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Realising Rights in the News
Work with informal providers of healthcare in the news in Bangladesh
Read newspaper coverage, in Bangla, of BRAC's workshop on formal and informal providers of sexual reproductive health services.
Launch of the Global Mapping of Pleasure
We are pleased to announce the launch of the mapping at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico. More information for the media...
Abortion in the news
Unsafe abortion has had a high profile in the UK in recent weeks due to proposed changes to domestic legislation. A Realising Rights' letter to the Guardian Editor focussed on the international situation. The Realising Rights letter to the Guardian on unsafe abortion was picked up by our local paper the Evening Argus.
Media Prizes!
As a way of increasing the quality and quantity of media coverage of research, as well as interesting journalists in reporting on research, APHRC sponsored two journalist awards. Read more...
BRAC university School of Public health host international workshop on Gender and Sexuality.
"I think it is also important to challenge and inspire people, to rethink and push boundaries." Dr. Sabina Faiz Rashid, RPC Coordinator and Assistant Professor at BRAC University.
To read media coverage please see the article in Star Weekend Magazine or The News Today.
February 2007, Domestic Violence Bill passed in Ghana, source Ghana News Agency more...
A recent WHO bulletin included an article by our Ghana partners, INDEPTH Network, on 'The Navrongo experiment in Ghana'.
World Health Day 2007
International Health Security is the theme on 7 April.
Dr Hilary Standing, Director of Realising Rights is one of the contributors to the IDS World Health Day podcast, highlighting the issue of unsafe abortion. 
Unsafe abortion in the news
Unsafe abortion highlighted in 'The Economist'. More...
Realising Rights at Events
Meeting on the political economy of sex work
Despite various conferences and declarations reliable research and policy analysis of sex work and prostitution as a gender, development, human rights and public health issue is lacking. Later this month IDS will host a meeting to begin the process of planning ways to forge links between academics, policy analysts and sex workers.
Realising Rights at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico
The conference saw the official launch of the Global Mapping of Pleasure. To find out more read the press release (pdf).
Discover what other sessions we were involved in.
Read news from the conference on the STEPS Centre blog.
Read the presentation given by Jerker Edstrom of the Institute of Development Studies at the MenEngage satellite or a summary of the session (pdf).
"Politicising Masculinities: Beyond the Personal".
During October 2007, a diverse mix of people came together in
Dakar, Senegal, to debate issues of men, gender and power:
unconventional practical academics, open-minded policymakers,
reflective practitioners and activists. Read the report here.
The Realising Rights RPC was well represented at the 5th African Population Conference: Emerging Issues in Population and Development, held in Arusha, Tanzania from 10-14th December 2007. APHRC organized the meeting in conjunction with the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) and the Ministry of Planning and Economic Empowerment of the United Republic of Tanzania. Dr Eliya Zulu, Deputy Director of APHRC, is the President of UAPS and delivered an opening speech to over 900 conference delegates from many countries. Click here for conference report, photos and copies of the presentations.
Realising Rights organised a panel session at the Marie Stopes International Global Safe Abortion Conference in London 23 & 24 October 2007.
Listen to the interview about unsafe abortion on Network Africa, BBC World Service
by Reproductive Health and Rights Alliance (RHRA), Kenya partipants in the Realising Rights panel.
Kaosar Afsana and Hilary Standing represented the Realising Rights RPC at the Women Deliver conference on maternal health in London on 18 October. They presented at a session called 'Improving women's lives in Bangladesh: Experiences of BWHC and BRAC'
5th African Population Conference: Emerging Issues in Population and Development, Arusha, Tanzania 10-14th December 2007
The Realising Rights RPC was very well represented at the 5th African Population Conference. Click here for Conference report...
Link to Eliya Zulu, Deputy Director of APHRC, opening speech
Link to Hilary Standing, Director of Realising Rights presentation
Link to Ayaga Bawah's, INDEPTH presentation
Link to John Cleland, LSHTM presentation
Link to Eliya Zulu's, APHRC presentation
Link to Sabina Faiz Rashid's BRAC presentation
On 26th June Jo Crichton, of APHRC, attended an abortion tribunal in Nairobi .
The Realising Rights RPC organised a well attended and lively panel session on Gender and Health at the 5th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, May 24–28, 2007 in Amsterdam
Chaired by Sally Theobald, the panel focused on abortion as a gender and health equity issue. Hilary Standing gave a keynote presentation setting the scene on why unsafe abortion is such an important issue from a gender perspective. Claudia Surjadjaja, who has just completed her doctorate at the LSHTM, spoke on her research on policy analysis of abortion law reform, the dynamics of state power and women’s rights in Indonesia. She was followed by two recent graduates of BRAC University School of Public Health’s MPH programme. Nangmo Hom presented her research findings on the quality of service delivery in clinics providing menstrual regulation services in Bangladesh. Amit Bhandari presented his research findings on barriers in access to safe abortion services: perspectives of potential clients of a hilly district of Nepal.
January 2007 saw the launch of a new report by the UK All Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health - Return of the population growth factor http://www.appg-popdevrh.org.uk... >>
Dr Hilary Standing, Director of Realising Rights and RPC researchers contributed to the parliamentary hearings which informed this report and is quoted on the IDS website. more...
