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In this section, PeaceWomen classifies information by Theme- Health - and by Subthemes: General; HIV/AIDS; and Reproductive Health

It should be noted that the themes and sub-themes are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. Please remember that PeaceWomen posts information that is focused on women, peace and security.

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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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INTERNATIONAL: U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, INTERNATIONAL: U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, October 2012 | Download PDF
ISRAEL/PALESTINE: A Mapping of Cooperative Health Programs in Palestine and Israel, The Presidency, 2008 | Download PDF
FemLINKPACIFIC Women Peace and Human Security Update 2 of 2012, FemLINKPACIFIC, March 26, 2012 | Download PDF
RESOURCE: Q&A: How the U.S. "No Abortion" Prohibition on Humanitarian Aid Violates the Rights of Women Raped in Armed Conflict, Global Justice Center, August 12th Campaign
UNRWA: Including Men in Preconception Care & Family Planning, UNRWA, April, 2011 | Download PDF

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BURMA: YWCA of Myanmar Empowering Young Women, Training & Workshops, , 3 April 2013
BLOG: Did Israel Violate the Genocide Convention by Forcing Contraceptives on Ethiopian Women?, Online Dialogues & Blogs, , January 28, 2013
BLOG: The Safety of Haitian Girls and Women Should Be Our Goal, Online Dialogues & Blogs, , January 14th, 2013
INTERVIEW: A Positive Approach to Violence: an Interview with Indonesian HIV Advocate, Baby Rivona, Conferences & Meetings, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women ), 18th og July 2012
STATEMENT: Secretary-General Says Every Two Minutes a Woman Dies in Pregnancy, Childbirth, Statements, Human Rights Council, United Nations (UN), 21 June 2012

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Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS)
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
United Nations (UN)
Women in and Beyond the Global (WIBG)
WIBG, an open-access, peer-reviewed feminist journal publishes and supports work from around the globe that analyzes and works to change the status and conditions of women in global households, prisons, and cities.
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