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With Women Worldwide - A Compact to End HIV/AIDS (IWHC)
Sexual and reproductive rights are a pivotal neglected priority in HIV/AIDS policy, programming and resource allocation. Failure to protect the human rights of girls and women, including their right to health and their right
to live free of sexual coercion and violence, fuels the pandemic. Universal access to sexual and reproductive health service. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Mainstreaming a gender perspective in IFAD's operations
During IFAD’s 25 years of existence, gender equality and women’s empowerment have gained increasing importance, both as objectives and as instruments for poverty reduction. In its operations, IFAD aims to: expand women’s access to and control over fundamental assets – capital, land, knowledge and technologies; strengthen women’s agency – their deci. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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An IFAD approach to gender mainstreaming: The experience of Latin America and the Caribbean
This publication documents IFAD's experiences in gender mainstreaming in Latin America and the Caribbean. It describes why gender mainstreaming is important to the region, plots the development of the Fund's integrated gender approach and highlights key strengths and weaknesses of the ongoing process. More specific sector approaches and tools are d. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Healthy Cities Contest Seeks Entries
The Third International Active Cities, Healthy Cities Contest is seeking entries from towns and cities in Latin America and the Caribbean that have sponsored initiatives to encourage healthy living and improve the quality of life for their residents. Past winners have included:
* Belo Horizonte, Brazil's "City Streets" initiative, which prom. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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"Best Gender Practices" Honored on International Women's Day
A Bolivian project that reduced deaths of mothers and children in rural areas and a Mexican effort to improve diabetes care for men and women were honored as winners of the first "Best Practices Incorporating a Gender Equality Perspective in Health" contest at an observance of International Women's Day, held Mar. 8 at Pan American Health Organizati. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Researchers Report that Better Screening, Treatment, and Affordable Vaccines Can Prevent Doubling of Cervical Cancer Deaths in Latin America
Mexico City, May 12, 2008 — Thirty-three thousand women in Latin America and the Caribbean die each year of preventable cervical cancer, caused by a virus that infects 20 percent of men and women in the region and as many as 30 percent of the youngest women, according to a new study. Dramatic new opportunities offered by better screening, treatment. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Convocatoria Fondo Fiduciario para Eliminar la Violencia contra las Mujeres
El Fondo Fiduciario para Eliminar la Violencia contra las Mujeres de la ONU (UN Trust Fund) convoca a presentación de propuestas para el ciclo de 2008. La convocatoria se abre para los de mecanismos de gobierno a nivel nacional y local, organizaciones y redes de la sociedad civil – incluyendo organizaciones no-gubernamentales (ONGs), organizaciones. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE)
The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) is a network of Gender Focal Points in United Nations offices, specialized agencies, funds and programmes. The Network has played a central role in promoting gender equality throughout the United Nations system and in follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 . . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Short History of CEDAW Convention
Equality of rights for women is a basic principle of the United Nations. The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations sets as one of the Organization's central goals the reaffirmation of "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women". Article 1 proclaims that one of the p. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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New CD-Rom Documents 25 Years of Work in Eliminating Discrimination against Women (January 2008)
A new CD-ROM issued by the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women provides easy access to 25 years of work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Following an introduction and overview of the Committee’s work, the CD-ROM provides the full text of all concluding comments issued by the Committee since it. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Campaign Launch of Women Won't Wait - Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Millennium Plaza Hotel, New York, New York. The "Women Won't Wait" press conference was the official launch of the campaign with Mary Robinson as the prominent speaker at the launch. Members of the eight-person panel introduced the "Women Won't Wait" campaign and its mission. The panelists' presentations highlighted the campaign's report, "Show Us . . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Being HIV Positive (or Being Perceived as Being HIV Positive) Can Increase the Risk of Violence
* Violence by a Sexual Partner - Often women are the first in a partnership to learn they are HIV positive (because of ante-natal testing, for instance), which can result in blame and violence from their partners; * Violence by Family/In-Laws/Friends/Community - Because of stigma, discrimination, and fear, a known HIV-positive sero-status can incre. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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VAW/G Increases the Risk of HIV Infection/Re-Infection
VAW/G Increases the Risk of HIV Infection/Re-Infection
* Violent and/or Forced/Coerced Sex - Tears or lacerations in the vagina or anus increase the risk of HIV transmission. Violence, force, roughness, and vaginal/anal dryness can all increase the number of tears and lacerations in the vagina or anus.
* Lack of Power to Negotiate Safer. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006)
Strengthening Resistance focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. The report uses a human rights lens to focus on critical political challenges and on innovative strategies used by activists worldwide as they respond to the links between violence and HIV/AIDS. Fr. . .
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12 May 2008 |
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Anuradha Bhattacharjee
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HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Literature Review
Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, August 2006. This is a review of publications addressing aspects of the intersection between gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV. A large body of literature exists on the negative impacts of societies’ stringent ascription of
gender roles on vulnerability to HIV inf. . .
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