1998 Women of Our World
Population Reference Bureau
Focus: Global
This wallchart provides the latest data available for more than 150 countries on the quality of women's lives -- their health, education, work, and participation in politics. Also included are selected data for men. Additional text discusses wage inequalities, family planning, maternal mortality, AIDS, domestic violence, and disadvantages faced by adolescent women, elderly women, and women who head households.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, developing-country audiences, and USAID cooperating agencies; $3.50 for all others. English, French, and Spanish; 1998; 1-page wallchart. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
American Women, Are You Better Off Than You Were a Year Ago? A Report Card of the United States -- Achievement of Its Commitments to the Fourth World Conference on Women
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
Focus: United States
Written a year after the Fourth World Conference on Women, this paper takes a critical look at the U.S. government's successes and failures in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action. It was presented as a plenary presentation in the session "Moving into the 21st Century: Follow-Up on the Beijing and Cairo Conferences" at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting held in New York in November 1996.
Free to developing-country audiences; $8.50 for all others. English; November 1996; 12 pages.
Censorship and Manipulation of Family Planning Information: An Issue of Human Rights and Women's Health
Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University
Focus: Global
This article serves as the introduction to a human rights report that explores the ways in which people become the instruments of state policies that deprive them of the knowledge and information necessary to make and implement decisions about their reproduction and to express their sexuality safely.
Free of charge. English; 1995; 37 pages.
Challenges in Implementing the Cairo Programme of Action (working title)
Women's Environment and Development Organization
Focus: Global
Report evaluating progress made by approximately 50 governments since 1994 to advance the Cairo Programme of Action. Focuses on three areas: developmental impact of economic policies on women's health; impact of environmental threats and degradation on women's health; and best practices and major obstacles.
Free to developing-country NGOs; $15 for all others. English, French, and Spanish; February 1999; number of pages to be determined. (Also addresses: Mobilizing Public and Private Resources; The Role of the Private Sector)
Commitments to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All: A Framework for Action
Family Care International
Focus: Global
This document was designed as a companion to Action for the 21st Century. It distills agreements concerning sexual and reproductive health issues made at several major international conferences and conventions, and outlines specific actions necessary to improve sexual and reproductive health and to protect people's rights in each area.
Cost is $1 for developing-country audiences; $2 for audiences in Europe, North America, and representatives of international organizations. English, Spanish, and French; 1995; 65 pages.
A Community Case Study of the Effects of a Radio Soap Opera on Gender Equality, Family Size, and Individual/Collective Efficacy in India
Population Communications International and Ohio University
Focus: India
The case study investigates the effects of a highly popular entertainment-education soap opera, "Tinka Tinka Sukh" (Happiness Lies in Small Things), designed to promote gender equality, family planning, and individual/collective efficacy, on a village community in India. The case study involved data-gathering in unstructured personal interviews, focus group interviews, participant observation, and examination of archival records. It allowed the authors to understand the context of the radio program's reception, including the role of key opinion leaders in engendering strong audience effects.
Price to be determined. English; 1999; 12 pages.
Community Health Training Empowers Women: A Case Study of The Promotoras Comunitarias Program of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
Pacific Institute for Women's Health
Focus: United States
Presents findings from focus groups conducted with promotoras participating in a community-based health promotion training project.
Free to developing-country audiences; $8.50 for all others. English; February 1998; 24 pages.
Dialogue: Expanding the Response to HIV/AIDS, A Resource Guide
Family Health International
Focus: Global
An all-inclusive communications strategy for HIV/AIDS prevention that grows out of research on people's own lives and experiences. Introduces the concept of "dialogue prevention" for target groups and provides implementation models, facilitator guidelines, training activities, and evaluation information. Addresses gender and cultural context. Applicable for grassroots, national or international organizations.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, developing-country audiences, and USAID cooperating agencies. English; 1997; 50 pages.
Eco-Justice: Linking Human Rights and the Environment
Worldwatch Institute
Focus: Global
The human costs of environmental degradation have never been greater. Yet, as communities organize to defend themselves and their local environment, they often find that their most basic legal rights are in jeopardy as well.
Cost is $5. English; December 1995; 68 pages. (Also addresses: Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development)
Efforts by Child Welfare Agencies to Address Domestic Violence: The Experiences of Five Communities
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Focus: United States
This report focuses on recent efforts by child welfare agencies to take account of battering experienced by mothers in cases of child abuse and neglect. These efforts are in their infancy.
Free of charge; available online at: http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/cyp/dv/intro.htm. English; 1997.
Families in Focus: New Perspectives on Mothers, Fathers, and Children
Population Council
Focus: Global
Presents data to demonstrate that the concept of the traditional family structure underpinning most development efforts is more myth than reality.
Free to qualified individuals and institutions in developing countries; $12.50 for all others. English; 1995; 115 pages.
Fertility Effects of Medicaid Funding of Abortion: A Disaggregated Analysis
Population Matters Program, RAND
Focus: United States
While standard price theoretic arguments imply that lowering the "cost" of abortion should lower fertility, recent theoretical and empirical work suggests the opposite. Using disaggregated birth certificate data, this paper explores the effect of Medicaid funding of abortions on fertility.
