Reproductive Health and Rights: Reaching the Hardly Reached
Author
Elaine Murphy (ed.)
Ann Hendrix-Jenkins (ed.)
Publication Date
June 1, 2002
Summary
This book from PATH brings together a public health and human rights focus on the reproductive health and rights of women and men who are the most disadvantaged and underserved: the "hardly reached." Each article intends to fill a gap in our understanding of the health needs of those least served by existing reproductive health programmes, including survivors of gender-based violence, refugees, sexual minorities, indigenous women, adolescents and young girls, and women who have been trafficked.
The articles include:
- Article 1: Trafficking in Persons
- Article 2: An Interview with Jo Doezema of the Network of Safe Sex Work Projects: Does Attention to Traficking Adversely Affect Sex Workers' Rights?
- Article 3: Reaching Out to Sex Workers
- Article 4: Growing Up Gay in the USA
- Article 5: Reaching Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
- Article 6: Women Under Oppressive Regimes: Women and Religious Fundamentalism
- Article 7: Abused and Violated Women in Africa: A Personal Story of Vulnerability to AIDS
- Article 8: Girls at Risk: Community Approaches to End Female Genital Mutilation and Treating Women Injured by the Practice
- Article 9: Confronting Violence Against Women: Scribbles from a Notepad in India
- Article 10: Victims of Gender-based Violence
- Article 11: Reaching the Youngest Adolescents with Reproductive Health Programs and Services
- Article 12: Women Who Die Needlessly: Maternal Mortality as a Human Rights Issue
- Article 13: Involving Men in Reproductive Health: Implications for Reproductive Health and Rights
- Article 14: Future Options Foreclosed: Girls Who Marry Early
- About the Authors
Publisher
Number of Pages
Contact
PATH
Seattle WA
98107
United States
Source
Placed on the Communication Initiative site June 17 2008
Last Updated June 18 2008
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