IRRRAG. (Monitoring Country Activities).* The International Reproductive Rights Research Action Group (IRRRAG) met for a week from 25 to 29 March in Kuala Lumpur to discuss and finalise the country reports for the research project, "Investigating the Role of Men in Women's Reproductive and Sexual Health". This action-oriented research project, also known as IRRRAG 2, was chaired by the International Co-ordinating Office (ICO ICO Icon (File Name Extension) ICO In Case Of ICO Information Commissioner's Office (UK) ICO Instituto de Crédito Oficial (Spain: Official Credit Institute) ), ARROW. The countries involved are Brazil, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines. Representatives from all the countries, except Nigeria, attended the meeting. The research centred on the need to learn more about women's and men's attitudes and perceptions on male involvement in reproductive/sexual health decision-making. The meeting aimed to: 1) Identify key findings, commonalities and differences across the countries; and their significance for policy and programme design, implementation and evaluation at the national and international levels; 2) Strengthen dissemination and policy/programme advocacy plans for research findings nationally and internationally; and 3) Plot IRRRAG's future direction. Part of the meeting was a panel discussion and sharing of findings with stakeholders in family planning family planning Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. and reproductive health issues who were based in Malaysia but worked nationally and regionally. They included key personnel from the International Planned Parenthood Federation The International Planned Parenthood Federation is a global non-governmental organization with the broad aims of promoting sexual and reproductive health, and advocating the right of individuals to make their own choices in family planning. (IPPF IPPF International Planned Parenthood Federation IPPF Independent Power Producers Forum (Hong Kong) IPPF Infrastructure Project Preparation Facility IPPF International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation ) ESEAOR Office, the Federation of Family Planning Associations, Malaysia (FFPAM), International Council on the Management of Population Programmes (ICOMP (Intel COmparative Microprocessor Performance) An earlier index of CPU performance from Intel. iCOMP Version 1.0 tested a mix of 16-bit and 32-bit integer, floating point, graphics and video operations. Versions 2.0 and 3. ), Malaysian AIDS Council, National Family and Population Board (NFPB NFPB Northern Friends Peace Board (UK) NFPB National Federation of Professional Bullriders NFPB National Friends of Public Broadcasting ) and the Ministry of Health. The panel discussed IRRRAG's research into women's sexual pleasure as a sexual and reproductive right, whether the teams had uncovered direct links between reproductive rights and poverty and how to make women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and issues less threatening to men. Source: ARROW. 2002. Report of the IRRRAG meeting on "Investigating the Role of Men in Women's Reproductive & Sexual Health", 25-29 March 2002 at Corus Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [Unpublished]. |
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