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Info and resource: ARROW SRHR Info Resource - 17 Nov 2009

The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) SRHR Info Resource

A. Resources

Informed Consent and the Right to Health

The 10 August 2009, Anand Grover, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, produced this report about the right to health and informed consent. The report is an excellent piece to advocate governments and health services, to improve services with a Human rights approach. To view the report, please follow this link(it is the first report in the list): http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?m=100 Sexuality and Human Rights

The International Council on Human Rights Policy announced the publication of 'Sexuality and Human Rights', the first in a new series of discussion papers to be published by the International Council. The paper, written by leading academic Alice M. Miller, examines the content of s exual rights and the evolution of their discussion, and identifies a number of problematic issues for further discussion.

DAWN InformsDAWN Informs is published biannually by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) as a networking tool for its members. DAWN is an autonomous inter-regiona l organization of the South which acts as a network and catalyst advocating alternative development processes that emphasise the basic survival needs of the needs of the world's people, particularly women and children of the south countries.

B. News from the Resource Centre

We are pleased to inform you that ARROW has produced a DVD of all materials published by ARROW since 1994. The publications includes: our cutting-edge bulletin ARROWs For Change, Annual Reports, Information Packages and Research and Monitoring Reports.

This month's featured resources are:

Development and Empowerment of Women (DEW), Inc. & Reproductive Rights Resource Group Philippines (3RG-Phils). 2008.

Gender and rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive health within the Islamic context: A training manual. Philippines: Development and Empowerment of Women (DEW), Inc. & Reproductive Rights Resource Group Philippines (3RG-Phils).

128p.

This training module i s a result of an advocacy project for sexual and reproductive health and rights within the Islamic perspective at the community level that was implemented by 3RG in partnership with the local governments in Mindanao. The training manual has three main components namely; the sex and gender module, the sexual and reproductive health module and the rights-based approach to SRH module. Concurrently created for Muslim rights advocates and workers, the manual has been developed to inspire further work in strengthening the links between Islam teaching and principles of gender equality, equity and SRHR.

UNIFEM & Asian Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. 2009.

Diamonds: Stories of women from the Asia-Pacific Network of People Living with HIV. Bangkok: UNIFEM & Asian Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS. DVD with subtitles in English and Bahasa Indonesia. This documentary tells the stories of four women in the Asia-Pacific region who have overcome incredible life challenges to become strong advocates for the rights of all women living with HIV and AIDS. For more information and research support write to: ambika@arrow.org.my or dc@arrow.org.my

C. Events

IX ICM Regional Midwives' Conference

The IX ICM Regional Midwives' Conference to be held from 19-22 November, 2009, at Hotel Marriott, Hyderabad comes at a crucial period when countries in the Region have acknowledged the crisis due to acute shortages of midwifery and nursing personnel and are taking steps to train and increase the number of midwives all over the World and particularly in this Region there has been a shift in womenโ‚ฌย™s choice for place of delivery from the home to hospital. This requires the presence of qualifi ed and skilled professionals in adequate number in institutions.

The achievement of MDG 5 requires skilled attendance at birth. At this juncture, issues related to quality and duration of training, scope of function, and regulation to practice need to be discussed and clarified. The ICM theme for International Day of the Midwife, 2009 The World needs Midwives now more than everโ‚ฌย further highlights the need to focus on midwives and midwifery today.

For more information, please visit http://www.ixicmregap-midwivesconf.in/

D. Call to Action

Sign the Petition

Dear Colleagues, Friends and Supporters,

We are writing to request that you sign on to a very important petition to be forwarded to the CEDAW Committee. This petition calls for urgent action be t aken to address Executive Order No. 003: Declaring Total Commitment and Support to the Responsible Parenthood Movement in the City of Manila and Enunciating Policy Declarations in Pursuit Thereof (the EO), which has resulted in a ban on modern contraceptives from all Manila City public health facilities and a denial of information or referrals for family planning services. As nearly half of all Filipino women have an unmet need for contraception, the effects of the Manila City EO are far-reaching, particularly for poor women.

The petition brings the CEDAW Committee's attention to the human rights violations that are resulting from the continued implementation of the contraception ban and calls upon the Committee to take urgent action. Specifically, it requests that the Committee: 1) take immediate action to repeal the EO, and 2) provide full access to reproductive health information and services by adopting the proposed Reproductive Health bill and increasing government funding for reproductive health services in compliance with its obligation to respect, protect and fulfill human rights. Please review the attached petition (here) and then sign on to the urgent action request by forwarding us your: Organization's NameRepresentative's Name and TitleCountry

Please send your signature to cedawpetition@reprorights.org before 13 November.In Solidarity,The Center for Reproductive Rights (USA)IWRAW-Asia Pacific (Malaysia)EnGendeRights (Philippines) ARROW has signed this petition and we urge you all do the same. In solidarity.

E. Job Openings

Assistant Programme Officer (Publications & Marketing)

The Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) is committed to promoting and protecting women's health rights and needs, particularly in the area of women's sexual and reproductive health rights. We believe that good health and well-being, and access to comprehensive and affordable gender-sensitive health services are fundamental human rights. We are looking for an Assistant Programme Officer (Publications & Marketing). Please click here for more details. *please note that this position is open to Malaysian candidates only*.

F. ARROW UpdatesReclaiming & Redefining Rights

ICPD+15: Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in AsiaA comprehensive monitoring report of 15 years of ICPD implementation in 12 Asian countries. This report covers areas of women's empowerment, reproductive health, reproductive rights, sexual health and sexual rights. The e-copy will be available soon on our website possiblefraudstart ".." possiblefraudend www.arrow.org.my If you are keen to purchase a hard copy of this publication please write to Sai Jyothi (sai@arrow.org.my) or Ambika Varma (ambika@arrow.org.my). ARROWs for Change: Rural Women's SRHR: Knowing the Complexities for Strengthening Strategies - Chinese Translation (Vol 13 No 1)ARROW are pleased to announce the latest translation of ARROWs For Change: /ARROWs For Change/ Vol. 13 No. 1 (Rural Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Knowing the Complexities for Strengthening Strategies) - Chinese edition. This Mandarin edition has been produced in collaboration with the College of Management, Ningxia Medical University.

Please click here or this link to access the bulletin online: possiblefraudstart "images" possiblefraudend http://arrow.org.my/home/images/publications/AFC/v13n1_Chinese.pdf

This bulletin issue argues that strategies to address rural womenโ‚ฌย™s SRHR issues must consider various complexitiesโ‚ฌโ€of SRHR concepts, of the diversity of what is rural, and of womenโ‚ฌย™s lived realities. It offers articles by Kausar Khan (Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Pakistan); Beyond Beijing Committee (Nepal); TK Sundari Ravindran and P. Balasubramanian (RUWSEC, India); and Michelle Rogers.

This Mandarin edition also includes a new article on ARROW's Women's Health and Rights Advocacy Partnership Project in China, as well as new resources on rural women's SRHR relevant to China.

We hope our Chinese-speaking readers would find this resource useful! For feedback, as well as requests for copies, please write to the Managing Editor, Malyn Ando (malyn@arrow.org.my)

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