Women's Health Journal articles from January 2006

Women's Health Journal archives from January 2006

Days of action for women's lives, health and rights.
January 1, 2006... In 1996, the Women's Health Network began actively promoting two annual campaigns celebrating two dates that are emblematic for the women's health movement: May 28th, International Day of Action for Women's Health, and November 25th,...

May 8, 2005 Broadening the focus of the millennium development goals.(Days of Action for Women's Lives, health and Rights)
January 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2005, to commemorate the five years since the adoption of the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the governments of more than a hundred countries, LACWHN launched a call for...

International day of action for women's health, 2005: Informing, sharing, convening.(Days of Action for Women's Lives, health and Rights)
January 1, 2006... Fundacion para el Fomento de la Educacion Popular y la Pequena Industria, FEPI (Medellin, Colombia). A total of 35 thematic and discussion workshops were implemented by this organization in the context of the International Day of Action for...

November 25, 2005: Protecting Women's Health and Dignity.(Days of Action for Women's Lives, health and Rights)
January 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2005, the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network commemorated November 25th, International Day Against Violence Against Women, by launching a campaign entitled "Violence Against Women and Its Impact...

International day against violence against women, 2005: Facing violence together.(Days of Action for Women's Lives, health and Rights)
January 1, 2006... Radio Siglo XXI (La Pintana Municipality, Metropolitan Region, Chile). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The municipality of La Pintana is composed mainly of inhabitants who migrated from other communities, temporary settlements or squatters...

The oracle of the goddesses: Bringing back female archetypes.(DOCUMENTS)(Interview)
January 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a world wracked by social and political crisis, by the imposition of neoliberal economic systems based on exploitation, exclusion and discrimination that affect huge segments of the world population, a world...

Talking about our rights means talking about abortion.(OPINION)
January 1, 2006... Abortion, the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, is totally prohibited in Chile. Even women who become pregnant as the result of rape, women whose pregnancies endanger their lives or health, and women bearing fetuses with serious...

Law on voluntary interruption of pregnancy (VIP).(FRANCE)
January 1, 2006... [??]Un enfant quand je veux, si je veux! A child when I want, if I want! Women in France have struggled long and hard to win the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives, including the right to abortion or "voluntary...

ABC (Abstain, be faithful, use a condom): Does the Message Work?(STI/AIDS PREVENTION)
January 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This article describes an exploratory study that was carried out with focus groups as part of the project on STI/AIDS Prevention among Men and Women conducted by the women's health group Taller Abierto, based in...