Discusses the highlights of a 2-day workshop organized by Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) held in Antigua, Guatemala. The advocacy workshop which coincided with the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN) members consultation meeting in October 2010 focused on access to safe and legal abortion.
An interview with Haitian physician Lise Marie Dejéan, executive director of Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen (SOFA) or the Solidarity with Haitian Women, who narrates the daily struggles, the difficulties faced by women's organizations, and government's slow recovery effort.
Discusses highlights of the workshop organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network in Guatemala in October 2010 which focused on positioning and promoting in the region the agenda of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) adopted 15 years ago in 1994 in Cairo, Egypt.
About the Colectiva Mujer y Salud or Women and Health Collective from the Dominican Republic leadership in coordinating efforts to decriminalize abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean through the September 28 Campaign. Notes that the Campaign's action is driven by factors including restrictive abortion laws, persecution of women who engage in the practice despite the risks, institutional obstacles, and interference from organized religion.
Reflects on women's health and rights in Latin America and the Caribbean amid new realities in today's globalized world. Explores the role of states towards ensuring equity and equality of outcomes in health between men and women, emphasizing the unmet obligation of most states to ensure full enjoyment by women of their right to health.
Discusses the highlights of the second members coordination meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN) in October 2010 which focused on seeking ways to widen participation and representation from the membership throughout the region.
Reviews the history of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network (LACWHN), a women's organization founded in 1984 in Colombia for the defense and promotion of women's health and rights. Discussed are the diverse experiences, key achievements, major challenges, and future directions for the network.
Focuses on the November 25 International Day Campaign to stop gender-based violence, an international initiative which has become part of the United Nations' efforts. Underscores the need to pursue heightened action on a broad front to combat and eliminate unjustified violence against women and girls.
Presents the Antigua Declaration of the feminist and women's organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean adopted at the closing of their 2010 meeting in Antigua, Guatemala. Highlights concern by women's groups in the region regarding the slow implementation of the agreements in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt.
