Women's Health Journal articles from October 2005

Women's Health Journal archives from October 2005

Women, information and power: the challenge of ICTs.(information and communication technologies)
October 1, 2005... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the most profound developments of the 20th century was the revolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and it is just beginning. While many of us have grown up immersed in this nonstop...

Gender and ICTs: An issue of sustainable development: Margarita Salas.(Information and Communications Technology)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... As a member of the international organization Bellanet, Costa Rican psychologist Margarita Salas is involved in analyzing women's participation in the area of information and communication technologies. But she also has a secret identity:...

"Not everyone sees training for women as worthwhile": Margarita Antonio.
October 1, 2005... As a member of the Instituto para la Comunicacion Intercultural (Institute for Intercultural Communication) at the Universidad de las Regiones Autonomas de la Costa Caribe Nicaraguense (URACCAN, University of the Autonomous Regions of the...

WSIS final outcome: Gender equality reduced to digital divide only.(World Summit on the Information Society)(Reprint)
October 1, 2005... The following article is an edited version of a FIRE press release reprinted with the permission of Feminist International Radio Endeavour, FIRE (Apartado 239, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica; oficina@radiofeminista.net). For other news from the WSIS,...

Painfully scarce: Services for women and girls affected by sexual violence in Chile.(DOCUMENTS)
October 1, 2005... To provide an overview of sexual violence services in Chile, the authors, professionals specializing in public health and mental health, carried out qualitative research in 2001 primarily through key informant interviews and an extensive...

"One of our priorities is to reduce maternal deaths in Brazil": Maria Jose Araujo.(OPINION)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Maria Jose Araujo is a Brazilian physician and committed feminist who has worked extensively in the area of women's health, gender and public policy. She also is well known for her work in Brazil's feminist movement. She has been Executive...

"The decriminalization of abortion in Colombia is a political demand of the feminist movement": Olga Amparo Sanchez.(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Olga Amparo Sanchez is a longstanding participant in Colombia's feminist and women's movements and a member of the Casa de la Mujer in Bogota, an organization that pioneered the defense of women's human rights and citizenship. She was a member...

The second people's health assembly: Cuenca, Ecuador July 17-22, 2005.(PANORAMA)(Reprint)
October 1, 2005... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This Panorama section is adapted and reprinted from the newsletter Contact (no. 180, December 2005), a publication of the World Council of Churches. This excellent issue was written by Lezak Shallat (former Women's...

Markets cannot guarantee the right to health.
October 1, 2005... "Charity can meet needs but it doesn't guarantee rights. Rights focus on the fulfillment of obligations in a true social contract. We must fight to ensure that rights are met." --Claudio Schuftan "The right to health will have to be...

Neoliberal onslaught on health reforms.
October 1, 2005... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Genuine commitment and participation have sustained the importance of primary health care, and this is what the People's Health Assembly promotes." --Halfdan Mahler In the 1980s, Latin American governments...

Free trade agreements threaten access to medicines.
October 1, 2005... "We are here to protest the onslaught of the pharmaceutical industry and its mortal toll." --Unnikrshnan, PHA2 coordinator of communications New obstacles to accessing essential medicines are on the horizon in the form of Free Trade...

Reclaiming traditional health care.
October 1, 2005... The concept of "interculturality" was not developed in university classrooms but in native communities. Its purpose is to preserve ancient knowledge and practices. "It is a question of recognizing ethnic diversity," says Manuela Garcia Pu,...