Siyanda Update: Realising Rights to Safe and Legal Abortion, Issue No. 59, October 2007
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I. Advert: Overview Report Writers required for forthcoming BRIDGE Cutting Edge Packs on Gender and Care, and on Gender and Governance
II. Quick Guide: Realising Rights to Safe and Legal Abortion
III. Country Focus: Pacific Islands
IV. Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts with research experience in the Pacific.
V. Other New Resources: the final report of the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network; and UNRISD on the political and social economy of care
VI. Contribute section: share news, resources, opportunities and perspectives
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I. Advert: Overview Report Writers required for forthcoming BRIDGE Cutting Edge Packs on Gender and Care, and on Gender and Governance
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BRIDGE is currently recruiting two Overview Report Writers for forthcoming Cutting Edge Packs - one on Gender and Care, and the other on Gender and Governance. The application deadline is: 19th October 2007
Each Overview Report will comprise a maximum of 10,000 words, including bibliography and references. It will be completed in the next few months over a total of 25 consultancy days.
Applicants should:
- Have operational experience
- Have a clear, accessible writing style
- Have a specialisation in Gender and Care, or Gender and Governance
- Have a good understanding of the latest debates in research, policy and practice in the theme area
- Be Southern-focused, either working on or in the global South.
More information is available on both, including how to apply. For the Gender and Care pack, see:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120040105020249&FullMsg=220070927035051#220070927035051
For the Gender and Governance pack, see:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120040105020249&FullMsg=220070927033720#220070927033720
II. Quick Guide: Realising Rights to Safe and Legal Abortion
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Globally, about eight women die each hour as a result of unsafe abortions. How can we ensure that the right of all women to safe and legal abortion is realised? The following resources are a selection from over 25 resources added to the Siyanda database on abortion rights.
- Unsafe Abortion, id21, August 2007
What is the cost of unsafe abortion? This issue of id21 'health focus' tackles this question.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/id21_abortion.htm?em=0710&tag=QG
- Decide - Youth Coalition for Sexual Citizenship (in Spanish), Decidir, Coalición de Jovenes por la Ciudadania Sexual, January 2007
This website provides young people with information on sexual and reproductive health and rights and has a special section on abortion rights.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/decidir_youth_coalition.htm?em=0710&tag=QG
- International Data for Evaluation of Abortion Services, Ipas, January 2007
Information about abortion can be hard to access and difficult to compare. This online database provides a single central point for obtaining reliable and standardised data from over 20 countries divided into five categories, and supported by a glossary and other tools.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ideas.htm?em=0710&tag=QG
- It is our Decision. Abortion: a Right to Save Women's Lives. (in Spanish), Ipas Centroamérica, June 2006
This training manual aims to support awareness raising, information dissemination and capacity building on abortion issues. It combines a medical approach with human rights and theological perspectives.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/blandon_save_lives.htm?em=0710&tag=QG
- Literature on Unsafe Abortion in Africa (in English and French), Centre Population et Developpement (CEPED), March 2006
This publication contains an interactive and searchable bibliographical database of resources on induced abortion in Africa.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Guillaume_unsafe_abortion.htm?em=0710&tag=QG
- Death and Denial: Unsafe Abortion and Poverty, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), January 2006
This report highlights the key issues related to abortion in countries where it is restricted or illegal.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/IPPF_abortion_poverty.htm?em=0710&tag=QG
- Unintended Pregnancy and Induced Abortion in Uganda: Causes and Consequences, Guttmacher Institute, January 2006
This report urges policymakers and health planners to consider and debate strategies to address the high levels of unsafe abortion and low levels of contraceptive use in Uganda.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Singh_unintended_pregnancy.htm?em=0710&tag=QG
You can find additional resources related to realising rights to safe and legal abortion in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=abortion07&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0710&tag=QG
Gender and Ageing will be the next Quick Guide theme, in November 2007. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0710&tag=CS
Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm?em=0710&tag=QG
III. Country Focus: Pacific Islands
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- 3rd Pacific Ministers Meeting on Women, June 2007 & Final Decisions of The 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women, May 2007 (in English and French), Secretariat of the Pacific Community, June 2007
Participants at this meeting discussed eight main agenda items, ranging from mainstreaming gender into national policy; to advancing the process of gender-responsive budgeting in the Pacific; and building a regional women's movement.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/spc_third_pacific_meeting.htm?em=0710&tag=CF
- Translating CEDAW into Law. CEDAW Legislative Compliance in Nine Pacific Island Countries, UNDP Pacific Centre and UNIFEM Pacific Regional Office, May 2007
This report assesses to what extent the national laws of nine Pacific countries comply with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Jivan_translating_cedaw.htm?em=0710&tag=CF
- Gender in the Pacific Island States: Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography, Gender Equality Thematic Group, AusAid, January 2007
Drawing on 124 diverse resources, this literature review and annotated bibliography provides insights into the culture, geography and history of the Pacific Region and considers how they shape gender relations, roles and norms.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Keating_pacific.htm?em=0710&tag=CF
- Gender Country Profiles, JICA, October 2005
51 gender country profiles commissioned by the Japanese government, including from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Vanuatu.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/jica_gender_profiles.htm?em=0710&tag=CF
- Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA) Social Impact Monitoring Framework, Shore Consultants, June 2005
This training package provides Pacific Island countries with a framework and guiding methodology for monitoring the social/gender impacts of trade agreements.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Shore_picta.htm?em=0710&tag=CF
You can find additional resources in Siyanda about Pacific Islands at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=pacific07&em=0710&tag=CF
and network with experts and practitioners who are working in the region:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?RegOfExp=south_pacific&em=0710&tag=CF
Afghanistan will be the next Country Focus, in November 2007. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0710&tag=CS
Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm?em=0710&tag=CF
IV. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts on the Pacific context.
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The Experts' and Consultants' Database contains names, contact details and areas of expertise of people working on gender specific issues worldwide, and includes some of their publications. The following resources have been selected from experts who have expertise in the Pacific region:
- Women's Rights to Land Video, 2006, Guttenbeil-Likiliki, L.
- I Stret Nomo: Girls in Vanuatu Can Do Anything, 2003, Randell, S.
- The Grameen Micro-credit System and the Prospects of Mobile Cellular Phone in Fiji; Papua New Guinea; Samoa and Tonga, 2003, Absar, S.
- Prevailing Challenges for Pacific Youth, 2001, Vainerere, T.
- The UN Transitional Administration in East Timor: Gender Affairs, 2000, Whittington, S.
For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the author's last name into either the Name or Search Words field on the Experts' and Consultants' search page:
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The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with over 1250 profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with like-minded colleagues, persons working on similar themes, or in the same geographical location. It is also an excellent resource for those seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies.
V. Other New Resources in Siyanda:
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- Unequal, Unfair, Ineffective and Inefficient. Gender Inequity in Health: Why it Exists and How we Can Change It. Final Report to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Sen, G., Ostlin, P and George, A, September 2007
- The Political and Social Economy of Care in a Development Context: Conceptual Issues, Research Questions and Policy Options, Razavi, S., June 2007
VI. Contribute section
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Share your news, resources, opportunities and perspectives in the following ways:
Post your announcements, information requests, training and funding opportunities:
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Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest other resources:
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Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&em=0710&tag=CS
(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members. This update was edited by Adrian Bannister)
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