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Reproductive Health is a sub-theme of the PeaceWomen Theme: Health, and forms part of PeaceWomen’s framework to organize our women, peace and security resources for ease of reference and understanding. It is important to note that themes and sub-themes are interlinked and mutually reinforcing.

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  • February 12, 2013 (The Atlantic)
    INDIA: The Everyday Violence Against Pregnant Women in India The operating room was chilly on a grey morning in Bihar, Northern India. Tile floors did nothing to insulate from the thick, damp cold seeping through the blankets on rickety hospital beds.
  • February 7, 2013 (Huffington Post)
    INDIA: After Mass Sterilization In India, 100 Women Apparently Left In Field To Recuperate More than 100 women in India were apparently left out in a field after a mass sterilization at a hospital in the Malda district of West Bengal, according to multiple reports.
  • January 27, 2013 (The Independent)
    ISRAEL: Gave Birth Control to Ethiopian Jews Without their Consent Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.
  • November 16, 2012 (Council of Foreign Relations)
    INTERNATIONAL: Family Planning Is a Right, Not a Privilege Given the news dominating the headlines this week (CIA sex scandals and an increasingly Orwellian surveillance apparatus), it is unsurprising that a report published by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), The State of the World Population 2012, received little attention. And yet, underpinning the report is a paradigm shift in how the world body conceptualizes and articulates family planning: not as a privilege, but as a fundamental human right.
  • October 23, 2012 (Feminist News)
    UNITED STATES: Reproductive Rights Groups Launch Educate Congress Initiative Reproductive rights groups are partnering up for the 'Educate Congress' initiative, which will send a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves to every congressional office. The action is designed to educate congressional representatives on how women's bodies work.

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