Reproductive health and human rights : the way forward / edited by Laura Reichenbach and Mindy Jane Roseman.

Date:
[2009]
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Description

This text critically reflects on the past 15 years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating poverty, diminishing gender inequality, and promoting human rights.

Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2009]

Physical description

viii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Global reproductive health and rights : reflecting on ICPD / Mindy Jane Roseman and Laura Reichenbach -- The global reproductive health and rights agenda : opportunities and challenges for the future / Laura Reichenbach -- The conundrum of population and reproductive health programs in the early twenty-first century / George Zeidenstein -- Population, poverty reduction, and the Cairo agenda / David E. Bloom and David Canning -- Mobilizing resources for reproductive health / Tom W. Merrick -- Measuring reproductive health : from contraceptive prevalence to human development indicators / Joan Kaufman -- Bearing human rights : maternal health and the promise of ICPD / Mindy Jane Roseman -- Advocacy strategies for young people's sexual and reproductive health : using UN processes / Bonnie Shepard -- Approaches to sexual and reproductive health and HIV policies and programs : synergies and disconnects / Sofia Gruskin -- Technology, reproductive health, and the Cairo consensus / Kelly Blanchard -- The Cairo "compromise" on abortion and its consequences for making abortion safe and legal / Marge Berer -- Advocacy for sexuality and women's rights : continuities, discontinuities, and strategies since ICPD / Françoise Girard -- Situating reproductive health within the academy / Alaka Basu -- The political limits of the United Nations in advancing reproductive health and rights / Heidi Larson and Michael R. Reich -- Examining religion and reproductive health : constructive engagement for the future / Frances Kissling -- Conclusion : conceptual successes and operational challenges to ICPD : global reproductive health and rights moving forward / Rebecca Firestone, Laura Reichenbach, and Mindy Jane Roseman.

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  • 9780812241525
  • 0812241525