>>Available in Word and PDF / Available in Portuguese and Spanish

Summary: September 2003 web feature summarizing IWHC's colleagues in Latin America's diverse efforts to expand access to safe abortion in Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, and raise awareness around the public health crisis of unsafe abortion across Latin America and the Caribbean (6 pages).

>>Available in PDF or from WWHR

Summary: Report prepared by Liz Ercevik Amado on a workshop co-organized by the Istanbul-based Women for Women's Human Rights-New Ways and the Mediterranean Academy for Diplomatic Studies. The meeting convened 22 NGO representatives, advocates, and academics from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Pakistan, and the U.S. to explore the themes of sexuality, gender, and sexual and bodily rights violations, and to discuss regional strategies for overcoming these human rights violations in national and international contexts from a legal, social and political perspective (21 pages).

>>Available in PDF from the WHO website.

>>Available in French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian

>>To order a copy of the guidance in Polish, please contact the Federation for Women and Family Planning (Poland) at federacja@federa.org.pl.

>>Available from WHO

Summary: In 2002, IWHC made pivotal contributions to an international technical consultation on sexual health organized by the World Health Organization (WHO). Among other outcomes, the consultation produced affirmative definitions of sex, sexuality, sexual health, and sexual rights, available on WHO’s website at the link above. These definitions will serve as a basis for designing future policies and programs, and are an important step toward a broader, more comprehensive understanding of sexual health and rights.