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Promotion of Human Rights and Gender Equality Related to Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Among Youth in Low-Income Areas of Buenos Aires Suburbs, Argentina
BRIDGE, 2007In contexts of poverty, the sole fact of being young can be a cause of exclusion.DocumentRisk and Resilience: Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania
EngenderHealth, 2006Obstetric fistula is a hole that forms between the bladder and the vagina or between the rectum and the vagina during prolonged and obstructed child labour. Approximately two million girls and women are estimated to be living with fistula worldwide, yet fistula remains one of the most neglected issues in women's health and rights.DocumentInternational Youth Perspectives on Youth Abortion: a Collection of Essays, Poems and Drawings
Youth Coalition, 2007Many adolescent girls and young women throughout the world find themselves faced with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, often as a result of a lack of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services, and/or forced sexual relations. In February 2007, the Youth Coalition began the first of five National Abortion Advocacy Workshops in Paraguay.DocumentFreedom of Choice: A Youth Activist's Guide to Safe Abortion Advocacy
Youth Coalition, 2007This guide aims to build young people's capacity to advocate for safe abortion care services. It is aimed at young people, people working with young people, and sexual and reproductive health and rights advocates.DocumentWalking the Talk: Putting Women's Rights at the Heart of the HIV and AIDS Response
Voluntary Services Overseas, 2008?It is time to walk the talk on women, human rights and universal access to HIV and AIDS services?. This is the main message of this comprehensive report, which incorporates the voices and perspectives of women and girls from 13 different countries. Chapter 5 focuses on the challenges faced by women and girls who provide care for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.DocumentHidden: a profile of married adolescents in Northern Nigeria
Action Health Incorporated, 2006Research and programmes aimed at improving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents in Nigeria have largely focused on unmarried girls and boys. But early marriage is prevalent in Nigeria, particularly in the North. In the North-West of the country, for example, an estimated 73 percent of teenage girls are married, usually to older men chosen for them by their parents.DocumentEqual Opportunities for Women and Men in Kosovo
Kosovar Centre for Gender Studies, 2005What principles does the Kosovar Constitutional Framework establish around equal pay, equal treatment for women and men at the workplace, and pregnancy and motherhood, and how effective are they in practice?DocumentConflict, State Fragility and Women's Reproductive Health: The Case of Basilan, Philippines
Poverty Frontiers, 2006This research documents women's experiences during and since the armed conflict in the Basilan region of the Southern Philippines that took place between 2000 and 2003, and focuses particularly on the availability and adequacy of women's reproductive health services.DocumentThe Effect of Armed Conflict on the Marriage Market for Women: Results from Tajikistan
Poverty Frontiers, 2006What are the links between violent conflict, marriage markets and female reproductive behaviour? This short paper explores the impact of civil wars on household and individual behaviour, using the 1992 to 1998 conflict in Tajikistan as a case study.DocumentOver their dead bodies: denial of access to emergency obstetric care and therapeutic abortion in Nicaragua
Human Rights Watch, 2007Nicaragua is one of only three countries in the world to maintain a blanket ban on abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, or life- or health-threatening pregnancies. Such blanket abortion bans are incompatible with international human rights obligations, including obligations on the rights to life and health.Pages