Women in Action articles from April 2008

Women in Action archives from April 2008

Battles to save lives.(EdiTor's NoTe)(Editorial)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This WIA issue on ABORTION BATTLES is not a collection of articles on the debates between the anti-abortion and pro-choice positions. It will not resolve the tensions these two polarised positions have created. Nor...

More to demand: abortion in Vietnam.(TaLking PoiNts)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Vietnam has perhaps the most liberal policy on abortion in Southeast Asia. Abortion on demand has been legal in the country since the 1960s as the government considers abortion as primarily an issue of social...

The 'war on women' belies the ' war on terror'.(TaLking PoiNts)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On December 17, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on executions. On the same day, an Italian newspaper published a petition asking the UN to similarly...

Abortion stories.(TaLking PoiNts)
April 1, 2008... SHE had just found out that she was pregnant with her seventh child Her husband was a furniture maker who had been unemployed for some time, and she was having an increasingly difficult time scrounging for money to buy food for her family. "I...

From base to summit: abortion law reform in Nepal.(TaLking PoiNts)
April 1, 2008... Once notoriously known for having one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, Nepal has now become one of the most liberal in handling the issue of abortion. Given the decades of subjecting women with unwanted pregnancies into the...

Ensuring reproductive rights in Colombia: from Constitutional Court success to reality: issues and challenges in the implementation of the new abortion law (1).(TaLking PoiNts)
April 1, 2008... On 14 March 2005, Women's Link Worldwide publicly launched a bold and innovative challenge to the Constitutional Court of Colombia, asking the judges to liberalise the country's abortion law which prohibited the procedure under all...

Backstreet abortion and the WGNRR agenda.(TaLking PoiNts)(Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights )
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Backstreet abortion continues to plague women worldwide. Where abortion is prohibited or restricted as in many countries of the Global South, clandestine abortion services are bound to persist. Performed by...

Thirty-five years of legal abortion in the U.S.: the unfinished agenda.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] January 22, 2008 .was the 35th anniversary of legal abortion in the United States during these years, millions of women bare gotten the abortions they needed, without risk to their lives and health. Yet millions of...

Changing ourselves to change the world: AI's policy consultation process on sexual and reproductive rights including abortion.(Amnesty International )
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2007, Amnesty International adopted a policy framework on sexual and reproductive rights, including a policy position on selected aspects of abortion. The process leading to the adoption of the policy framework...

Disturbing the descendants of the dragon: one child policy and women in China.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The imperial dragon which has symbolised the greatness of Chinese civilisation and history has never been more vibrant and aggressive China has hogged the headlines lately, stunning the world, particularly...

Unsafe abortion and fundamentalism in the Philippines: locating absences, dredging trenches.
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 2005, the Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) completed a global policy research project on Health Sector Reforms, Maternal Mortality and Abortion across many countries representing various...

Abortion worldwide: twelve years of reform.
April 1, 2008... "In light of Paragraph 8.25 of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, which states: '... All governments and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations are urged to strengthen...

The world's abortion law.
April 1, 2008... Currently, 61 per cent of the world's people in countries where induced abortion is permitted either for a wide range of reasons or without restriction as to reason. In contrast, 26 per cent of all people reside in countries where abortion is...

Marie Stopes on health politics in Mexico.(One On One)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WIA spoke with Dr. Laura Miranda, director of Marie Stopes Mexico about the continuing struggle of the reproductive and sexual health terrain which Mexican women's groups, other social movements, communities, women...

Arrows for change: challenging and changing the mainstream.(Community & Independent Media)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Abortion policies that have blanket age of consent requirements need to be modified to include the concept of the evolving capacity of the adolescent and the capabilities of young women to make their own decisions,...

A stop-over with the director.(Community & Independent Media)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] An Interview with Kyung Soon Korean feminist and independent film maker Kyung Soon is once more pouring her passion into an ambitious and daring opus on women. Coming from three different countries, cultures,...

Rocking the boat with a click of a mouse: Women on Waves and Women on Web.(Community & Independent Media)
April 1, 2008... Any vessel that has tread the high seas has been tossed by the waves and the winds, but not as much as Women on Waves. The nearer it came to its harbour of destination, the more the vessel was rocked with protests from anti-abortion advocates,...

Resisting religious repression through memory, medicine, and movements.(We've got Male)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Interview with Dr. Michael Tan Dr. Michael Tan, a Philippine medical anthropologist, shares his informative and unadulterated critique of the religious hierarchy. Albeit pockets of resistance exist even within...

Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights: 25 years of taking a stand for Access to Safe, legal abortion for all women and girls.(Isis ReviEwS)(Organization overview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WIA joins Aika van der Kleij, coordinator of the Women's Global metwork for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) in retracing the steps of the network, since the time it was founded in 1984 and in envisioning an even more...