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Summary: By Françoise Girard (Journal of Women's Health and Law, Vol. I, No. 1, November, 1999, Toronto and Vancouver: Butterworths). Analyzes the significance for women's health of the UN's five-year review of implementation of the Programme of Action agreed in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The author outlines and discusses the significance and impact of the original ICPD agreements and of the new commitments made by governments in 1999 to hasten implementation of the Programme of Action (14 pages).

HERA Action Sheets

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Summary: Edited by Sondra Zeidenstein and Kirsten Moore (New York: Population Council and International Women's Health Coalition, 1996). Twenty-four essays by social and biomedical scientists, family planning and reproductive health providers, and activists from over a dozen countries on sexuality and gender as addressed by family planning and reproductive health programs. (A limited supply of free copies is available from IWHC. Larger quantities may be purchased from the Population Council.) (404 pages).

FWCW Factsheets on Women's Health and Rights

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Summary: Set of 3 factsheets on reproductive health and rights, sexual health, and sexual rights, prepared for the Fourth World Conference on Women, 9 pages total.

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Summary: By Alexandrina B. Marcelo andAdrienne Germain (Contraceptive Research and Development 1984 to 1994:The Road From Mexico City to Cairo and Beyond, edited by P.F.A. VanLook and G. Perez-Palacios, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994).Invited paper prepared for the Second Inter-Agency Consultation on"Meeting the Challenges of the 1990s in Human Reproduction Research"(17 pages).

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Summary: Published by the International Women's Health Coalition and Cidadania, Estudos, Pesquisa, Informacao, Acao (CEPIA, Brazil), 1994. Report of a conference of 215 women from 79 countries held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1994, including consensus statement and strategies for the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (39 pages).