Women's Health Journal articles from October 2006

Women's Health Journal archives from October 2006

Towards laws more respectful of human rights in health.
October 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Citizens of Latin American and Caribbean countries face a scenario full of challenges and obstacles on health issues, particularly those related to sexual and reproductive health. As usual in recent years, every step...

The organic law on health and sexual and reproductive rights.(ECUADOR)
October 1, 2006... Although the Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres (National Council of Women, CONAMU) drafted this article before the Ecuadorian Congress finally passed the law, it outlines the importance of this legislation and its provisions. The Consejo...

Worrying precedent for the defense of women's human rights.(EC IN ECUADOR)
October 1, 2006... On May 23, 2006, Ecuador's Constitutional Tribunal ruled in favor of a lawsuit presented by Jose Fernando Rosero Rohde. The ruling, which cannot be appealed, suspends the drug registration process of the emergency contraception product...

Abortion, separation of church and state, and civil rights.(NICARAGUA)
October 1, 2006... The following article was prepared by Nicaragua's Movimiento Autonomo de Mujeres (Autonomous Women's Movement), the coordinators of the September 28th Campaign for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean. ...

Nicaragua after the elections: Women's rights, the challenge continues.(Interview)
October 1, 2006... Gabriela De Cicco talks with physician and LACWHN advisory board member Ana Maria Pizarro of Servicios Integrales para la Mujer (SI Mujer, Comprehensive Services for Women) in Managua, Nicaragua. This interview was published originally in...

Emergency contraception: The arduous defense of a human right.(CHILE)
October 1, 2006... Emergency contraception (EC) has been used in Chile and many other countries for years in the form of the Yuzpe method (combined oral contraceptives). In private medical offices and public health clinics, health-care professionals have provided...

Constitutional tribunal rules in favor of EC.(PERU)
October 1, 2006... Peruvian feminists Rocio Villanueva and Karin Velasco visited Chile to share their experiences related to emergency contraception in their country to offer insights that could be useful to Chilean groups fighting for access to EC. Ms....

Individual perspectives, regional realities: LACWHN.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)(Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network's board)
October 1, 2006... Several new members were welcomed at the August 2006 meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network's board of directors. LACWHN's board now includes: Maria Eugenia Romero Contreras, General Director of Equidad de...

Ayurveda, the science of life.(OPINION)
October 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A feminist specialist in communications and a founding member of the Costa Rica-based Feminist International Radio Endeavour, RAIFFIRE, the author has participated in hundreds of events, fora and campaigns promoting...

Health, sexuality and reproduction among Chile's indigenous peoples: A research survey, 1990-2004.(PANORAMA)(Survey)
October 1, 2006... The data presented here are based on the project, "National Analysis of Studies and Experiences in Sexual and Reproductive Health among Chile's Indigenous Peoples from 1990 to 2004," undertaken by the Chilean non-governmental organization...

The human rights of migrants in the Dominican Republic: Equality, protection, nationality.(SHARING OUR EXPERIENCES)
October 1, 2006... Some 800,000 people of Haitian nationality live in the Dominican Republic. Female migration in particular has risen in recent years and is no longer limited to women who accompany their partners as it was for decades. Increasing numbers of...

Documenting Violence: Di Perejil.
October 1, 2006... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last year, Motrine, Fifa and Solange, three Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic, had their children taken from them. The first two women are residents of Batey Mao, a poor community close to the...

The right to a name, the right to nationality.
October 1, 2006... A news article published in 2003 in the newspaper El Nuevo Dia entitled "Ciudadania inexistente" (Nonexistent Citizenship) captured our attention. The article described how boys and girls of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic were...

Haiti: The Feminization of Migration.(Interview)
October 1, 2006... The following is an extract of Laurent Duvillier's interview with Colette Lespinasse, Coordinator of the Haitian NGO Groupe d'Appui aux Rapatries et Refugies (GARR, Support Group for Repatriates and Refugees), originally publish in the INSTRAW...