Women's Health Journal articles from January 2007

Women's Health Journal archives from January 2007

Why a convention on sexual and reproductive rights?(DOCUMENTS)
January 1, 2007... "Because increasing numbers of people--men, women, young people, transsexuals, people of all ages, races and colors-think that liberty and equity in these spheres of human life should be guaranteed for all without any sort of discrimination."...

Manifesto for an Inter-American convention on sexual rights and reproductive rights: Times of counter-cultural struggle: our bodies, our lives.(Version for Debate)
January 1, 2007... The Campaign for an Inter-American Convention on Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights was launched in late 1999. The Manifesto of the Campaign in its first version was circulated for debate starting in November 2002 among all organizations and...

Ensuring timely access to essential supplies: Sexual and reproductive health.
January 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In recent decades, governments, international agencies, international and national nongovernmental organizations, cooperation agencies and civil society have undertaken technical and political reflections on the...

Availability and supply of reproductive health medicines and supplies: Latin America and the Caribbean.
January 1, 2007... Around the globe and especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, the scarcity of reproductive health supplies--condoms, contraceptives, instruments for performing Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA), as well as misoprostol, mifepristone and other...

Available, accessible, appropriate: reproductive health supplies and the right to health.(Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network)
January 1, 2007... The issue of reproductive health supplies is of great interest to the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network. To meet the wide range of users' needs, reproductive health supplies must be available, accessible and appropriate. They...

The global gag rule & maternal deaths due to unsafe abortion.
January 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Global Gag Rule Impact Project is a collaborative research effort led by Population Action International in partnership with Ipas and Planned Parenthood Federation of America and with field assistance from...

Beyond almost impossible: The world social forum in Nairobi.(Opinion)
January 1, 2007... The author, a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network's board of directors, is a journalist with a masters degree in political science and the Executive Secretary of Brazil's Rede Nacional Feminista de Saude, Direitos...

Gendering the WSF Nairobi 2007 process.(World Social Forum )
January 1, 2007... The author is the National Coordinator of the Kenya Social Forum. This paper was first presented at a public forum on "Gendering the WSF Process" held at Ufungamano House in Nairobi on Thursday, May 25, 2006 and supported by the Heinrich Boell...

Child Abuse, a patriarchal policy.(PANORAMA)
January 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Children's rights in international instruments have been modified countless times, especially since the creation and ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which deals with all boys and...

Backlash, parental alienation syndrome and co-construction.(PANORAMA)
January 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Work on the issue of sexual abuse in children and adolescents lays bare the power relations between genders, generations and social classes. The issue of gender is seen in statistics from UN agencies that report that...