WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES FOR WOMEN'S GROUPS
From the website of the Centre for Global Women's Leadership
International Networking for Women’s Human Rights by Charlotte Bunch with Peggy Antrobus, Samantha Frost and Niamh Reilly
Women's Human Rights: An Introduction by Charlotte Bunch* and Samantha Frost
There are links on this website to a range of other reports, including AWID's 2006 Publication, Achieving Women's Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience :
click here to go to the publications page and then scroll down to view the titles.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Banúlacht’s Feminist Dialogues Series
Maternal Mortality as a Women's Human Rights Issue|Wednesday | April 28th | 7.00 p.m. | Temple Bar Hotel | Fleet St | Dublin 2 |
Speakers
Senator Fiona O’Malley, independent member of the Seanad
Ilham Siddig, medical doctor and activist
Meghan Doherty, Policy and Advocacy Officer, Irish Family Planning Association
According to Mary Robinson in an article entitled, Let's Stop Women's Suffering, The reason that women are still dying is because women's lives are not valued, because their voices are not listened to, and because they are discriminated against and excluded in their communities and by healthcare systems that fail to prioritize their needs.
The world’s governments meet to review progress on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2010: MDG5 is: “Improve Maternal Health”. How is the goal progressing? Progress in reducing maternal mortality and universalising access to sexual and reproductive health services and supplies is most off-track. Overall, improvements have been slow and almost absent in Sub-Saharan Africa where women face the greatest lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth.
See Quick Facts compiled by Action for Global health
Banúlacht believes that it is critical that as governments focus on MDG5, they are informed by a holistic understanding of women's human rights.
About the speakers
• Fiona O’Malley was first elected to Dail Eireann in 2002 and was appointed to Seanad Éireann by the Taoiseach in 2007. Senator O’Malley is the current Chairperson of the Irish All Party Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, Population & Development.
• Ilham Siddig graduated from the faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Khartoum, Sudan and holds a masters degree in Public Health from the George Washington University, USA. Her work has focused on health and development projects aiming to increase community level access to quality reproductive health and family planning services and contraceptive methods. She has worked in Yemen, Sudan, Nepal and Egypt on projects that promote family planning, clean and safe labor, postpartum family planning and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
• Meghan Doherty is the Policy and Advocacy Officer of the Irish Family Planning Association
She recently participated in the Beijing+15 Review, where she focused on the topic of maternal mortality.
Maternal Mortality as a Women's Human Rights Issue|Wednesday | April 28th | 7.00 p.m. | Temple Bar Hotel | Fleet St | Dublin 2 |
Speakers
Senator Fiona O’Malley, independent member of the Seanad
Ilham Siddig, medical doctor and activist
Meghan Doherty, Policy and Advocacy Officer, Irish Family Planning Association
According to Mary Robinson in an article entitled, Let's Stop Women's Suffering, The reason that women are still dying is because women's lives are not valued, because their voices are not listened to, and because they are discriminated against and excluded in their communities and by healthcare systems that fail to prioritize their needs.
The world’s governments meet to review progress on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2010: MDG5 is: “Improve Maternal Health”. How is the goal progressing? Progress in reducing maternal mortality and universalising access to sexual and reproductive health services and supplies is most off-track. Overall, improvements have been slow and almost absent in Sub-Saharan Africa where women face the greatest lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy and childbirth.
See Quick Facts compiled by Action for Global health
Banúlacht believes that it is critical that as governments focus on MDG5, they are informed by a holistic understanding of women's human rights.
About the speakers
• Fiona O’Malley was first elected to Dail Eireann in 2002 and was appointed to Seanad Éireann by the Taoiseach in 2007. Senator O’Malley is the current Chairperson of the Irish All Party Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, Population & Development.
• Ilham Siddig graduated from the faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Khartoum, Sudan and holds a masters degree in Public Health from the George Washington University, USA. Her work has focused on health and development projects aiming to increase community level access to quality reproductive health and family planning services and contraceptive methods. She has worked in Yemen, Sudan, Nepal and Egypt on projects that promote family planning, clean and safe labor, postpartum family planning and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
• Meghan Doherty is the Policy and Advocacy Officer of the Irish Family Planning Association
She recently participated in the Beijing+15 Review, where she focused on the topic of maternal mortality.
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