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An Advocates Guide: Integrating Human Rights in Universal Access to Contraception
Published in 2017
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This guide, as the name suggests, is meant for use by advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) at the country level. The guide uses the recommendations made to national governments in the publication “Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services: Guidance and recommendations” published by the World Health […]
global south call to action at hlpf 2016
Published in 2016
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The Agenda 2030 pledges to “leave no one behind,” and to prioritize those who are farthest behind first. This cannot be achieved if the needs and rights of the people in the Global South regions are not prioritized. Nor can it be achieved if we do not consider the rights and needs of various constituencies […]
setting the adolescent and young people SRHR agenda beyond icpd+20
Published in 2014
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These Global South Adolescent and Young People Fact Sheets, have been developed as part of the ICPD+20 Global South SRHR Monitoring and Research Initiative steered by ARROW in partnership with Central and Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ASTRA), Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network (LACWHN), Egyptian Initiative for […]
ICPD+20 – status of SRHR in africa
Published in 2014
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The 20 year review of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action provides a unique opportunity to bring critical attention to adolescent and young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Africa. In a region where harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage continue to violate […]
rural women’s traveling journal on SRHR
Published in 2014
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This booklet documents 17 inspiring life-stories of rural women from 14 countries from the Global South who participated in the Women’s Travelling Journal on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (WTJ-SRHR). Following the success of the first women’s travelling journal in 2013, this second WTJ is a joint initiative of the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition […]
arrow for change – youth SRHR movements
Published in 2012
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Sex and sexuality, especially in relation to young people remain contentious issues. Young people receive conflicting messages about sex and sexuality. Sexuality education and health information programmes, where they exist, tend to paint sex and sexuality in a negative light, relating it to “guilt, fear and disease.” In the eyes of peers, sex is described […]
women of the world: laws and policies affecting their reproductive lives
Published in 2005
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Imagine a world in which the laws and policies of every country allowed women to fully enjoy their reproductive rights. While this is still a distant goal, a confluence of factors has enabled women’s health and rights advocates to bring it into focus. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 1995 […]
gender and women’s health – ideas for action
Published in 1997
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A collection of key papers and articles. Continue reading gender and women’s health – ideas for action at Arrow.
gender and women’s health – annotated bibliography
Published in 1997
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Feminist theory and research on the sociology of human reproduction have historically been 1 bound together as each has developed. Yet recently, sociologists of reproduction and women’s health have lost sight of core debates in feminist theory. They still tend to work with the assumption that feminism is an internally coherent body of thought, despite […]