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| | WomenWatch: UN Information and Resources on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women |
 | | Iraqi women are appealing for support as they become increasingly alarmed at what they see as a curtailing of their rights as enshrined in the interim constitution. | | | Ten years after the United Nations conference on womens rights in Beijing and just weeks before a summit of world leaders at UN Headquarters in New York, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the international community to turn their commitments into action to achieve full gender equality... | | | Women in Thailand enjoy better reproductive health than 10 years ago, thanks to policies recognizing the links between health and poverty alleviation. |
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| | Reproductive Rights - Grants - 2001 Annual Report |
| | The Women of Color Resource Center has a history in bringing to the front lines the issues of women of color who are often under acknowledged in the reproductive rights movement, and is a leader in convening conferences, workshops, dialogues and media opportunities whereby women of color can share their experiences. | | | WILD develops the capacity of women and girls to understand and use international human rights standards to improve their lives and the conditions in their communities. | | | This grant supported efforts to educate activist, pro-choice legislators in order to preserve women's reproductive rights in their states. |
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http://www.noyes.org/2001ar/reprights01.htm
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| | PhpWiki - Reproductive Womens Rights |
| | In this effort, Norplant is the drug of choice for those interested in curtailing the reproductive rights of women of color. | | | The ruling was generally clear about the right to abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy, but it also recognized the right of the state to restrict or prohibit abortion after fetal viability. It was based on an abstract concept of individual rights and not on the social needs of women as an oppressed group. | | | A genuine program for reproductive rights must include the fight for free, safe and reliable contraception, a public program of effective anti-repressive sex education that affirms the rights of youth and women in particular, as well as free abortion on demand so that the most oppressed women have access to the procedure when necessary. |
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http://www.g0lem.net/PhpWiki/index.php/ReproductiveWomensRights
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| | WHRnet Issue - Sexual and Reproductive Rights |
| | In the Americas region, there are important precedents that reflect a growing recognition of the need to guarantee respect for the rights of women and to end discrimination, which impedes women’s ability to fully enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms and to actively participate in life and in the development of society. | | | The recognition that reproductive rights are human rights has been stated in the special reports that the Commission has created in recent years, since a section on reproductive health has been included in the chapter on women rights. | | | Women’s sexual and reproductive rights under international human rights law are, therefore, the outcome of a combination of civil, political, social, cultural, and economic rights. |
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http://www.whrnet.org/docs/issue-sexualrights.html
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| | Reproductive Justice |
| | As we are currently experiencing an escalated assault on women& rights as well as a shrinking of the mainstream reproductive health and rights movement, it is critical that we include a Reproductive Justice Framework in our collective work. | | | Wade, reproductive rights activists, the media, and legislators are focusing on how the confirmation of Samuel Alito will impact the reproductive rights of women in the United States. | | | The Reproductive Rights framework is based on universal legal protections for women, such as Roe v. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/01/reproductive_justice.html
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| | Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowships |
| | The second cycle of the Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship program challenges fellows to address these issues of economic, social and political development in light of renewed concern about women& rights and fertility. | | | The Soros Reproductive Health, and Rights Fellowship Program at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, invites fellows and activists to engage in collective discussion, research, analysis and publication to advance progressive reproductive and sexual health and women& rights policies around the world. | | | The first cycle of the fellowship program focused on understanding reproductive and sexual health and rights within the context of human rights frameworks codified at the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. |
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http://www.soros.org/initiatives/repro/focus_areas/reproductive_fellowships
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| | Worldwide |
| | On February 3rd, the Committee issued concluding observations, highlighting the States responsibility to focus on and uphold womens reproductive and sexual rights. | | | In collaboration with numerous women's organizations, the Center for Reproductive Rights currently is actively involved in advocacy efforts in the regions of Africa, Asia, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Latin America and the Caribbean. | | | The Center for Reproductive Rights engages in international, regional, and national-level advocacy, policy analysis, legal research, public education, and international litigation with the goal of advancing women's equality throughout the world and ensuring that all women have access to a full range of freely chosen reproductive health services. |
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http://www.crlp.org/worldwide.html
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| | Reproductive Rights |
| | Transforming social, political, and economic conditions are part of the reproductive rights agenda so that all women are able to fully exercise their reproductive rights. | | | The Center for Reproductive Rights is a non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and defending womens reproductive rights worldwide. | | | It is to support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior and relationships, reproduction and family formation. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~fisls/reproductive_rights.htm
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| | Welcome to GoLive CyberStudio |
| | The right of Two Spirited women, their partners, and their families to live free from persecution or discrimination based on their sexuality and/or gender, and the right to enjoy the same human, political, social, legal, economic, religious, tribal, and governmental rights and benefits afforded all other indigenous women. | | | In order to accomplish the stated rights, the Native Women for Reproductive Rights will create conditions and alliances to network with other groups. | | | When speaking to traditional elders knowledgeable about reproductive health matters, repeatedly they would refer to a women knowing which herbs and methods to use "to make her period come." This was seen as a woman taking care of herself and doing what was necessary. |
