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    Human Rights, Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion-related Care: Reference Information and Illustrative Cases

    IPAS, 2002
    How can international human rights standards be applied to unwanted pregnancy and abortion-related care? This document provides reference information and illustrative case studies to address this question. Part one explains how international conventions are adopted and how their implementation by States is monitored. Part two introduces the right to health as defined in international treaties.
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    The Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context: Conceptual Issues, Research Questions and Policy Options

    2007
    The dynamics of care are receiving more attention from activists, researchers and policy makers than they did 20, even 10, years ago. In part, this is because women's massive entry into the paid work force has squeezed the time previously allocated to the unpaid care of family and friends.
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    Crafting an Abortion Law that Respects Women's Rights: Issues to Consider

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2004
    The safety and accessibility of abortion depends largely on the laws and policies that regulate it. This briefing paper argues that in drafting legislation or regulations regarding abortion, governments should make women's human rights?their rights to reproductive autonomy, equality and health?the primary consideration.
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    Abortion Worldwide: Twelve Years of Reform

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2007
    In 1995, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) expressly called upon governments to re-examine restrictive abortion laws. The Beijing mandate reflects a global trend toward abortion law liberalisation - a trend that first gained momentum in the late 1960s and continues today.
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    Expanding Access to Safe Abortion: Strategies for Action

    1998
    Agreements reached in international conferences on women, population, and human rights, as well as human rights treaties, are powerful but under-utilised tools for action to promote women's access to safe abortion services.
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    Abortion and Young People

    International Programme on Sexuality of Rutgers Nisso Groep, 2007
    What is abortion? What are the types of induced abortion and how is it done? What are the risks involved? Are other young people also trying to have an abortion? These are some of the questions addressed in this practical and accessible brochure which seeks to provide correct information to young people, without fear or guilt, and to dispel the myths that exist around abortion.
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    BRIDGE Report 38: Challenges to women's reproductive health: maternal mortality

    BRIDGE, 1996
    Why, despite continual technological and medical advance, do one out of every fifty women in developing countries still die in pregnancy and childbirth' This paper explains how socio-economic, cultural and political factors make women vulnerable to maternal death. It also explores their capacity to access maternal health services and gender biases within these services.
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    Addressing Violence Against Women in HIV Testing and Counselling: A Meeting Report

    World Health Organization, 2006
    This meeting report is an outcome of a consultation held in 2006 of practitioners, researchers and policy makers on how HIV testing and counselling programmes can take into account and address intimate partner violence and other concerns related to women.
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    Water and Sanitation for Disabled People and Other Vulnerable Groups: Designing Services to Improve Accessibility

    Loughborough University of Technology, 2005
    Based on three years of research in low-income countries, this book provides a range of practical low-cost solutions to improve accessibility to household water and sanitation facilities for children, women and men who experience limitations in carrying out such activities.
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    Iraq: The Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards

    Iraq Legal Development Project, 2005
    Although women in Iraq have a 25 percent quota in political representation, they still face considerable obstacles in their quest to secure their human rights. This paper assesses the degree to which Iraqi women in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto) enjoy the protection of their rights as guaranteed under international agreements.

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