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Book Shelf This issue of bookshelf reviews some of the latest analysis, advocacy, programming, training, and research literature from writers exploring how to advance sexual and reproductive rights and health in the context of globalization, health reform, and the Millennium Development Goals.
Advancing Safe Motherhood Through Human Rights Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, O. Andrew F. Wilson and Susan E. Scarrow.WHO, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, Geneva, 2001 This manual explains how a human rights approach can be used at a country level to improve maternal health. It aims to facilitate initiatives by government agencies, NGOs, and international organizations to foster compliance with human rights in order to respect, protect and fulfill women’s rights in relation to safe motherhood. It includes sections on understanding the dimensions and causes of unsafe motherhood, understanding sources of human rights and government obligations to implement human rights, and strategies for implementation including education and training, negotiation, and mechanisms to ensure accountability. It is available free of charge from WHO or can be
downloaded in html or PDF formats from: www.who.int/repro ductive-health/publications.
A Decade after Cairo: Women’s Health in a Free Market Economy Sumati Nair and Preeti Kirbat with Sarah Sexton. The Corner House Briefing 31. The Corner House, Sturminster Newton, 2004 Available at www.thecornerhou se.org.uk This briefing paper takes a critical look at the foundations of the Cairo Programme of Action from 1994, and how certain women’s groups were able to influence its agenda. Ten years after Cairo, women’s reproductive and sexual health and rights are no closer to reality for most women of the world. The paper presents four inter-related processes in explanation: the decline and collapse of public health services in many countries, the negative effects of neo-liberal economic policies on women’s health generally, the restriction of women’s rights due to rising religious fundamentalism, and development policies undermined by neo-Malthusianism. It concludes that in the past decade it has become increasingly clear that the struggle for reproductive and sexual rights must become an alliance to promote the
democratic transformation of societies overall and the elimination of gender, class, racial, and ethnic injustice.
Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity (Basic Bioethics) Gita Sen, Asha George and Piroska Ostlin (eds), MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002 ISBN 0262692732 Engendering International Health presents the work of leading researchers on gender equity in international health. The papers demonstrate how deepseated gender biases in health research and in policy institutions, combined with a lack of accessible, well-articulated evidence together serve to downgrade the importance of gender perspectives in health. The book’s gender analysis is crosscut by concerns for other equity issues including class and race. The central premise of this collection is t
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