Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, Newsletter 78, March 2003

 Content List

• Coordination Report
• Evaluation of the Anti-Fertility Vaccine Campaign (1993-2001)
• Letters to the Editor
• Cameroonian Committee of Reflection on Abortion (CCRA), by Elvire Beleoken

Global Health Promotion and Transnational Corporations: Agendas in Conflict, The Gerber-Guatemala Precedent for Government Autonomy, By Julei Busch, B.Sc., C.S., Doula, Co-founder BirthPassages Collective.

UNICEF and McDonalds the perils of partnerships, by Patti Rundall, Baby Milk Action

Nigeria: Appreciating the Plight of Domestic Workers, by Adebanke Akinrimisi

Militarism and Reproductive Freedom, by Betsy Hartmann

Costa Rica: All Women Have the Right to a Dignified and Safe Childbirth: Campaign for the Humanization of Childbirth in Costa Rica, by PRIMAL

Senegal: Changing tradition to safeguard women: Villagers join campaigns against female genital mutilation, By Nirit Ben-Ari

Something stronger than fairytales;  Why I am a (queer) postmodern feminist, by Dr Tamsin Wilton

Projects and Actions

• Mauritius 33,000 letters ... Asking men to act responsibly, Philippine NGOs Statement at the 5^th Asian Pacific Population Conference The Initiative for Sexual & Reproductive Rights in Health Reforms
• Nicaragua: I also want to be excomulgated a campaign by the Womens Network against Violence
• May 28, 2002 Reports: Serbia and Montenegro, India, Uruguay, Philippines

Updates

• Vatican Says Word 'Gender' Is Anti-Church Code
• Pakistan, 520 women gang raped during the year 2002
• Belgium: Parents pay to choose baby's sex. Doctor's gender clinic revealed: Will it be a boy or a girl? By Jo Revill, health editor, The Observer

Conferences & Meetings

• Report: 2nd WABA Global Forum, September 2002 at Arusha, Tanzania.

Book Reviews