Women's Health Journal articles from July 2006

Women's Health Journal archives from July 2006

Women with disabilities speak out: different bodies, equal rights.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1. States Parties recognise that women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination, and in this regard shall take measures to ensure the full and equal enjoyment by them of all their human...

An interview with Maria Esther Mogollon: "Disability is not addressed, not even by the feminist movement".(Interview)
July 1, 2006... A Peruvian feminist, journalist and founder of the Movimiento Amplio de Mujeres, Fundacional (Broad-based Women's Movement, MAM Fundacional), Maria Esther has a distinguished record of defending women's health, sexual and reproductive rights...

An interview with Dinah Radtke: "We are strong, we have courage and we are beautiful".(www.dpi.org)(Interview)
July 1, 2006... Dinah Radtke is the Vice Chair of Disabled Peoples' International (DPI, www.dpi.org) and the chair of the DPI Women's Committee. Disabled Peoples' International is a network of national organizations or assemblies of disabled people established...

All about the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.
July 1, 2006... On August 27, 2006, after five years of negotiations, countries meeting at the United Nations Secretariat in New York agreed on a new treaty to protect the rights of persons with disabilities. Over 100 government delegations and hundreds of...

Because our bodies are different.
July 1, 2006... The following article shares the stories of Camila, a young woman who is deaf, and Rosa, whose legs were damaged by polio when she was young. They both live in Managua, Nicaragua. Are they disabled? Differently abled? Or are they women with...

Critical situations: A book for women.(DOCUMENTS)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Situaciones limites. Un libro para mujeres (La Habana, Cuba: Mercie Ediciones, 2006), by Leticia Artiles Visbal and Olga Martha Perez, uses case studies to examine the situation of middle-aged women and their health...

The invisible woman: A true story.
July 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "And no matter how hard I tried, no one saw me." After having posed some questions to Carmen about her state of health and what she was experiencing in relation to menopause, I realized that she was among the 30%...

Empowering women as leaders in health: Lacwhn's Itinerant University.(PANORAMA)
July 1, 2006... "I came here with a suitcase full of expectations, and all of them have been fulfilled."--Itinerant University participant Since 1998, the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network has offered the International Courses on "Gender...

Building a gender agenda in public health policy.
July 1, 2006... The following presentation was given as part of the Itinerant University in Suriname in December 2005. A frequent guest lecturer in the Itinerant University program, the author is a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor and researcher at...