Canadians for Choice: Latest News
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• Newsletter Voices for Choice
• Norman Barwin Scholarship for reproductive health
  The $2,500 award is for a full-time graduate student registered at a
  Canadian University during the 2007-2008 academic year.
  Applications must be received by October 29th, 2007.
  The successful candidate will be notified by November 12th, 2007.

• Pro-Choice Canada Contest  - Join us in celebrating 20 years of safe and legal reproductive choice in Canada!
  Tell us why a “Pro-Choice Canada” is so important and you could win a trip to Ottawa and the chance to be on national television!
  More expressive through art than through word? Submit your pro-choice work of art and you could have your artwork featured on the cover of a book!
  Contest closing date:  December 10, 2007.

Centre for Reproductive Rights
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• World's Abortion Laws Poster 2007
  This full-color, 25 x 22 inch world map features up- to-date information about the legal status of abortion in over 190 countries
• Poland Appeals Tysiac
• Center for Reproductive Rights Applauds Landmark Abortion Decision by European Court of Human Rights

Nicaragua: Blanket Ban on Abortion Harms Women (Human Rights Watch)
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Women Afraid to Seek Life-Saving Treatment

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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UN Page: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/decla ration.html
UN Declaration: http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/606225.4.html

The European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case of Tysiac v. Poland
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The Polish Federation for Woman and Family Planning
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ALICJA TYSIAC FINALLY WON at the EUROPEAN COURT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Lancet's Health and Human Rights Series
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The Lancet’s important series on health and human rights, which starts today, illustrates some of the ways in which the delivery of medical services must answer to human rights principles.

Labour and Migration Update - June 2007
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Policy and Research News - June 2007 by Salimah Valiani Social and Economic Policy Department Canadian Labour Congress

Rights and Realities: Monitoring Reports on the Status of Indonesian Women's Sexual and Reporductive Health and Rights
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This publication in a compilation of six studies conducted by NGO focal point groups in Indonesia on the progress of laws, policies and programme in Indonesia as a part of the country's commitment to the ICPD. The publication specifically addresses such topics as maternal mortality, abortion, violence against women and girls, adolescent SRHR, women and HIV/AIDS, and the emerging impact of decentralisation on health systems.

A Guide for Non-Governmental Organisations on the Implementation of the UN Migrant Workers' Convention
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Following the entering into force of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrants Workers and Members of Their Families in 2003, members of civil society have decided to create the International NGO Platform on the Migrant Workers?Convention (IPMWC)- which includes FIDH as a member - to facilitate the promotion, the implementation and the monitoring of the convention. IPMWC has published a guide for an effective use of UN human rights mecanisms by local and regional NGOs working for a better protection of the rights of migrant workers and their families.

Translating CEDAW into Law: CEDAW Legislative Compliance in Nine Pacific Island Countries
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While some attention has been given to developing general CEDAW compliance indicators, “Translating CEDAW into Law: CEDAW Legislative Compliance in Nine Pacific Island Countries” is a unique, comprehensive publication and represents the first such global initiative to provide detailed, concrete and specific indicators of what is required in order for legislative compliance with CEDAW. While this groundbreaking publication was developed for and in the Pacific, the indicators developed can be used in every region of the world.

World Population Day 2007 - Men at Work: Support Pregnant wife, Care for Baby, Educate Daughters, Share Parenting
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Men's involvement and participation can make all the difference in women's lives.

Resources for HIV/AIDS and SRH Integration
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The Center for Communication Programs of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has launched a new website on resources for the integration of HIV/AIDS & Sexual and Reproductive Health. The comprehensive site is designed to identify a full range of resources upon which to develop policies, guidelines, or practices related to the integration of SRH and HIV/AIDS. Users can access the latest research and evidence-based approaches to integrating prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS with SRH services, as well as materials documenting field program experiences, practical tools for integrated service delivery, news, and conference materials.

Female Circumcision/Female Genital Multilation (FC/FGM): Global Laws and Policies Towards Elimination
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the collective name given to a number of cultural practices that involve the partial or total cutting of female genitals. FGM violates a number of human rights of women and girls.

GAINING GROUND –A Tool for Advancing Reproductive Rights Law Reform
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Gaining Ground is a resource for advocates promoting law reform at the national level. Each chapter, devoted to a key reproductive rights issue, provides positive examples of recently adopted laws and policies from around the world. Gaining Ground is aimed at helping advocates generate ideas for reform and assess what can be realistically achieved in their own countries. The publication covers nine topics in reproductive rights law: Safe pregnancy and childbirth; contraception; abortion; female genital mutilation; HIV/AIDS; marriage rights; violence against women; population policies; and adolescents.

Giving Up Harmful Practices. Not Culture
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Consensus of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) - under threat - From Marie Stopes International)
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Bringing Rights to Bear
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An Analysis of the Work of U.N. Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive and Sexual Rights

Global Agreements on Human Rights, Development, Reproductive Health and Gender Equality
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Reproductive Rights are Human Rights
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Excellent summary of the treaties and convention that form the basis for the international legal foundations of women's reproductive rights.

Religious Voices Worldwide Support Choice: Pro-choice Perspectives in a Sampling of World Religions
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Closing Statement for Women Deliver (Conference October 2007)
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Vienna Declaration
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