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Title

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

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Reichenbach, Laura.
• Roseman, Mindy Jane.

Description

viii, 292 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Uniform Title

• Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
• Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Human rights
• ICPD Programme of Action
• International Conference on Population and Development (1994 : Cairo, Egypt)
• International Conference on Population and Development
• International Cooperation
• International cooperation
• Reproductive Medicine
• Reproductive Rights
• Reproductive health
• Right to health
• Women's Health

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780812241525 (alk. paper)
• 0812241525 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008035360

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library