From Chapter II of the report, presented at the 10th session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean in August 2007. " The purpose of this section is to analyse women’s contribution to the economy and to social protection, with particular reference to unpaid work. The replacement of the idea of “social security” with that of “social protection” in development parlance has meant a quite significant conceptual shift, since “social security” referred to more...

The Winter 2008 issue focuses on abortion rights as human rights. It includes articles about human rights in Latin America, reproductive justice, and using a human-rights framework to teach health providers, as well as interviews with Monica Roa, an attorney who worked to overturn Colombia's restrictive ban on abortion, and Marianne Mollmann, advocacy director for the Women's Rights division of Human Rights Watch.

This booklet is the first in a series of publications on good practice in responding to the impact of HIV and AIDS on education. Aimed primarily at government, donor and NGO policymakers, planners and managers, the series presents ideas, research results, and policy and programmatic examples from both formal and non-formal learning environments.

Booklet 1 provides an overview of why HIV and AIDS are important issues for the education sector, identifies weaknesses in current policy and program more...

"Poverty reduction strategies form the basis of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) assistance in the poorest developing countries. The detailed guidelines, or poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs), are prepared in the host country and influence the investments made in most sectors of development. While population programs have promoted family planning for decades as part of development efforts, family planning has received less attention and dedicated funding since the advent o more...

Strengthening the National HIV/AIDS/STD/TB Council (NAC) and supporting strategic HIV prevention, care and mitigation activities within the National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Framework, Zambia (STARZ): A synthesis of institutional arrangements of National Aids Commissions in seven African countries; 2007 (Authors: C. Dickinson; J. Mundy; J. Whitelaw Jones).

This paper from HLSP presents a synthesis of institutional arrangements and issues currently facing National AIDS Commissions (NACs) in 2007. The p more...

Full title: Options and Challenges for Converging HIV and SRH Services in India: Findings from an Assessment in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh. "The report shares findings from an assessment of how access to critical services for populations at risk of HIV and unintended pregnancy can be strengthened by converging HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services under the National Rural Health Mission and the National AIDS Control Programme in India. The report provi more...

"This report describes a simple methodology to screen and approve facilities as provider-training sites for comprehensive abortion care. This approach will help state governments in India adopt an evidence-based approach to identify potential training sites, and should be useful for other countries as well." (Ipas, 2007)

"Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision establishing a woman's right to abortion, remains under constant attack. In the 2004 version of this report, the Center for Reproductive Rights outlined the legal framework anti-choice forces were constructing to overturn abortion rights. Since that time, the anti-choice movement has added important new strategies. Now we can see more clearly how Roe would be toppled, and what anti-choice forces are doing to ensure that, if it is, abortion rights will be more...

From Council of Europe website-
[22/11/2007 11:30:00] In his welcome address for the Conference of European Health Ministers in Bratislava, Secretary General, Terry Davis said that proper healthcare for people on the move is an ethical, but also a social and economic imperative. "The co-ordinated and scientifically endorsed measures in these areas will be important in promoting the well-being of everyone and facilitating the integration of migrants within communities," added Ivan Valentovic, Mi more...

This book is a contribution to current efforts to re-energize and re-politicize the gender equality agenda in international development. It brings together leading scholars in the gender and development field, who were asked to interrogate the concept of 'gender justice' from conceptual, contextual and strategic angles. The result is a stimulating multidisciplinary collection that brings feminist analysis to bear on current debates on development and citizenship.

As an organization devoted to more...