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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 […]
country profile universal access to sexual and reproductive health – indonesia
Published in 2014
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Indonesia is an archipelago of approximately 17,000 islands, with a total population of 239 million people (2010 census).The country is home to about 1,340 ethnicities with different views on gender and sexuality issues and varying degrees of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including relevant healthcare services. About 49.79% of the people […]
country profile on universal access to sexual and reproductive rights: thailand
Published in 2014
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Following the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, Thailand put forward a Reproductive Health Policy in 1997, stating that “all Thai citizens, at all ages, must have [a] good reproductive life”. Nevertheless, the 1997 Thai Constitution and the subsequent 2007 Constitution, drafted under a military government, made no specific mention of sexual […]
bangkok cross-movement call on addressing poverty, food sovereignty, rights to food and nutrition, and sexual and reproductive health and rights
Published in 2014
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We, cross-movement activists, advocates and representatives of 16 organisations and networks working on addressing poverty, and achieving food sovereignty, food security, rights to adequate food and nutrition, women’s rights, gender justice, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues in and across Asia, gathered in Bangkok, Thailand on 10-11 September 2013 to deliberate on […]
arrow for change – labour migration, gender, and SRHR
Published in 2013
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Migration and population mobility has become a permanent facet of a rapidly globalising world, and the Asia-Pacific region is no exception. In 2010, Asia accounted for 27.5 million international migrants, representing close to 13% of the total global figure of 214 million. Women constituted 48% or almost half of that On the other hand, the […]
sexual and reproductive health and rights for all – now!
Published in 2013
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In 1994, one hundred and seventy nine (179) governments committed to advance the Programme of Action of the landmark International Conference for Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. The Programme of Action has put women’s empowerment, reproductive health, reproductive rights and sexual health at the centre of development. It has also shifted the paradigm from […]
ICPD+20 status of SRHR in asia-pacific
Published in 2013
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2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development’s Programme of Action, one of the landmark consensus documents, in which governments agreed to and signed off on commitments towards improving women’s sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. Monitoring government achievements and performance is a critical way of holding governments and […]
women and migration: an annotated bibliography
Published in 2013
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Migration is one of the most universal human experiences. We have all moved or have known others who have travelled from one place to another, whether it was across small distances within a country or across larger expanses of space to a different continent. In the highly globalised era of the 21st century, advances in […]
a regional meeting to build intermovement linkages in poverty, food sovereignty, food security, gender, and SRHR in south asia
Published in 2013
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“Intersectional Understandings: A Regional Meeting to Build Intermovement Linkages in Poverty, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Gender, and SRHR in South Asia,” was held on 10-11 September 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand. It brought together activists and advocates representing 16 organisations and networks working on poverty, food sovereignty, food security, women’s rights, gender justice, and SRHR issues […]
beyond ICPD and MDGs: NGO strategizing for SRHR in asia-pacific
Published in 2012
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At the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, representatives from governments, civil society, UN Agencies, and international institutions worked together on a Programme of Action (PoA) that was to be a landmark document in the history of international development. In adopting the ICPD PoA, 179 countries, including those of the Asia-Pacific, […]