English; 1996; 39 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
A Global Vasectomy Decision-Making Study: A Six-Part Series
AVSC
Focus: Bangladesh, Mexico, Kenya, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, United States
A series of publications reporting on the social and cultural factors affecting men's vasectomy decisionmaking processes in six countries.
Single copies are free of charge; multiple copies free to developing-country audiences. English; 1993-1996. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Human Rights and the Politics of Risk and Blame: Lessons from the International Reproductive Health Movement
Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University
Focus: Global
This article uses the example of reproductive health and rights to argue that new understandings of the connection between socioeconomic conditions and poor health will generate change only when they are reframed into political claims and pressed by social movements.
Free of charge. English; 1997; 4 pages.
"Humraahi": An Entertainment-Education Television Soap Opera to Promote Gender Equality in Marriage, Education, Socialization, and Family Life in India
Population Communications International
Focus: India
The results of a panel study of 4,000 people and in-depth interviews from 56 villages in North India support the hypothesis that entertainment-education television soap operas can influence long-held attitudes about marriage and gender roles. These changes in audience members are stimulated by identification and parasocial interaction with the characters, recognition of the consequences of the characters' behaviors, and interpersonal peer communication.
Price to be determined. English; 1998; 21 pages.
How Family Planning Protects the Health of Women and Children
Population Action International
Focus: Global
Advocacy/Grassroots material.
Free of charge. English; 1998; 2 pages.
The Impact of Legal Reform on Access to Safe Abortion Services
Ipas
Focus: Global
This monograph reviews the factors that influence whether liberalizing abortion laws results in increased accessibility, acceptability, and availability of safe abortion services. Based on a review of relevant literature, observation, and interviews in a number of countries that have liberalized their abortion laws since 1985, the monograph identifies trends in global abortion laws, and factors that influence local change and highlights areas that need additional research or programmatic attention.
Free to delegates. English; 1999; 30 pages.
Involving Men in Family Planning: The Zimbabwe Male Motivation and Family Planning Method Expansion Project
Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs
Focus: Zimbabwe
An evaluation of the Zimbabwe Male Motivation and Family Planning Method Expansion Project.
Free to developing-country audiences; $5 for all others. English; January 1996; 57 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Mapping Progress: Assessing Government Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action
Women's Environment and Development Organization
Focus: Global
Global survey of successes and challenges in advancing commitments made at the Beijing women's conference, containing responses from governments and NGOs in 90 countries that adopted the Beijing Platform for Action.
Cost is $10. English; 1998; 214 pages.
Men and Reproductive Health, Network
Family Health International
Focus: Global
Encouraging male responsibility for family planning requires services that protect the reproductive health of both men and women. Research-based articles discuss male responsibility for reproductive health, men's reproductive health risks, surveys from developing countries that suggest a strong interest in family planning among men, and existing and experimental male contraceptives.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, developing-country audiences, and USAID cooperating agencies; $5 for all others. English, French, and Spanish; 1998; 32 pages. (Also addresses: Adolescents; Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Men as Partners (MAP) Case Studies
AVSC
Focus: Global
Series of four country case studies -- United States, Colombia, Pakistan, Uganda -- conducted in preparation for AVSC's Men As Partners (MAP) initiative; male involvement strategies used by different NGOs are examined.
Single copies are free of charge; multiple copies free to developing-country audiences. English; 1997. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women's Perspectives Across Countries and Cultures
International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group
Focus: Global
Based on in-depth group and individual interviews in seven countries, this book presents research findings, cross-cultural analyses, and policy recommendations about the conditions and values that affect women's sense of entitlement to make decisions regarding contraception, abortion, childbearing and sexual relations.
Cost is £14.95/$25 (paperback); £45/$69.95 (hardcover); discounted rate for delegates and NGO participants; free to Asian and African NGOs. English; 1998; 358 pages.
Prevention and Management of Unsafe Abortion: A Guide for Action
Family Care International
Focus: Global
This guide for program planners aims to help reduce the public health problem of unsafe abortion by improving family planning services and postabortion care programs, and by ensuring that safe abortion services are available to the fullest extent allowed by law. Summarizes available facts, highlights the public health impact of abortion mortality and morbidity, provides case studies of model programs, and offers catalogue of existing resources and technical assistance agencies.
Cost to be determined. English, French, and Spanish; January 1999; 150 pages.
Reflections on Emerging Frameworks of Health and Human Rights
Center for Population and Family Health, Columbia University
Focus: Global
This article explores the relationship between public health and human rights and how collaboration between these two disciplines may help transform the social and political structures that currently prevent people from fulfilling their highest potential as human beings.
Free of charge. English; 1995; 33 pages.
A Review of Abortion Policy: Legality, Medicaid Funding, and Parental Involvement, 1967-1994
Population Matters Program, RAND
Focus: United States
Over the last three decades, abortion policy has been among the most contentious of political and legal issues in the United States. This report focuses on the United States Supreme Court decisions that set the constitutional boundaries of state actions regarding abortion legality, provides a documented state-by-state review, and provides commentary on abortion policies state-by-state.
