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Women's rights activists are yet again set to jointly call for the end of violence against women (VAW) during this year's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence from November 25 to December 10. This year's campaign will focus on strategies and actions necessary in overcoming challenges and obstacles that hinder activists to further their work to end VAW.
Read more: WOMEN STRATEGISE FOR 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER VIOLENCE
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The recently concluded Global Safe Abortion Conference served as a venue in addressing issues surrounding abortion worldwide—focusing on rights, access, advocacy, and funding. A Global Call to Action for Women’s Access to Safe Abortion was then signed by the participants and is now available online to solicit more support.
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When the Burmese monks led a nationwide protests against the military junta in September 2007, they did not only called for better living conditions and national reconciliation but also for the release of Nobel Peace laureate and Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for over 11 years and not seen in public for over four years. Isis International-Manila recalls its interview with Aung San Suu Kyi which appeared in Women in Action (WIA) magazine's third issue in 1999 in which she talked about women's human rights.
Read more: AUNG SAN SUU KYI: STATEMENT FOR THE WORLD MARCH OF WOMEN
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On September 10, 2007, activist and entrepreneur Anita Roddick died of brain hemorrhage in Chichester, England. Founder of the Body Shop, Roddick worked on behalf of numerous causes—the environment, debt relief for developing countries, indigenous farmers in impoverished nations, voting rights, anti-sexism, among others. In her memory, below is an interview of Isis International-Manila with Roddick which appeared in the second issue of Women in Action (WIA) magazine in 1996.
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For the first time in history, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will focus on improving gender financing as the theme of its 52nd session at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from February 25 to March 7, 2008.
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A new report yet again highlighted that reducing the incidence of unsafe abortion would result in reduced maternal mortality and improved maternal health. And that the best way to make abortion less necessary is to help women avoid unwanted pregnancies by giving them access to contraceptives.
Read more: INCREASED ACCESS TO CONTRACEPTIVES WILL REDUCE MATERNAL MORTALITY RISK, REPORT SAYS
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