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arrow for change – strengthening community participation and accountability in SRHR
Published in 2003
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Since the 1990s there has been renewed interest in community participation has stemmed from both the neo-liberal agenda of mobilising community resources due to cutback on social budgets, and the emergence of radical debates on rights of citizens to participate in policy decisions, monitoring and evaluation. In the sphere of health, the neo-liberal perspective is […]
arrow for change – eliminating violence against women through health services
Published in 2002
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Violence against women (VAW) in the forms of domestic violence, coercive sex, rape and trafficking in women, remains common in the lives of many Asian and Pacific women, seriously affecting their physical and psycho-social health. The prevalence of domestic violence, for example, ranges from 16 per cent in the Philippines to 67 per cent in […]
arrow for change – applying the CEDAW convention for the recognition of women’s health rights
Published in 2002
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arrow for change – risky business: women and occupational health
Published in 2001
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While economists and development professionals generally extol the benefits of industrial development, few mention the hidden costs of increased deaths and fatalities at work. Women are amongst the injured and dead as they have “enjoyed” the greatest rise in labour force participation, mainly in lowly paid, low skill manufacturing jobs. Increasingly women’s work is dispersed, […]
women’s health needs and rights in southeast asia – a beijing monitoring report
Published in 2001
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In the Fourth World Conference on Women that took place in Beijing in 1995 governments agreed on the Platform For Action (PFA). It highlighted twelve areas of critical concern, one of which is women and health. This report is an outcome of the first regional effort in Asia- Pacific by women NGOs to systematically monitor […]
arrow for change – women’s well-being: reframing mental health
Published in 2001
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Women need to have control of their lives in order to be physically and mentally healthy. Poverty, gender power relations, gender discrimination and violence against women as the main social determinants of women’s mental health have reduced this control and thus these factors need to be urgently addressed. Central to women’s NGO work in Asia […]
arrow for change – maternal mortality: why women need not die
Published in 2001
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To this day, women continue to die from the age-old and most common complications of pregnancy and childbirth – hemorrhage, infections, unsafe abortion, obstructed labour, and the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. In 1995, the latest estimated number of maternal deaths globally was 515,000. Of these deaths, 53 per cent (272,000) occurred in Africa, 42 per […]