| Documents |
| "WE WANT TO LIVE AS HUMANS:" Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan |
From Human Rights Watch.
Afghan women and girls have suffered mounting abuses, harassment and restrictions of their fundamental human rights during 2002.
The 52-page report focuses on the increasingly harsh restrictions on women and girls imposed by Ismail Khan, a local governor in the west of Afghanistan who has received military and financial assistance from the United States. |
| Attitudes of Catholics on Reproductive Rights, Church-State, and Related Issues: Three National Surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico |
March 9, 2004: First comprehensive polling of Catholics in Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico were released today showing that Catholics in these countries see a humanitarian and spiritual role for their church but support many changes to liberalize it, including sanctioning contraception and some abortion rights, and largely oppose the church taking a heavy role in politics. |
| Catholics for a Free Choice Letter to the White House Chief of Staff |
Letter urging White House Chief of Staff, Andrew Card to approve U.S. funding for UNFPA. |
| Countdown 2015: Safe Abortion |
When properly performed by qualified medical personnel, abortion is one of the safest of all medical procedures – safer than pregnancy, childbirth, or even an injection of penicillin. Yet every year nearly 70,000 women die from complications of unsafe abortion – one every eight minutes. Thousands more suffer long-term injury. This tragedy occurs because an estimated one-third of all pregnancies are unwanted, but safe abortion services are not universally permitted or accessible to women. |
| ICPD at 10: From Family Planning To Sexual and Reproductive Health Care |
The past 50 years have seen incredible change in the sexual and reproductive health field. In 1954, contraceptives were illegal in most countries. Now more than half of all married women use them worldwide. Population “control” came into vogue, and before the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), many international family planning programs emphasized that mentality: numerical targets, social pressure and birth quotas. |
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| Experts & Sources |
| Bob Edgar |
National Council of Churches |
| David Andrews |
Population Communications International (PCI) |
| Frances Kissling |
Catholics for a Free Choice |
| Michelle Ringuette |
Catholics for a Free Choice |
| Zieba Shorish-Shamley |
Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan (WAPHA) |
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