanish-language Latin American Report on the Follow-up Project on the Implementation of the Programme of Action from the International Conference on...

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ICPD.
April 1, 2004... The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) began a far-reaching cultural transformation and was a milestone in the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The 179 participating nations affirmed men and...

A network spreads its wings: The foundation and forerunners of LACWHN.
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The emergence of Latin American and Caribbean feminism in the 20th century is rooted in the critical and groundbreaking discourses on sexuality, relationships and motherhood. The result of this process is the...

Highlights of the Latin American and Caribbean women's health movement.
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Twenty years have passed since the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network was founded. It is a time to take measure of the past and look toward the future. The following chronology mentions only some of...

Women's voices.(Brief article)
April 1, 2004... Over these many years, we have had the privilege of including documents and articles prepared by many of the women members of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network. We have also published numerous interviews with researchers...

Health care models in the context of globalization.
April 1, 2004... What social and political realities will I discuss? The region in which I live, that which know best: Latin America and the Caribbean, with a special emphasis on the case of Chile, which is presented throughout the region as a successful model...

Equity, gender and health: Myths and realities.
April 1, 2004... This presentation has two objectives. First, I would like to share in a more schematic fashion the ethical and empirical principles which form the basis for the Pan American Health Organization's directive "to incorporate a gender perspective...

Violence against women: The potential and challenge of a human rights perspective.
April 1, 2004... "Every woman has the right to be free from violence in both in the public and private spheres." -Convention of Belem do Para, Art. 3 Only four years ago, the human rights system treated violence against women-even when sexual and when...

Are we sexual citizens?
April 1, 2004... If our concept of the body goes beyond the merely biological to include bodies as spheres of power in which the decisions that involve the body imply affirmations and negations with individual and social implications, then we concur that these...

The triumphs of the women's movement.(Women's Human Rights in the 20th Century)
April 1, 2004... Astrologists say the upcoming millennium will be the women's millennium, filled with female energy. If this prediction comes to pass, it will be thanks to women's tremendous efforts and our significant gains in the century now drawing to a...

Women, mental health and gender.
April 1, 2004... The following article is based on our book Mujeres, Salud Mental y Genero (Women, Mental Health and Gender), published by the Municipality of Montevideo in May 2000. In this book, we drew on our personal experiences as women and many other...

On women's right to experience their sexuality free from illness.
April 1, 2004... In this presentation, I will address the challenge of developing a feminist reflection on women's right to experience their sexuality free from illness. Without abandoning my perspective as a physician, I will make use of the contributions...

Constant exhaustion: Women, work and mental health.
April 1, 2004... The relationship between living conditions, work and mental health has been extensively explored within the area of gender studies. Problems and concepts such as double and triple shifts, "invisible work," the feminization of poverty, survival...

On the Paradoxes of growing older.(Abanicos)
April 1, 2004... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Most women who are involved in the women's movement, especially the feminist movement, are "older" women. However, the issue of menopause--something that we all will experience someday, if we haven't already--is...

Domestic violence: The vicious circle.
April 1, 2004... Much has been written about domestic violence suffered by women but very little about the impact it produces on our physical and emotional health. In 1994, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) indicated that gender-based violence has the...

Abortion in Latin America and the Cairo and Beijing agreements: The perspective of Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir.
April 1, 2004... Conquest and colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese Empires marked Latin America from its beginning, and one of the inseparable elements of this historic heritage was the evangelization of the Catholic faith. Past and present analysis...

Gender and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
April 1, 2004... HIV/AIDS has appeared in many guises since the first cases of the devastating illness emerged in the early 1980s, but its explosive growth can only be explained by a combination of factors that transcend the merely biological. The social,...