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S Gruskin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Womens health and human Rights genesis of the health and human Rights movement editorial
Health and Human Rights, 1995Co-Authors: J Mann, S GruskinAbstract:In the first thematic issue of the Health and Human Rights publication the aim was to bring together some of the leading thinkers and activists in the field of Womens health and human Rights. It is believed that the clarity and power of the articles included in the issue will be inspiring both to those already working in this area and to all those concerned with the complex connections and profound inner coherence of the health and human Rights relationship. Such work in health and human Rights must be understood in light of the contribution that those working to advance the understanding of Womens human Rights and Womens health have brought to the movement. It is noted that over the years the modern health and human Rights movement has been advanced and expanded through the transformative insight analysis and action around Womens health Rights and dignity. Thus the linkage between Rights and health has been pioneered through the collaborative efforts of Womens health and Womens Rights advocates. Several examples of the synergy and power of the health and human Rights perspectives that may help illustrate this rapidly evolving area of research and advocacy are given.
J Mann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Womens health and human Rights genesis of the health and human Rights movement editorial
Health and Human Rights, 1995Co-Authors: J Mann, S GruskinAbstract:In the first thematic issue of the Health and Human Rights publication the aim was to bring together some of the leading thinkers and activists in the field of Womens health and human Rights. It is believed that the clarity and power of the articles included in the issue will be inspiring both to those already working in this area and to all those concerned with the complex connections and profound inner coherence of the health and human Rights relationship. Such work in health and human Rights must be understood in light of the contribution that those working to advance the understanding of Womens human Rights and Womens health have brought to the movement. It is noted that over the years the modern health and human Rights movement has been advanced and expanded through the transformative insight analysis and action around Womens health Rights and dignity. Thus the linkage between Rights and health has been pioneered through the collaborative efforts of Womens health and Womens Rights advocates. Several examples of the synergy and power of the health and human Rights perspectives that may help illustrate this rapidly evolving area of research and advocacy are given.
John Havard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Womens right to health and the beijing platform for action the retreat from cairo
Health and Human Rights, 1995Co-Authors: Marianne Haslegrave, John HavardAbstract:Womens health issues which received scant attention at the first three UN world conferences on women gained recognition when the 1987 Safe Motherhood Conference highlighted the numbers of women dying annually from pregnancy-related causes. Since then the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights the 1994 International Conferences on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 1995 Social Summit have recognized that women have a right to the highest attainable standard of health that reproductive health includes sexual health and that Womens health affects poverty unemployment and levels of social disintegration. By late 1995 the Commonwealth Medical Association convened a group known as "Advocacy for Womens Health" that has met regularly to promote a comprehensive gender-sensitive and human Rights approach to Womens health and to comment on draft documents for various conferences. This group prepared for the Fourth World Conference on Women with regional and inter-regional "roundtable" meetings and had a significant impact on the health content of drafts of the Platform for Action. The draft Platform for Action was finalized by the US Commission on the Status of Women with 40% of the text (including all references to "gender") bracketed to indicate a lack of consensus. The introductory Beijing Declaration and its proposed amendments failed to mention Womens health and the text of the Platform for Action would create problems in the field of reproductive health. Indeed the draft contains questionable terms such as "feticide" that cloud abortion issues. Re-enforcement of the Cairo consensus on providing reproductive health information and services and government commitment on the protection of Womens Rights to health is necessary.
Marianne Haslegrave - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Womens right to health and the beijing platform for action the retreat from cairo
Health and Human Rights, 1995Co-Authors: Marianne Haslegrave, John HavardAbstract:Womens health issues which received scant attention at the first three UN world conferences on women gained recognition when the 1987 Safe Motherhood Conference highlighted the numbers of women dying annually from pregnancy-related causes. Since then the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights the 1994 International Conferences on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 1995 Social Summit have recognized that women have a right to the highest attainable standard of health that reproductive health includes sexual health and that Womens health affects poverty unemployment and levels of social disintegration. By late 1995 the Commonwealth Medical Association convened a group known as "Advocacy for Womens Health" that has met regularly to promote a comprehensive gender-sensitive and human Rights approach to Womens health and to comment on draft documents for various conferences. This group prepared for the Fourth World Conference on Women with regional and inter-regional "roundtable" meetings and had a significant impact on the health content of drafts of the Platform for Action. The draft Platform for Action was finalized by the US Commission on the Status of Women with 40% of the text (including all references to "gender") bracketed to indicate a lack of consensus. The introductory Beijing Declaration and its proposed amendments failed to mention Womens health and the text of the Platform for Action would create problems in the field of reproductive health. Indeed the draft contains questionable terms such as "feticide" that cloud abortion issues. Re-enforcement of the Cairo consensus on providing reproductive health information and services and government commitment on the protection of Womens Rights to health is necessary.
J L Evans - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Womens Rights and childrens Rights challenges and opportunties editorial
Development, 2001Co-Authors: J L EvansAbstract:Judith L. Evans introduces the journals themes looking at the significant linkages between Womens Rights and childrens Rights. Evans argues that the two sets of Rights together need to be brought forward looking at the way they are interlinked through two conventions--Convention on the Rights of the Child and Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women--developed in the 1990s. The author presents some of the challenges and opportunities that a simultaneous focus on Womens and childrens Rights presents in terms of development work. (authors)
