Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, Newsletter 80, November 2003 

Coordination Report

• Additional Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights Some Remarks by Elvire Beleoken, African Networking Programme
• Cairo and Beijing Celebrating the 10^th Anniversaries?

The Corner House Project

• Women, Population Control, Public Health and Globalisation The project
• Re-imagining the Population Debate by Larry Lohmann
• The Origins of the Third World Markets, States and Climate by Mike Davis

Projects & Actions

• The Women's Centre at the Kurdish Refugee Camp in Maxmur, Irak by Ann-Kristin Kowarsch
• First Global Women's Scorecard on the Bush Administration by Jodi L. Jacobson
• Creation of the National Consortium for Reproductive and Sexual Rights in Argentina, CoNDERS
• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Center for Womens Global Leadership
• Campaign for Women's Lives Not One More Death, Redfem

 Meetings & Conferences

• Sexual and Bodily Rights as Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, Malta, June 2003 by Liz Ercevik Amado
• Africa Advocacy Workshop on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Lusaka, June 2003 by Neema Mgana
• Workshop on Strategies for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion - 18^th National Conference on Women, July 2003, Argentina, by Foro por los Derechos Reproductivos
• Afro-Arab Expert Consultation on Legal Tools for the Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation, Cairo, June 2003

 Updates

• A Controversial Law Threatens Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Japan by Yuriko Ashino
• Fistula Affects 100,000 women every year in Africa
• 90% of Women Suffer Genital Mutilation in Northern Sudan