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Women & Health Online Dialogue

Expert Group Meeting
on
Women and Health

Mainstreaming
the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector

Tunis (Tunisia)
28 September to 2 October 1998

Background Documents

Beijing Declaration Platform for Action

  "Women and Health"

Gender Management Systems in the Health Sector  by Professor Stephen A. Matlin

Keywords: Gender Management Systems; approaches to women in development; Commonwealth initiative; institutional infrastructures; intersectoral processes; stakeholders; steps for developing a Gender Management System.

Rights to Sexual and Reproductive Health - the ICPD and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women  by Dr. Carmel Shalev

Key words: human rights; gender discrimination; equality; autonomy; choice; informed consent; confidentiality; CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)


United Nations
Division for the Advancement of Women
2 UN Plaza, DC2-12th Floor
New York, NY 10017
USA
Home location: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw

E-mail address: daw@un.org