Reproductive Rights and Health Movements
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Window on the World
Reproductive Rights and Health Movements
This issue of Window on theWorld surveys a selection of international, regional and national organizations engaged in promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights and economic justice. Advocacy, research and policy-making initiatives are highlighted and website links provided for readers who want to investigate or engage more deeply.
Global and international Centre for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) http://www.genderhealth.org CHANGE is a US-based non-governmental organization focused on the effects of US international policy on the health and rights of women, girls and vulnerable populations. CHANGE promotes a reorientation of family planning programmes in support of a stronger rights perspective embracing a broad definition of ‘informed choice,’ whereby individuals have the conditions and means necessary to make autonomous decisions on their own behalf and are enabled to carry out those decisions in the context of their personal relationships. This implies personal agency and negotiating power, access to a range of information and options, community support for rights, and access to effective means of redress when rights are violated. CHANGE spearheaded a multidimensional research and advocacy effort looking at the implications of health reforms for reproductive health and rights. Field research was undertaken in India and Tanzania, exploring how health sector reforms are affecting critical health programmes and services, such as access to safe abortion, STI diagnostics and treatment, and contraceptive supplies, and asked whether current reform strategies have the potential to promote gender equity and reproductive health and rights. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) http://www.dawn.org.fj DAWN is a 20-year-old network of women scholars and activists from the global South, covering Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific. DAWN offers holistic feminist analyses on development debates and initiatives, grounding their work in women’s real experiences and in women’s collective strategies and visions. DAWN’s research and advocacy work is focused on four theme areas: the political economy of globalization; sexual and reproductive health and rights; political restructuring and social transformation; and sustainable livelihoods. DAWN’s website includes ‘Reproductive Rights Watch’ (a news page on SRHR), as well as ‘DAWN Informs’ a newsletter published in three languages as an advocacy resource and networking tool. DAWN is Development (2005) 48(4), 144–150. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100196
Window on the World undertaking a global policy research project on Health Sector Reform, Maternal Mortality and Abortion, led by Sonia CorreŒa, which aims at better understanding how health reform processes are affecting national responses to maternal mortality and postabortion care. A first report of studies from Latin America is expected to be published soon. Family Care International http://www.familycareintl.or
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