ARROW is very pleased to share with you the complete series of Reclaiming & Redefining Rights - a compilation of regional overviews and national level case studies on specific sexual and reproductive health and rights issues, such as sexuality, privatization and its impact on SRHR, women’s reproductive autonomy and maternal mortality and morbidity in Asia
Reclaiming & Redefining Rights - Thematic Studies Series
The final book in the Reclaiming & Reclaiming Rights Thematic Studies Series, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in Asia focuses on the issue of maternal mortality and morbidity in six countries in Asia. Chapter 1 explores the indicators relating to the prevention of maternal deaths, promotion of maternal health and maternal morbidities. Chapter 2 focuses on monitoring 15 years of ICPD implementation in China, chapter 3 explores the utilization of public and private health facilities for reproductive health services in rural Tamil Nadu, India, while chapter 4 examines the cultural beliefs and traditional rituals about child birth practices in Lao PDR. Chapter 5 examines the prevalence of uterine prolapse amongst outpatient gynecology patients in Nepal as well as its socio-cultural determinants, chapter 6 explores the barriers to safe motherhood in Pakistan, while chapter 7 focuses on the barriers to timely access to critical safe motherhood services in the region of Muslim Mindanao, Philippines, and chapter 8 presents a compilation of anemia in India and India’s commitments to the ICPD Programme of Action.
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Third in the series, Reclaiming & Redefining Rights – Thematic Studies Series 3: Reproductive Autonomy & Rights in Asia focuses on issues of contraception and unsafe abortion in five countries in Asia. Chapter 1 explores the progress (or lack of thereof) of women’s reproductive autonomy in Asia. Chapter 2 explores contraceptive use in Cambodia and its barriers, while chapter 3 and 4 center on Indonesia and the issues of decentralization and contraception, and unsafe abortion and the need to reform policies in the country. Chapter 5 focuses the barriers to safe motherhood in Pakistan, chapter 6 discusses increasing access to contraceptive information and services, sexual and reproductive education for youth and legal abortion, while chapter 7 is a study that focuses on contraceptive use of young people in the Philippines in selected urban poor communities in Metro Manila.
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This study takes into account four country case studies (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Pakistan and Thailand) and is part of the ICPD+ 15 project, with a specific focus on privatization and it’s impact on sexual and reproductive health services in these countries. Each chapter (chapter 1 – 4) begins with a general background of the country, providing an overview of the health sector and its system, especially in its financing, followed by traversing the history of privatization in the country as well as progress towards universal coverage. It then examines how these larger changes in the health sector have affected universal access to quality reproductive health services.
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Thematic Studies Series 1: Sexuality and Rights in Asia focuses on sexual rights issues in the region drawing from ICPD+15 monitoring study. It focuses on the findings for the regional cross-country indicators that were collected, analysed and verified by ARROW and her partners. These indicators range from choice of partners, consensual sexual relations, consensual marriage, traditional harmful practices, sexual violence, adolescents’ access to information and services, livelihood, sexual orientation and gender identity. In Chapters 2 & 3, the study evaluates the status of the program of action undertaken by the government and the concerned NGOs in the field of sexuality education and sexual harassment in workplaces and in educational institutions and discusses obstacles that hinder the progress of actions in enforcing respective laws and implementing policies and interventions. The findings of the study note while that sex education is more comprehensive than before, gaps do exist in implementing comprehensive sexuality education in school systems. In the area of sexual harassment findings point to widespread sexual harassment embedded in Thai patriarchal culture. Sexual harassment in Thailand have not yet been inclusively defined and standardized, resulting in inconsistent law enforcement, interpretation, and public concern toward the problem. In Chapter 4, the study recommends the states to create and implement laws, policies and programs that facilitate transgender people’s access to education, health, housing, work and an adequate standard of living, and eliminate discrimination and other forms of violence faced by transgender people.
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A comprehensive monitoring report of 15 years of ICPD implementation in 12 Asian countries, this report covers areas of women's empowerment, reproductive health, reproductive rights, sexual health and sexual rights. This monitoring report on the status of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Asia paints a picture of uneven progress across 12 countries. Without full implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action, it will not be possible to Achieve Goal 5: reducing maternal mortality and ensuring universal access to reproductive health; and other Milennium Goals that are inextricably linked to PoA.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Setting the Context
Chapter 3: Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights
Chapter 4: Sexual Health and Sexual Rights
Chapter 5: Recommendations
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Reclaiming & Redefining Rights - Thematic Studies Series 4: Maternal Mortality Morbidity in Asia
