LACWHN campaigns for Women's Health, against violence.Since 1996, the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. Network has supported women's groups and organizations of our region that undertake activities to promote May 28, International Day of Action for Women's Health, and November 25, International Day Against Violence Against Women. This support in the form of a modest financial contribution has allowed the participating groups--most of which are community organizations with extremely limited resources--to undertake actions to increase awareness about the campaign themes among specific target sectors or the general public. Over these seven years, hundreds of groups--including NGOs, networks, feminist collectives, and mixed, youth and grassroots groups--have taken part in the calls for action to promote the right to health as a human and civil right and women's right to live free from all forms of violence. In the context of these activism and advocacy campaigns, the groups have organized a range of events, including: consciousness-raising workshops, fora, conferences and roundtables; art expositions, theater productions, street fairs and demonstrations; advocacy actions targeting specific sectors of the government or legislature; and many other activities. These actions have targeted women, men and young people in the belief that it will take a variety of actions to improve the recognition of 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 . This experience has been extremely enriching for LACWHN and has encouraged us to invent new ways to support the groups' initiatives and to broaden the demands of the health movement to incorporate other potential allies sympathetic to our goals. In light of this history, in 2002 LACWHN launched the Regional Contest "For Women's Health and Against Violence" in commemoration of November 25. Some 30 groups and organizations presented experiences promoting prevention and treatment of domestic and sexual violence. The evaluations took into account a number of factors including creativity and innovation, comprehensiveness, impact, relation to other social sectors and continuity (i.e., that the project not be limited to the commemorative com·mem·o·ra·tive adj. Honoring or preserving the memory of another. n. Something that honors or preserves the memory of another. com·mem date of November 25 but have an impact over time). The panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
The contest winners were announced on May 28, 2003, at the Second Women's Parliament for Health Sector Reform held in Santiago, Chile Santiago, officially Santiago de Chile (Spanish: (helpinfo)), is the capital of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation (Greater Santiago). : 1st Place: The Red Chilena contra la Violencia La Violencia (literally "The Violence", in Spanish) is a term that refers to an era of civil conflict in various areas of the Colombian countryside between supporters of the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party, a conflict which took place roughly Domestica y Sexual (Chilean Network Against Sexual and Domestic Violence) for the On-going Communications Campaign for the Eradication of Violence Against Women and Girls. 2nd Place: Nicaragua's Colectivo de Mujeres de Matagalpa (Matagalpa Women's Collective) for the campaign, "We Want to Live Free From Violence" and Chile's DOMOS, Corporacion de Desarrollo de la Mujer (Women's Development Corporation) for their communications initiative, "Violence has a Thousand Faces." 3rd Place: Centro de Apoyo y Promocion al Desarrollo Agrario, CAPRODA (Peru), Colectivo de Mujeres Malhuen (Chile), Maria Mulher, Organizacao de Mulheres Negras (Brazil), and Servicio a la Accion Popular, SeAP (Argentina). In addition, Nicaragua's Red de Mujeres contra la Violencia (Women's Network Against Violence) was recognized with an honorable mention for its defense of Rosita, a Nicaraguan girl who became pregnant after being raped. The dedicated support of this network, which drew on all its human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and alliances, made it possible for Rosita to receive a safe, legal termination of pregnancy termination of pregnancy Induced abortion. See Abortion. under the Nicaraguan law allowing therapeutic abortion Abortion, Therapeutic Definition Therapeutic abortion is the intentional termination of a pregnancy before the fetus can live independently. Abortion has been a legal procedure in the United States since 1973. . The following Sharing Our Experiences section includes brief summaries of the award-winning initiatives in the hopes that these successful experiences may be repeated in other contexts. We also include a review of LACWHN's advocacy and activism campaign with an analysis by LACWHN board member Ana Maria Pizarro, director of Nicaragua's Servicios Integrales para la Mujer, SI Mujer. |
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