Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes
Full text at: http://www.ijrcenter.org/2014/06/12/international-criminal-court-prosecutor-publishes-policy-paper-on-sexual-and-gender-based-crimes/ (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: BOOKSHELF Source Type: research
Contesting the cruel treatment of abortion-seeking women
This article draws on legal arguments made by civil society organisations to challenge the legal reasoning that apparently produced the decision in the Ms Y case in Ireland in August 2014. I show how legal standards of reasonableness and practicality ought to be interpreted in ways that are respectful of the patient’s wishes and rights. The case concerned a decision by the Health Service Executive, the Irish public health authority, to refuse an abortion to a pregnant asylum seeker and rape survivor on the grounds that a caesarean section and early live delivery were practicable and reasonable alternatives justified by t...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ruth Fletcher Tags: FEATURE Source Type: research
The largest ever epidemic of Ebola
I have just returned from Liberia with a group of physicians and health activists. We are heading back in a few days. The country is in the midst of the largest ever epidemic of Ebola haemorrhagic fever. It’s an acute and brutal affliction. Ebola is a zoonosis – it leaps from animal hosts to humans – which is caused by a filovirus (a thread-like virus that causes internal and external bleeding). It was first described in 1976 in rural Congo, not far from the Ebola River, as an acute-onset syndrome characterised by complaints of weakness, followed by fever and abdominal pain. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Paul Farmer Tags: DIARY Source Type: research
Urgent needs and participation of women must be prioritized in the Ebola response
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Babatunde Osotimehin Tags: PRESS STATEMENT Source Type: research
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Health Systems Global is the first international membership organization fully dedicated to promoting health systems research and knowledge translation. In its effort to catalyse research and convene researchers, decision-makers and implementers, activities will span three broad areas of work: (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: GLOBAL NETWORK & CONFERENCE REPORT Source Type: research
Using the law and the courts
The theme of this journal issue has been a particularly important one for me, as so many of the papers are about abortion and also about the law, both subjects I’ve devoted much of my working life to. Although every unnecessary death is a cause for pain and anger, deaths from unsafe abortion anger me more than most, because they are so easily avoidable and so completely unnecessary. Moreover, they continue to happen because of the misogyny that keeps abortion illegal, emanating from the Pope on down, and the unwillingness of national and international leaders to stand up for women’s right to safe abortion, and therefor...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Marge Berer Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
Robbed of choice and dignity: Indian women dead after mass sterilization
The tragic death of 16 young women and the critical condition of several others following tubal sterilization at a camp in Bilaspur District, Chhattisgarh, has once again brought to fore the disregard for dignity of women and the dismal quality of care of India’s family planning programme. In recognition of the fact that violations of standard operating procedures and guidelines prescribed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) are not limited to Bilaspur or Chhattisgarh, but are a grave concern across the country, a multi-organizational fact-finding team travelled to Bilaspur on 19–20 November 2014 to as...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - November 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: STOP PRESS: REPORT FROM INDIA Source Type: research
Title, Table of contents and Acknowledgments
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - September 25, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Supplement Source Type: research
Round Up: Health and health systems, environment, sustainable development, contraception and sexual and reproductive health
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Source: Reproductive Health Matters - June 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Bookshelf: Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Western Europe, their fascinating ethnographies provide insight into reproduction and reproductive health broadly conceived to encompass population control, HIV/AIDS, assisted reproductive technol...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - June 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Carole H Browner, Sargent Carolyn F Source Type: research
Bookshelf: National Contraception and Fertility Planning Policy and Service Delivery Guidelines: A companion to the National Contraception Clinical Guidelines
Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa, December 2012 http://ruconnected.ru.ac.za/pluginfile.php/255356/mod_resource/content/1/ContraceptionPolicyServiceDelGuidelines2013.pdf (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - June 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Bookshelf: Powerful Synergies: Gender Equality, Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability
The globally shared vision for sustainable development has a strong gender dimension that highlights the need to continue identifying gender equality and women’s empowerment as a core development goal in itself and as a catalyst for reaching all other goals and objectives. As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the United Nations is leading preparations for a post-2015 sustainable development agenda, both to accelerate achieving the MDGs and to create a framework that will build on the achievements of the past 15 years. The central challenge for the post-2015 sustainable development ...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - June 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Edited by: Blerta Cela, Irene Dankelman, Jeffrey Stern Source Type: research
Community consensus statement on the use of antiretroviral therapy in preventing HIV transmission
http://www.hivt4p.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Community-consensus-statement-with-appendices-and-references.pdf 1. This is a community consensus statement on the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to reduce the risk of HIV transmission from people living with HIV. It does not cover the provision of antiretroviral drugs to people who are HIV negative to reduce their risk of acquiring HIV (pre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP). It is also not specifically about access to ART in general. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - June 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: NAM and European AIDS Treatment Group Source Type: research
Statement from the University of the Witwatersrand pertaining to anti-homosexuality legislation in Africa
The University of the Witwatersrand notes with dismay and concern recent legislation in Nigeria and Uganda that criminalises women and men who express themselves through relationships other than those defined as heterosexual. It also decries the targeted violence that has accompanied this legislation in these and other countries. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - June 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Message from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor and Principal Source Type: research
Statement from the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion: 12 May 2014
The International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion is a coalition of organizations and networks that support women’s right to safe, legal abortion, with members in 108 countries across the globe. Our aims are to promote universal access to safe, legal abortion as a women’s health and human rights issue, and to support women’s autonomy to make their own decisions whether and when to have children and have access to the means of acting on those decisions without risk to their health and lives. (Source: Reproductive Health Matters)
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - June 1, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
