Recently added articles from Women's Health Collection:

Introduction.(women's human rights)

Jan 01, 2003 ... Over 50 years ago, the United Nations passed the historic Universal Declaration of Human Rights. More recently, the last decade of the 20th century saw world conference after world conference on women's rights. But just how much has the status of women really improved in the past few ...

More humane human rights. (Human rights: unfinished business).

Jan 01, 2003; Millan, Cecilia ... Undoubtedly one of the most important changes for women in the past few decades has been the recognition and exercise of their rights. The most relevant legislative changes were achieved through international conventions that have become law in participating countries. It cannot ...

Women's rights: taking stock. (Human rights: unfinished business).(politics, international law, and discrimination against women)

Jan 01, 2003; Becerra, Lidia Casas ... The protection of women's rights has been a slow and at times rocky journey. In the last decade, and especially since the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993, the women's human rights movement has undergone tremendous changes and faced great challenges in both the legal and ...

Health: a basic right or a luxury? (Human rights: unfinished business).(women's health and human rights protection)

Jan 01, 2003; Leon, Irene ... With health now understood as the optimum state of well-being, (1) women's health issues make especially tangible the interdependence and interconnection of all human rights. Women's health issues are clearly linked to gender relations and social context, which either foment or impede the ...

The impact of economic restructuring on female employment: labor policy and interactions between government and economy. (Human rights: unfinished business).(working women and employee rights)

Jan 01, 2003; Acevedo, Doris M. ... Work is, first and foremost, a social need, the human activity that permits social reproduction through the production of the material goods and services needed for human subsistence and development. In market economies, people without material goods engage in a variety of economic ...

People are fundamental: promoting human rights. (Human rights: unfinished business).

Jan 01, 2003; Garrido, Lucy ... "We face the need to radicalize the perspective of human rights of ALL HUMAN BEINGS as the fundamental priority for ushering in a new human consciousness. Bridging the distance between economy and society, between economy and nature, between nature and society, is central to the ...

Feeling human rights: a holistic-feminist perspective. (Human rights: unfinished business).

Jan 01, 2003; Obando, Ana Elena ... We have inherited a new millennium full of serious dilemmas and profound contradictions. While some would say that human civilization is moving forward thanks to technological and scientific progress and a revolutionary movement that has made half of humanity visible, at the same time ...

Information, communications and new technologies: a strategic objective. (Human rights: unfinished business).

Jan 01, 2003; Boix, Montserrat ... Communication and information are fundamental aspects of the debate on women's human rights, as is the open discussion from feminist and gender perspectives on the difficulties that women have had formulating and carrying out strategies in this area. In the past few years we have had the ...

Towards full citizenship: sexual orientation and human rights. (Human rights: unfinished business).

Jan 01, 2003; Jitsuya, Nelly ... Eighteen years ago, in some feminist circles we "out-of-the-closet" lesbians could be counted on the fingers of one hand. In fact, some people used their fingers to point us out and help with the count. When we first formed the Grupo de Lesbianas Feministas (GALF, Lesbian Feminist Group) ...

Lesbians, health and human rights: a Latin American perspective: a contribution for discussion and reflection. (Human rights: unfinished business).

Jan 01, 2003; Eiven, Laura ... Foreward This document aims to stimulate reflection and dialogue among our colleagues in movements involving lesbian, women's, feminist, health and human rights issues both within and outside of Latin America. It is based on our own experiences and thoughts. We wish to thank the ...

Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights: challenges for contemporary feminism. (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights).

Jan 01, 2003 ... The following shares the preliminary results of a survey of women's organizations throughout the region undertaken by the Comite Latinoamericano y del Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM, Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights). The ...

Sexual and Reproductive Rights: exercising citizenship. (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights).

Jan 01, 2003; Barbery, Ximena Machicao ... "Because 'you can't talk about that,' our societies don't discuss sexuality openly and democratically; because 'you can't do that,' illegal abortions cause illness and death; because 'you can't touch that,' love and pleasure are prohibited. Poverty is not just material; sexual repression ...

Abortion as a human right: possible strategies in unexplored territory. (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights).(human rights protection and abortion laws)

Jan 01, 2003 ... Abortion as a human right was the focus of the meeting "Aborto: Derechos de las mujeres frente a la conyuntura mundial" (Abortion: Women's Rights in Today's World) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 4-12, 2001, by the Coordinating Committee of the September 28 Campaign for the ...

Women's perspectives on human rights in the Catholic Church. (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights).

Jan 01, 2003; Orozco, Yury Puello ... "Diversity and differences do not diminish equality, but reinforce and heighten it. That's why equality is closely aligned with justice. In a radical, democratic vision of the Church, equality means equal access, equal respect, equal rights and well-being. It must manifest itself in ...

Alternative Catholic views on abortion. (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights).

Jan 01, 2003; Jurkewicz, Regina Soares ... When considering the issue of abortion, the first thing that most people think of is whether they are for or against. But we want to approach the matter from a different angle. The act of abortion is almost always accompanied by a great deal of suffering. Women who have abortions feel an ...

Special session on children: a response to the needs of children and adolescents worldwide? (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights).

Jan 01, 2003 ... This essay was prepared by the Working Group for the Worm Summit for Children (CRC+10) of the Red Latinoamericana y Caribena de Jovenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (REDLAC, Latin American and Caribbean Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights). Societies ...

The impact of child abuse. (Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights).

Jan 01, 2003; Pauluzzi, Liliana ... Sexual abuse of children is a crime against childhood, but it is still relatively well hidden. Our society is not yet prepared to eradicate this disease, which spreads like a virus from one generation to the next, reproducing itself within the walls of the home. If we examine ...

Women, poverty, human rights and HIV/AIDS: Argentina. (National Contexts).

Jan 01, 2003; Bianco, Mabel ... In many of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, the new millennium has meant a drop in living standards and an important increase in poverty which mainly affect women, children and youth. This situation is the direct consequence of the development and growth strategies pursued ...

Colombian women: survival amidst war. (National Contexts).(social, economic, and psychological impacts of war)

Jan 01, 2003; Colorado, Martha ... "The women from Pavarando want and need to raise our voices throughout our country and around the world to share what we have been living through for the past nine months and to present our proposals to transform and to help others transform this situation. "Before, we didn't ...

Argentine women: in the crossfire. (National Contexts).

Jan 01, 2003; Beltran, Maria Jose Lubertino ... Undeniably, advances have been achieved in drawing attention to women's human rights in the collective consciousness of most women. We cannot deny the triumphs in the legislative, discursive, academic and institutional realms. But if we understand and interpret human rights in their full ...