Recently added articles from Women's Health Journal:
Invitation to Second LACWHN Members Consultation Meeting (September 2010): 25 years, 25 countries. For women's health and lives.(FROM THE COORDINATING OFFICE)(Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network.)
Jan 01, 2009; Gonzalez, Nirvana ... The year 2009 is a milestone for the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network. Since LACWHN's creation in Tenza, Colombia, in 1984, we have worked unceasingly for 25 years, coordinating organizations that promote women's health in the region. Our ongoing efforts have ...
Pre-consultation questionnaire for LACWHN members.(Appendix)(Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network.)
Jan 01, 2009 ... This questionnaire was emailed to all LACWHN members and distributed among those attending the March 16th meeting at the XI Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting in Mexico City. We encourage any members who have not yet filled out the questionnaire to do so at their earliest ...
Sexual and reproductive health and rights: human rights and civil rights.(MAY 28)
Jan 01, 2009 ... This year, the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, LACWHN, commemorated May 28, the International Day of Action for Women's Health, by celebrating women's efforts to urge governments and policymakers to recognize sexual and reproductive health and their associated rights ...
Challenges, strategies and ways forward for feminism.(XI EFLAC)
Jan 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 11th Latin American and Caribbean Feminist Meeting--the XI EFLAC, after the title of the event in Spanish--was held in Mexico City, March 16-20, 2009. The meeting culminated with a dynamic final plenary in which speakers analyzed various aspects of the ...
Caribbean coalition to combat violence against women and HIV.
Jan 01, 2009 ... Violence against women is increasing women's and girls' vulnerability to HIV in the Caribbean region. This stark message emerged from the March 4 launch of the Caribbean Coalition on Women, Girls and AIDS (CCWA) by the UNAIDS Caribbean Regional Support Team in Port of Spain, Trinidad. ...
Fifteen years later ... the debt to women and girls continues.(TOWARDS THE ICPD+15)(Conference notes)
Jan 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the UN Headquarters, March 30 to April 3, the 42nd Session of the Commission on Population and Development looked at "The contribution of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development to the internationally agreed ...
Emergency contraception outlawed.(HONDURAS)
Jan 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On April 2, 2009, the Honduran Congress signed a law prohibiting emergency contraception throughout the country. This decision, a violation of women's sexual and reproductive human rights, is a serious setback not only in the context of Honduras, but for ...
The government of the Dominican Republic is violating women's human rights: LACWHN public declaration on the constitutional reform.
Jan 01, 2009 ... The Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, LACWHN, is a regional network of organizations that defend, promote and demand full respect for women's human rights. From this perspective and in keeping with our ethical and political principles for action, we manifest our most ...
Constitutional and penal reforms should enhance women's rights, not limit them.(DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)
Jan 01, 2009 ... The following is a public statement issued by Amnesty International, April 24, 2009. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Constitutional and legal reforms now underway in the Dominican Republic could lead to violations of women's human rights, Amnesty International warned today ....
Femicide cases from Ciudad Juarez presented to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Jan 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Inter-American Court of Human Rights held its 39th Special Session during April 27-30, 2009, in Santiago, Chile, where the Court heard the case Gonzalez and Others ("Cotton Field") vs. Mexico, on the negligence of this country to protect several women ...
Violence against women, a serious violation of human rights: public declaration on the Cotton Field case.
Jan 01, 2009 ... Since 1993, civil organizations working along the border in Ciudad Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, have been registering and denouncing the disappearances and murder of women, a situation in which the local, state and federal authorities have acted in a discriminatory, ...
Supreme Court backs voluntary interruption of pregnancy.(MEXICO)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a vote of eight to three, the National Supreme Court of Mexico ruled that the State is not obligated to protect life from the moment of conception, backing the 2007 law that decriminalizes voluntary abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy ....
Femicide/feminicide: extreme gender violence.(DYING BECAUSE THEY ARE WOMEN)
Jan 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Femicide is on the extreme end of a continuum of anti-female terror that includes a wide variety of verbal and physical abuse, such as rape, torture, sexual slavery (particularly in prostitution), incestuous and extrafamilial child sexual abuse, physical ...
A look at feminicide in Mexico: 2007-2008.
Jan 01, 2009 ... The report from the Observatorio Ciudadano Nacional del Feminicidio (OCNF, National Citizen Feminicide Observatory), entitled Una mirada del feminicidio en Mexico: 2007-2008, was part of a collective effort by member organizations working together to uncover gender-based killings of women ....
We need to train officials in the justice system.(GUATEMALA)(Interview)
Jan 01, 2009; Castaneda, Sandra ... An Interview with Giovanna Lemus Bearing in mind the scope and magnitude of femicide in Guatemala, how have civil society organizations monitored relevant government actions? In an initial stage, about 11 years ago, the Grupo Guatemalteco de Mujeres began to document ...
What is femicide?
Jan 01, 2009; Vasquez, Patsili Toledo ... 1. Femicide, Violence Against Women, Gender-based Violence In recent years, we have seen greater public awareness with regard to violence against women--especially violence that occurs between romantic partners or former partners--and the reaction of the judicial system in these ...
