HEALTH
Women and health has always been one of our key focus areas. Starting with action against the misuse of combination hormonal E.P. drugs, we have campaigned against sex determination and pre-selection, coercive population control policies and programmes, long acting hazardous contraceptives, new reproductive technologies, and more lately, unethical trials and promotion of HPV vaccines and the growing misuse of emergency contraceptives. We have struggled to make the State accountable, pressed for women’s right to information, demanded safer contraceptives and adequate health facilities, and redressal in cases of abuse or adverse effects. We have militated against government measures like the 2-child norm that penalise women for decisions over which they have no control. We have also critiqued legislations affecting women’s health including ethical guidelines in medical research, raised concerns about the power imbalances inherent in the research process, and attempted to build in safeguards for women participating in clinical trials. Our activities, hence, ranged from exercising legal options, to lobbying, networking with groups in India and abroad, holding seminars, signature campaigns, exhibitions, performing street plays, and distributing leaflets, to storming meetings, marching in rallies, holding sit-ins and even posing as decoy patients! Through our publications and exhibitions, we have sought to expose the vested interests of the government, scientific establishment and the market, and enable women to make autonomous choices based on adequate information. ARTICLES ON HISTORY & PERSPECTIVE OTHER ARTICLESOUR HEALTH CAMPAIGNS Putting Women First Souvenir 2006 HAZARDOUS CONTRACEPTIVES. Targetting the Women of the World Souvenir 1995 POPULATION CONTROL: Extermination of People Souvenir 1995 MANUFACTURING CONSENT
Impact of the Donor Agenda on the Women’s Health Movement. A Presentation. Newsletter Sep - Dec 2005
MANUFACTURING CONSENT Delhi Dialogues Newsletter Sep - Dec 2005 10th International Women's Health Meet (IWHM), Delhi SHARING THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT
An Introduction Chapter from Narivadi Rajneeti: Sangharsh Evam
Mudde (Feminist Politics: Struggles and Issues), Hindi Medium Implementation Board, University of Delhi, 2000
TIME FOR ETHICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDICAL ETHICS Newsletter Jan 2000 Souvenir 1988 Souvenir 1988 PROTEST AGAINST UNETHICAL ICMR MEDICAL RESEARCH Newsletter Mar 1998 UPDATE ON EP DRUGS CAMPAIGN REPORT OF PUBLIC HEARING Newsletter Oct 1987 FAMILY PLANNING: AT WHO’S COST? Newsletter Sep 1986 |