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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 […]
arrow for change – health sector response to gender-based violence and srhr (spanish)
Published in 2015
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La violencia de género es una violación de los derechos humanos y afecta la salud sexual y reproductiva (SSR). Ampliamente presente y socialmente silenciada en la mayoría de los países de Asia-Pacífico, se reconoce cada vez más a la violencia de género como un grave problema de salud pública en la región. La violencia de […]
arrow for change – gender-based violence and srhr (supplement article)
Published in 2015
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Gender equality and the ability to fully exercise the human rights of women and girls, including the power to make decisions regarding their own bodies and live a life free of violence, is still a pending debt for most women and girls in the Latin American and the Caribbean region. In the region, 32 of […]
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 SRHR in latin america and caribbean countries
Published in 2013
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In July of 1993, in Oaxtepex, Mexico, the Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network convened the first meeting on “Women and Population Policies in Latin america and the Caribbean”, attended by 70 women from 18 countries, setting the tone for the feminist debate in the region and initiating the full incorporation of their membership […]
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 […]
arrow for change – repoliticising financing: re-energising political support for women’s health and SRHR
Published in 2011
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The road to self-reliance? Development aid, with its rapidly changing trends and cut–backs, has been a matter of extreme concern for hundreds of civil society organisations (CSO) involved in bringing social justice to vulnerable populations. The pursuit of the right to development and the role of people’s organisations in achieving this, including for sexual and […]
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.