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The
10th International Women and Health Meeting (IWHM) seeks
to highlight politics, policies and issues that adversely affect
women's health and simultaneously bring out the linkages and interconnections
of these seemingly disparate phenomena. As the title of the theme
suggests, the meeting attempts to reiterate the holistic concept
of health, and to strengthen the claim for health care and health
as a justified right for all people. The lessons learnt from contemporary
forms of advocacy, campaigns, mobilisation and resistance to callous,
coercive or exploitative state policies will be highlighted, for
sharing and networking across other groups and regions. The 10th
IWHM hopes that such global networking will eventually build into
a movement that can make a difference to people's lives and in particular,
to women's lives.
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The
International Women and Health Meeting (IWHM) has its roots in the
global women's movement and includes a wide range of organisations,
networks, and grassroots women's groups. The 10th IWHM will mark
nearly two and a half decades of the global feminist solidarity
on issues that impinge on the health and well being of women.The
2005 Meeting is a significant one as it comes at a moment in history
when several national and international forces adversely impact
women's health. The current context of global economic restructuring
and liberalization of markets, increasing militarization of countries
and regions, growing fundamentalisms of various hues, resurgence
of population policies, adoption and practice of developmental models
and paradigms that are playing havoc with the environment, call
for urgent action by civil society bodies, including women's groups
all over the world.
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The 10th IWHM aims to centre stage the issue of women's health as
a fundamental right by providing a forum for participants to:
- Understand
the multi-dimensional ways in which this right is facilitated
or violated.
- Share the
current modes of facilitation of these rights and / or struggles
to oppose violations.
- Examine linkages
between issues and form a broad consensus on positions revolving
around the focal themes of the meeting.
- Strategize
and help in strengthening the women's health movement.
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