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Summary: Published by the International Women's Health Coalition (New York: 1997). Proceedings of a symposium on "Human Security," i.e., the nonmilitary issues that affect people's well-being: human rights, economic development, environmental protection, population, and health (53 pages).

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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).

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Summary: Edited by Gita Sen, Adrienne Germain, and Lincoln Chen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995). In 17 chapters, scholars, social activists, and policy makers explore future directions for population policies centered on health, women's empowerment, and human rights (280 pages).

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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).

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Summary: By Adrienne Germain and AnibalFaundes (Challenges in Reproductive Health Research: Biennial Report1992-1993, edited by J. Khanna, P.F.A. Van Look and P.D. Griffin,Geneva: World Health Organization, 1994). Invited chapter in report ofUNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Developmentand Research Training in Human Reproduction describing the need for andbenefits of including women as decision makers in the development anddelivery of reproductive health technology (7 pages).