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In this section, PeaceWomen classifies information by Theme- Health - and by Subthemes: General; HIV/AIDS; and Reproductive Health

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  • January 10, 2012 (Women's News Network)
    AFRICA: Medical Experts Africa Say Maternal Mortality is a Human Rights Violation An International expert on Women's and Health Specialist has spoken out on the topic in the number of deaths occurring worldwide from maternal mortality. “It is a human rights violation because most countries in the world had signed to the United Nations declaration on the right to life,” says Ottowa, Canada based Dr. Andre Lalonde, former executive vice-president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.
  • January 6, 2012 (Daily Observer)
    LIBERIA: Women in Retrospect 2011 Before we finally close the chapter on 2011, flipping a fresh page for a new beginning in 2012, let's not forget that the unresolved issues of 2011 and other past years are still in need of solutions.
  • January 4, 2012 (The Observer)
    UGANDA: UDPF in AIDS Fight Sergeant Eunice Kisembo discovered she was HIV positive in 2001 after her release from Luzira Prison. Kisembo says during a three-and-half-year term imprisonment on allegations of aiding LRA rebels, prison warders commanded her to walk naked and one raped her.
  • January 3, 2012 (Women News Network)
    BAHRAIN: Report: Excessive Use of Tear Gas Endangers Women Protesters Bahrain Expressing grave concern about the ongoing violence that has impacted Bahrain with forty-four casualties, the BCHR – Bahrain Center for Human Rights is asking for a stop measure in the use of excessive force on Bahraini citizens and activists, especially the excessive use of tear gas as a hazardous chemical.
  • December 28, 2011 (Trust Law)
    INDIA: "Silent Observer" Fails to Silence India's Activists on Girl Abortions A new device called a "Silent Observer" -- hailed as a solution to curbing the practice of aborting female babies in India -- has drawn criticism from activists who say the technology is more a government eyewash than an answer.

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