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http://www.nativeshop.org/pro-choice.html
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| | Everything Is Connected: Nadia Anjuman, Dalton Conley's "Men's Right To Choose" and Saadi's Bustan |
| | Limiting reproductive rights to women is gender-specific and is therefore unacceptable. | | | Society should shrug off the negative connotations of “rape”, “molestation”, “domestic violence”, etc., and these rights must no longer be exercised furtively in back alleys but allowed to be enjoyed in the full light of day, free from disapproval and intolerance. | | | Men, by privileging virility, by investing our sense of sexual [and reproductive] validity in the effect our bodies can have on the bodies of women, have created a situation in which our feelings of sexual [and reproductive] self-worth depend upon the presence of women. |
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http://richardjeffreynewman.blogspot.com/2005/12/nadia-anjuman-dalton-conle_113382858956460977.html
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| | Review of Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement, Vol. 9, No. 1 |
| | Her work will make an excellent text for both undergraduate students and scholars seeking more specific information about the role of women of color in the reproductive rights movement. | | | Nelson's thesis is that women of color were responsible for moving a discourse centered on access to legal abortion to one that more broadly defined reproductive rights to include an end to forced sterilization and the right for all women to bear as many children as they chose. | | | Nelson attempts in this chapter to prove her thesis that the reproductive rights movement was made more inclusive through the efforts of women of color to push white feminists further in their analysis. |
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http://womhist.binghamton.edu/reviewmoravec.htm
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| | Reproductive Rights Are Labor Rights |
| | While many people think of "reproductive rights" as the right to have access to family planning options, including abortion, for many women workers their struggle is defined by the desire to both have a healthy child and to maintain their economic health. | | | Reproductive freedom and choice are essential aspects for the struggles for workers rights. | | | Unions should work with other organizations to create a movement to provide working people with basic rights, like health care and paid leave, that are already commonplace throughout the world. |
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http://www.resistinc.org/newsletter/issues/2002/10/stein.html
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| | Welfare Reform and Reproductive Rights: |
| | Both the welfare rights movement and the reproductive rights movement are under attack by those who would deny women the right to control our bodies, the right to make decisions for our children, and the right to achieve economic independence in ways that honor our intelligence and desires. | | | Three of these groups are reproductive rights groups, two are multi-issue women& groups, and three are welfare rights organizations. | | | In fact, reproductive rights really means being able to have as many or as few children as you want—it is in your control. |
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http://www.fwhc.org/tanf.htm
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| | WHRnet - Women's Human Rights Net |
| | Women's Human Rights in Pakistan-What has changed and how? | | | August 2005- Published by The World March of Women this critical document about the MDGs gives a feminist point of view on the 8 Goals and suggests improvements to poverty erradication indicators. | | | Women from ethnic minorities are facing a huge struggle to find work and are much more likely than white women to take a job for which they are overqualified, a report showed today. |
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| | Britain: Abortion rights under attack |
| | The confidence of the religious right has increased substantially as a result of a successful campaign of media manipulation and misinformation that ran roughshod over the health of women and the medical professionals seeking to safeguard it. | | | Possessing this information now allows doctors to fully inform women of the condition, who are then able to take whatever action is deemed medically necessary. | | | As scientific techniques advance, the point where a foetus is able to survive outside the womb becomes earlier. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jan2004/abor-j14.shtml
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| | Ipas > Press Room > 2005 > Releases > Reproductive Rights and African-American women |
| | Throughout US history, African-American women have repeatedly been denied their basic reproductive-health rights. | | | History has shown us that women ’s reproductive freedom is not just an issue of choice, but an issue of public health, of civil rights and of human rights. | | | The “choice” terminology associated with reproductive health and rights has not been easily embraced by black women, for whom the debate is about much more than the right to make a free choice about abortion. |
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http://www.ipas.org/english/press_room/2005/releases/02232005.asp
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| | Reproductive Rights and Social Policy, Civil Liberties |
| | Millions of women (and men) in the United States are subjected to violations of one of their most fundamental reproductive rights for no other reason than that they are single. | | | But there are countries which support women in the right to keep their children, such as Australia and Sweden, where mothers are counseled to keep their children to prevent the harm that comes from separating them. | | | CLPP's refusal to protect the rights of mothers to keep their own children is not so much different from the general view of our society. |
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http://www.adoption-articles.com/reproductive_rights.htm
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| | Reproductive Rights Steadily Eroded in the States |
| | Wade, advocates for women's reproductive rights face a deeply threatening political environment. | | | Advocates for women's reproductive rights have done their best to counter this well-oiled machine, but the reality is that our opponents have more money, more political muscle and the willingness to use every means at their disposal. | | | Most regrettably, when reproductive rights advocates have to fight hundreds of pieces of hostile legislation, the resources to advance better health care for women and their families become thinner, and young women, women of color, poor women and those living in rural areas are the most disadvantaged. |
