Recently added articles from Women's Health Journal:
You can be a feminist and be against abortion ... but you are wrong! Frances Kissling.(Interview)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Frances Kissling, the founder of the United States organization Catholics for a Free Choice, has long been a committed champion of women's right to access safe, legal abortion. Her prodigious efforts have drawn special attention to the fact that Catholic women can make the personal ...
To promote the decriminalization of abortion, we must draw on our skills and expertise: Marta Lamas.(Interview)
Oct 01, 2008; ... GIRE, the Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida (Reproductive Choice Information Group) is a touchstone in Mexico and throughout the region on issues of sexual and reproductive rights and above all on abortion. The active participation of GIRE in the women's movement has been of ...
Abortion in Chile: contributions to the debate from women's perspective.
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article was originally presented at the debate forum, Legalizacion del Aborto en Chile, No Abortemos el Debate (On the Legalization of Abortion in Chile, Let's Not Abort the Debate), organized by Corporacion Humanas and the Foro Red de Salud y Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (Forum ...
Catholic by baptism, feminist by choice.
Oct 01, 2008; ... The author is the president of Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir-Chile (Catholics for the Right to Decide, Chile), a member organization of the Red Latinoamericana de Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir (Latin American Network of Catholics for the Right to Decide). "We are Catholic women ...
Abortion for health-related reasons: an urgently needed debate.
Oct 01, 2008; ... The authors belong to the PROGENERO research team at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, which undertook the 2007 study on reinstating abortion in Chile for reasons related to the woman's health. The research was carried out with a contribution from a fund administered by the ...
Recent publications and promotional materials.
Oct 01, 2008 ... Alejandra Lopez Gomez and Elina Carril Berro Entre el alivio y el dolor. Mujeres, aborto voluntario y subjetividad Montevideo: Trilce, 2008. 133 p. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Between Relief and Grief: Women, Voluntary Abortion and Subjectivity shares women's stories of ...
Human rights for women, now!(FROM THE COORDINATING OFFICE)
Oct 01, 2008 ... The commemoration on December 10, 2008, of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the perfect opportunity to once again demand respect for women's rights in equal conditions with men. Despite the official discourses of governments and international agencies ...
Recognize, denounce and stop violence against women: November 25.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Violence against women is a worldwide phenomenon. Nevertheless, there is still a tremendous silence on the part of society with regard to this problem, and it is usually excused as a private matter. Thanks to the unflagging efforts of women's ...
Approved by the majority, rejected in hypocrisy: Uruguay's law to defend sexual and reproductive health.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2008 ... On Tuesday, November 11, 2008, the Uruguayan Senate finally approved the bill for the Law to Defend Sexual and Reproductive Health, with 17 out of 30 senators voting in favor of the bill. Just a few days later, President Tabare Vazquez vetoed the law. Not even the overwhelming support by ...
President's veto an insult to democracy.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)
Oct 01, 2008 ... The president of Uruguay, socialist physician Tabare Vazquez, vetoed the Law to Defend Sexual and Reproductive Health, ignoring the widespread support for the law among the citizenry and overriding the decision of both chambers of Parliament, which had passed the bill. In light of this ...
Free and safe abortion: a demand for social justice, human rights and democracy: a public declaration of women's networks, coalitions, campaigns and organizations in the region.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)
Oct 01, 2008 ... In commemoration of September 28, Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean, women's networks, coalitions, campaigns and organizations from the region issued a public declaration calling for abortion as women's human right: "More than 4 million ...
Triumphs and challenges for sexual rights and reproductive rights in the United States.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)
Oct 01, 2008 ... With President-elect Barack Obama already making more progress to take the helm of the nation than any U.S. president in history, the movement for sexual and reproductive rights in this country is taking stock of several gains and some sobering setbacks. In the November ...
World AIDS Day: women are demanding!(NEWS AND MEETINGS)
Oct 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In commemoration of World AIDS Day, December 1, the movements and international campaigns concerned with the epidemic's impact on women and girls joined to denounce governments' and international agencies' failure to respond to the feminization of AIDS ....
LACWHN: new itinerant university courses.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)(Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network)
Oct 01, 2008 ... Since 1998, the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network has offered the International Courses on "Gender Perspectives in Health" as part of the Itinerant University (IU) project in the region with the following general objectives: * To provide tools for understanding ...
Measuring impact will be the Itinerant University's greatest challenge: Maria Isabel Matamala.(Interview)
Apr 01, 2008; ... In 1998, the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network kicked off a new program to promote the strategy of human resources training: the Itinerant University (IU). The team of well-known feminist activists and researchers who give the courses travel to the different countries in ...
Beyond human resources training, the Itinerant University has become a political exercise: Sandra Castaneda.(Interview)
Apr 01, 2008; ... With the 2004 Itinerant University in Ecuador, Sandra Castaneda, Program Coordinator for the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, took on the responsibility of coordinating this initiative, which is today LACWHN's primary human resources training program. A decade after the ...
Safe, legal abortion: a call for social justice, human rights and democracy.(FROM THE COORDINATING OFFICE)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Over 4 million women in Latin American and the Caribbean have abortions every year, most of them in clandestine circumstances at great risk to their health and lives and in fear of imprisonment. This situation implies a serious hazard to their physical and mental health and constitutes a ...
Historic ruling in Mexico City: national Supreme Court recognizes the Law on the Legal Termination Of Pregnancy.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)
Apr 01, 2008 ... On August 28, 2008, the full session of Mexico's Supreme Court, the Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion (SCJN) ruled in favor of the constitutionality of the Law on the Legal Termination of Pregnancy (LTP), which allows abortion until the 12th week of gestation at the woman's request, ...
Members of parliament sign declaration against abortion: Central America.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)
Apr 01, 2008 ... In recent months, especially following the Vatican's announcement of its international campaign against abortion and the First Meeting of the World Front of Parliamentarians and Heads of State for Life (Santiago, Chile, January 2007), there have been a number of attacks against sexual ...
Regional efforts to defend sexual and reproductive rights.(NEWS AND MEETINGS)
Apr 01, 2008 ... Throughout the region, we are witnessing situations similar to those in Mexico and Central America with concerted attacks on women's right to freedom of reproductive choice being orchestrated by groups with connections to the Catholic Church. Brazil. In early July, the Justice ...