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access to quality gender-sensitive health services
Published in 2003
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The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) is committed to supporting efforts in mainstreaming gender perspectives in health, population and reproductive health policies and programmes. One of ARROW’s strategies for policy advocacy is to build a body of knowledge on action research that focuses on analyses of health policies and programmes. ARROW therefore […]
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 – 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 […]
arrow for change – the health rights of migrant women
Published in 2000
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Current globalisation strategies, restructuring of economies through structural adjustment programmes and removal of protective regulations for cheap, temporary contractual workers favour migrant labour. Poverty, conflicts, environmental catastrophes, forced displacement and changes in production processes have increased migration. The demand for cheap, flexible, contractual and deregulated labour has also encouraged highly organised recruitment. The demand for […]
arrow for change – older women’s health: facing the challenges
Published in 1999
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In a region where women continue to be valued less than men, older women’s health reflects their life-long experience of discrimination, deprivation and neglect. The older women of Asia-Pacific today face similar situations of poverty, malnutrition, poor health care, physical overwork and unhealthy work environments in their younger years. Along with high infant mortality rates, […]
arrow for change – critical steps forward: five years after the cairo conference
Published in 1999
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NGO perspectives on what is critical to improving the further implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action are clear, with much commonality throughout the regions including Asia and the Pacific. These have been articulated through a review process which has included national discussions and NGO meetings, regional NGO consultations, and several international meetings including the […]
arrow for change – addressing rape: the urgency of action
Published in 1998
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Incest, coerced pregnancy, mass rape, ethnic cleansing, forced prostitution, date rape, marital rape, gang rape, rape in conflict situations and rape as a weapon of war- are not about violent sex but power or sexual violence. That one out of every five women is a survivor of rape constitutes the prevalence of rape globally, and […]