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This publication is a compilation of papers presented at an ARROW-WDF symposium held at the 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR). It highlights the critical linkage between diabetes and women’s sexual and reproductive health. The three papers aim to provide an overview of the scale and burden of the disease in the Asia-Pacific region, an understanding of the negative impact of diabetes on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes, on the health of women and future generations, and on the sexuality and sexual health of men and women.
The concluding chapter, synthesizes the key points presented in the three papers, makes strategic recommendations for action, and presents advocacy opportunities for reducing deaths and disabilities and improving the health of women and future generations. Definitions of medical terms are provided to enhance understanding of issues, in addition to statistical data and resources. We hope this publication will advance the understanding of the issues and that the recommendations to the policy makers, programme implementers, medical practitioners, donors and other stakeholders will be translated into concrete action.
This advocacy brief by ARROW aims to inform policy-makers and decision-makers on the critical linkages between eliminating gender-based violence and achieving the Millennium Development Goals, particularly Goal 5 on improving maternal health and providing universal access to reproductive health.
 
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Regional Overview - MDG5 in Asia: Progress, Gaps and Challenges 2000-2010
This Regional Brief looks at progress gaps and challenges on MDG5 in Asia. The brief calls for the need to, re-look at the indicators to assess Millennium Development Goal 5; strengthen health systems capacities at the national level; and address data gaps. The regional brief recommends that a comprehensive review process that involves active participation of all stakeholders is institutionalized.
 
The Beijing Platform for Action (1995) was a landmark conference after the ICPD Programme of Action (POA), since most of the gains made at the ICPD were further amplified at the Beijing Platform for Action. This Platform for Action reasserted women's reproductive rights to have control over and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to sexuality. It took a more progressive stance where it affirms the removal of legal barriers to abortions to save women's lives , promote their health and empowers women. Fifteen years after the Beijing platform for Action, the briefing paper assesses the WOMEN AND HEALTH strategic objective. The briefing paper draws on the evidence form the ICPD+15 regional report "Reclaiming & Redefining Rights - ICPD+15: Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Asia
Surfacing: Selected Papers on Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Impact on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Surfacing offers papers that came out of a 2007 ARROW symposium on the impact of religious fundamentalisms on Asia-Pacific women's sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan (the Philippines), Jashodhara Dasgupta (India), Kalpana Kannabiran (South Asia) and Zaitun Mohammad Kasim (Islamic countries) problematise and articulate the varied impact of Catholic, Hindu and Islamic fundamentalisms on SRHR, and begin the discussion on strategies for addressing these obstacles. Michael Tan, in his synthesis, draws out the convergences around the various types and forms of religious fundamentalisms across the region. The book concludes with Rashidah Abdullah's paper on ways to move forward toward meeting the challenges of religious fundamentalisms, while ensuring that advocacies are contextualised in the spiritual lives of women in the region.
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ARROW. 2008. Surfacing: Selected Papers on Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Impact on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: ARROW. 76p. Price: US$5.00 plus US$5.00 postal charges
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