English; 1995; 61 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Safe Motherhood Summary Sheets
Family Care International
Focus: Global
These fact sheets are available in nontechnical and technical versions and cover the following issues: maternal mortality, safe motherhood as a social and economic investment, safe motherhood a human right, pregnancy risk, skilled attendance at delivery, delay of marriage and first birth, quality improvement in maternal health services, improving access, preventing unwanted pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and measuring progress.
Free of charge. English, Spanish, French; 1998; 25 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Sex Differences in Violent Victimization, 1994
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
Focus: United States
Examines similarities and differences in the magnitude and pattern of violent victimization characterized by the sex of the victim.
Free of charge; available online at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/sdvv.htm. English; 1997.
Sex Offenses and Offenders: An Analysis of Data on Rape and Sexual Assault
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
Focus: United States
Information and statistics on sexual assault incident and offenders and sentencing of sex offenders.
Free of charge; available online at: http://blackstone.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/soo.txt. English; 1997.
Sexual Coercion and Reproductive Health: A Focus on Research
Population Council
Focus: Global
This report seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the causes and consequences of sexual coercion across cultures. It provides practical recommendations to those in the family planning/ reproductive health field who desire to conduct research or implement programs to address sexual violence and its impact on women's health.
Single copies free of charge to developing-country audiences; $10 for all others. English; 1995; 59 pages.
Sharing Responsibility: Women, Society, and Abortion Worldwide
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
Focus: Global
An international, comprehensive examination -- in charts and tables -- of the factors that contribute to unplanned pregnancy and the social and economic forces that lead women to decide to end pregnancies. Includes official and estimated levels and patterns of induced abortion worldwide, the conditions under which abortions occur, and examines the influence of variations in laws and administrative regulations.
Free to delegates; $30 for industrialized countries and $10 for developing- country audiences. English; January 1999; 56 pages.
Silence and Complicity: Violence Against Women in Peruvian Public Health Facilities
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and CLADEM (The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights)
Focus: Peru
A human rights analysis of cases in which women are mistreated and abused while seeking reproductive health care from public health care providers in Peru. A video documentary of these women's testimonies is also available.
Cost is $10 for either the report or video; limited number free to NGOs in developing countries. English and Spanish; 1998; 112 pages.
A Transformation Process: Gender Training for Top-Level Management of HIV/AIDS Prevention, A Report
Family Health International
Focus: Africa
Describes an activity aimed to equip top-level managers with the expertise needed to incorporate gender into HIV/AIDS prevention programs through training and sensitization. Focuses on developing methods and skills for revising and designing policies and projects from a gender perspective through training and analysis workshops, action plan implementation, and monitoring/evaluation.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, developing-country audiences, and USAID cooperating agencies. English; 1997; 28 pages.
Victims No More: Girls Fight Back Against Male Violence
Center for Women Policy Studies
Focus: United States
This policy paper presents the findings of the Center's research and data suggesting a link between violence against girls and violence by girls.
Free to delegates, NGO participants, developing-country audiences, and USAID cooperating agencies; $10 for all others. English; 1997; 31 pages. (Also addresses: Adolescents)
Violence Against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned Survey August 1995
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
Focus: United States
Statistics on violence against women including relationship to offender, number of incidents, and outcomes of assault.
Free of charge; available online at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/femvied.txt. English; 1995.
Welfare Reform and Abortion: Research Perspectives
Population Matters Program, RAND
Focus: United States
This paper attempts to draw together what we know today about the likely effects of welfare reform on abortion and to outline promising strategies for evaluating the actual effects of the limited reforms to date and the wider reforms that are likely to follow.
English; 1996; 39 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Why the Global Gag Rule Undermines U.S. Foreign Policy and Harms Women's Health
Population Action International
Focus: United States
Advocacy/Grassroots material.
Free of charge. English; 1998; 2 pages.
Women Behind Bars: Chile's Abortion Laws, A Human Rights Analysis
The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and The Open Forum on Reproductive Health and Rights
Focus: Chile
The Chilean abortion law prohibits all abortions and is one of the most restrictive in the world. Chilean women are prosecuted for obtaining or inducing their own abortions and are, in some cases, sent to prison. This report documents a pattern of human rights abuses against these women.
Cost is $10; limited number free to NGOs in developing countries. English and Spanish; 1998; 98 pages. (Also addresses: Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives
The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
Focus: Anglophone Africa, Latin America, Caribbean
This set of reports that will eventually cover each region of the world documents the laws and policies affecting women's reproductive lives, including information on laws and policies regarding contraception, abortion, sterilization, and HIV/AIDS. Reproductive health and rights of adolescents are also included.
Cost is $25 per volume; limited number free to NGOs in developing countries. English and Spanish; 1997; 173 pages (volume on Anglophone Africa); 206 pages (volume on Latin America and the Caribbean). (Also addresses: Adolescents; Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
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