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http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/031704states.html
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| | UUA Programs & Services: Social Justice |
| | By affirming the inherent worth and dignity of every person, the right of individual conscience, and respect for human life, our tradition continues to support the choices of women, men, and families, providing tolerance and compassion even when those choices may differ from our own. | | | Threats to women and their rights are happening everyday in Congress and in the Courts. | | | *Because the issue of reproductive rights is what keeps me in the Unitarian Universalist movement, I keep an eye out for ways to help assure that Roe v. |
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http://www.uua.org/programs/justice/issues_reproductivehealth.html
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| | Women's Human Rights: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns |
| | our monthly email newsletter on women's human rights | | | Women's Human Rights: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns | | | Women can be seen, and finally heard, all over the world: protesting discrimination, speaking out for their economic rights, and demanding legal protection. |
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| | PAI ViewPoint: African Treaty Establishes Reproductive Rights as Human Rights |
| | Address womens rights in relation to HIV/AIDS and identify protection from HIV/AIDS as a key component of womens sexual and reproductive rights. | | | Explicitly articulate womens reproductive rights as human rights. | | | Although the Protocol to the ACHPR on the Rights of Women in Africa only legally applies to the 15 countries that have ratified it to date, the implications of this treaty extend far beyond Africa's shores. |
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http://www.populationaction.org/news/views/2005/12_12_Protocol.htm
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| | Bibliography: Health and Human Rights |
| | Strengthening human rights for women and men in matters relating to sexual behavior and reproduction. | | | Women's Reproductive Rights and the Politics of Fundamentalism: A View from Bangladesh. | | | Negotiating the Relationship of HIV/AIDS to Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights. |
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http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/humanrights/bibliographies/healthbib.reproductive.html
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| | UNFPA: POPULATION ISSUES: IMPROVING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: Protecting Reproductive Rights |
| | Particular emphasis was given to reproductive rights as a cornerstone of development, and to empowerment of women as being an important element in ensuring the exercise of these rights. | | | These rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health. | | | [R]eproductive rights embrace certain human rights that are already recognized in national laws, international human rights documents and other consensus documents. |
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| | CollegeNews.org - On 31st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Abortion Rights Too Often Taken for Granted, Says Pomona College Ethicist |
| | "So many women have grown up in an environment in which abortion, however it may be stigmatized, has been legal, that it is not surprising that there is not a more lively awareness of what it would mean to dramatically restrict women's abortion rights," she says. | | | Wade has waned because a generation of American women have taken for granted their right to have a safe and legal abortion, says a Pomona College ethicist. | | | It makes no sense, morally or medically, to ban DandX while allowing other PFT abortion techniques. |
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| | Feminist Majority Foundation |
| | This site is administered by the National Abortion Federation (NAF) in an effort to "educate and instruct health care professionals...in the safe and effective administration of mifepristone/misoprostol for early medical abortion." The site also contains information for women considering medical abortion. | | | Abortion and reproductive health care must be a part of standard medical training and practice. | | | Advocating a more extensive training of health practitioners to provide abortions, this site has interesting information and some links. |
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http://www.feminist.org/rrights/abrights_links.html
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| | Abortion |
| | The quality of care can vary widely among all medical facilities and since many women do not talk about their abortion experiences, it is often difficult to know what to look for when choosing an office to perform an abortion procedure. | | | Abortion is the most common outpatient surgical procedure in the country and, when performed by an experienced physician, it is extremely safe. | | | During a medical abortion, one can experience more intense cramping for longer periods of time. |
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| | Reproductive rights: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
| | (without any natural born rights of her own control, EHandler: no quick summary. | | | The universal declaration of human rights (also udhr) is a declaration adopted by the united nations general assembly (a/res/217, december 10 1948),... | | | A further extrapolation of this argument is Reproductive responsibility which argues that women and men should take full responsibility of their actions in regards to the potential fertility of a female. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/r/re/reproductive_rights.htm
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| | AlterNet: Racism and Reproductive Rights |
| | She wants more discussion on the lack of choices for low-income women, believing that many choose abortion precisely because they have no other option. | | | Silvia Henriquez, executive director of the Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and member of the steering committee, predicts that the focus on reproductive rights as part of a broader context will attract substantial numbers of Hispanic women. | | | Ross made sure to invite the many unseen organizations and advocates who have historically fought for reproductive justice in communities of color, as well as dozens of organizations from the antipoverty and antiracist movements, and those who work on HIV/AIDS, environmental justice, immigrants' rights, violence against women and criminal justice issues. |
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| | American Civil Liberties Union : Reproductive Rights : Abortion Bans |
| | Abortion Bans: An Affront to Women's Health and Rights | | | These bans dangerously interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, prohibiting doctors from performing abortions that they say are safe and among the best to protect womens health. | | | Because they jeopardize women's health and interfere with medical decision making, leading medical organizations -- including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists -- oppose these bans. |
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