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The human rights of women include their right to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality including sexual and reproductive health, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. Equal relationships between women and men in matters of sexual relations and reproduction, including full respect for the integrity of the person, require mutual respect, consent and shared responsibility for sexual behaviour and its consequences.

Platform for Action of Fourth World Conference on Women,
Beijing, 1995

ASTRA at AWID Conference 14-17 Nov 2008, Cape Town

Here you can find a link to the first part of the presentation on reproductive rights in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia. It addresses the right to abortion, sexuality education and contraception by Wanda Nowicka at AWID Forum.

Second part of Wanda Nowicka presentation is available here.

Presentation about "Building SRHR movement in CEE as a response to the rise of religious fundamentalisms" by Wanda Nowicka.

In the Photo Gallery you can see photos from the Conference.

Oral statement during plenary on the Contexts of Our Organizing by Wanda Nowicka can be heard at www.awid.org.

AWID presentation of Nadiya Bedrychuk from Ukraine.

AWID presentation of Sanja Cesar from Croatia.

AWID speech of Irene Pavlenishvili from Georgia.

Empowerment of WLWHA in Eastern and Central Europe

Here you can find a link to the video recording of the Women Arise! session ”How to Guarantee Women's and Girls' Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the HIV/AIDS Response?”

Here you can find a link to ASTRA Network's statement regarding women and girls living with HIV/AIDS in Central and Eastern Europe

News

Conference on abortion in Lithuanian Parliament :: 2008-06-16 00:00

On the 11th of June Family Planning and Sexual Health Association of Lithuania, together with Parliamentarian Group on Development, Reproductive Health and Rights, with Lithuanian Society of Gynecologists, Lithuanian Society of Contraceptology organized conference on abortion in the Lithuanian Parliament.

Agata has had enough :: 2008-06-12 00:00

The police took me to the emergency child care center. That was the most horrible moment in this entire story. I couldn’t believe they were separating me from mom and grandma – 14-year-old Agata tells us.

Abortion Refused to a Raped 14-year-old :: 2008-06-09 00:00

A 14-year-old girl who had been raped was admitted to a hospital in Warsaw to terminate the pregnancy. However, a priest and activists of pro-life movements followed her every step. They have made the accusation of coercing a minor to have an abortion, the prosecution is investigating the case. And the procedure has not taken place.

Lithuania :: 2008-05-26 00:00

In May the very conservative law on family was set in Lithuania. It provoked a lot of discussions about the status of abortion act that is going to be decided soon.

Campala (Uganda), April 24 - 25, 2008; The report about a conference devoted to the project RMA - Project Resources Mobilization :: 2008-05-19 00:00

Evgenia Koulikova as an ASTRA representative took part in a conference organized by PAI in connection with the project RH Supplies that involved 8 ASTRA countries and organizations.
At the meeting around 15 participants were present, most of them were representatives of Uganda, but also from USA, New Zeland, Brussels and Russia.
All people were from different regional and global NGOs network. Also, representatives from UNFPA and the reproductive Health Supplies Coalition had been invited as examples of global strategies in the area of supplies that had a governmental participation.
All participants made small presentations about their work and experience. Evgenia talked about ASTRA and ASTRA Youth. One of the biggest topic was "The mechanisms for stakeholders to communicate and share ideas to sustain coordinated advocacy efforts". The discussion was mostly about Uganda situation but all opinions from different places were very welcome. They agreed that access to condoms might be crucial in preventing HIV infections. They talked why Reproductive Health Supplies are vital to achieving the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) and why RHS are crucial to reduct the poverty, what is really actual in Uganda.
On the second day of the meeting participants visited National Medical Stores.
The meeting was very sucessful, informative and well prepared.

May 16th 2008 - University in Exile Award for Wanda Nowicka :: 2008-05-19 00:00

On May 16th Wanda Nowicka – Polish feminist and human rights activist - received prestigious the University in Exile Award granted by the New School – the University in New York.

Genetic testing for health purposes: a new Council of Europe Protocol :: 2008-05-12 00:00

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has just adopted a new Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine concerning Genetic Testing for Health Purposes.

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