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Abortion

• Estimates of Health Care System Costs of Unsafe Abortion In Africa and Latin America, Guttmacher Institute
• Fulfilling commitments under the ICPD PoA and the MDGs: Advancing women's access to safe abortion, IPAS
• Abortion in Women's Lives, Guttmacher Institute 
• Making Abortion Safe, Legal and Accessible: A Toolkit for Action, Center for Reproductive Rights
• United States: Restrictions on Abortion and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch
• The Estimated Instances of Induced Abortions in Ethiopia, Guttmacher Institute and Ipas
• Caring for Women with Post-Abortion Complications in Ethiopia: National Estimates and Future Implications, Guttmacher Institute and Ipas
• What Women Want: meeting the global demand for medical abortion, MSI
• Abortion in Ghana, Guttmacher Institute
• In Good Conscience: Conscience Clauses and Reproductive Rights in Europe - Who Decides?, Catholics for Choice
• The Evidence Speaks for Itself: Ten Facts About Abortion, IPAS

Advocacy 

• The EuroMapping Project: on how to strengthen European advocacy and mobilising public funding in the fields of population, sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.
• Photo database: For photographic and video material, please see PLANetWIRE.org (www.planetwire.org/audiovisuals.php)
• The Road to Global Reproductive Health was developed for EuroNGOs and guides our media strategies. It can be downloaded here. 

• Promoting the Inclusion of Activities Related to SRH in Proposals to the Global Fund, Global AIDS Alliance (GAA), May 2006 

• UN Reform and Advancing Human Rights: Notes for Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights Advocates, Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD)

• The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: An Instrument for Advancing Reproductive and Sexual Rights, Center for Reproductive Rights 

• Time to Think Positive about Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Eldis 

• Third Edition of the Application of Human Rights to Reproductive & Sexual Health: A Compilation of the Work of International Human Rights Treaty Bodies, Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) 

• ICPD At Ten - A report Card, Population Action International (PAI)

• Advancing SRHR: a follow up of Spanish ODA 1995-2005, Spanish Interest Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health (SIG)

Development Aid

• 21st Century Aid: Recognising Success and Tackling Failure, Oxfam
• Euromapping 2010, DSW and EPF
• The Global Fund Exploring New Ground: Investing in Health Systems and MDG 5, IPPF EN
• EU Aid in Rwanda, DSW
• The Annual Budget Procedure of the EU: A Practical Guide for SRH Activisits, DSW

Development Agendas 

• Interesting and updated blog on post 2015 scenarios, from Women Deliver
• Thinking Ahead. Development Models and Indicators of Well-being Beyond the MDGs, Jens Martens, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation/Global Policy Forum Europe (2010)
• The MDG Project in Crisis. Midpoint Review and Prospects for the Future, J. Martens, T. Debiel, INEF (2008)
• Getting to a post-2015 framework. What are the scenarios?, A. Pollard, CAFOD (2011)
• 100 Voices Full Report-Southern perspectives on what should come after the Millenium Development Goals, CAFOD (2011)
• Looking back, moving forward. Results and recommendations from the ICPD- at-15 process , UNFPA (2010)
• The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015, Lancet and LIDC (2010)
• The MDGs after the crisis, Global Monitoring Report 2010, The World Bank (2010)
• Climate change as part of the post-2015 development agenda, L. Scott with A. Shepherd, Overseas Development Institute (2011)
• Development Futures in the Context of Climate Change: Challenging the Present and Learning from the Past, Brooks N., Grist, N. and Brown, K., Development Policy Review 27 (2009)
• Using indicators to encourage development. Lessons from the Millennium Development Goals, R. Manning, DIIS REPORT (2009)
• Global Poverty Reduction to 2015 and Beyond: What has been the Impact of the MDGs and What are the Options for a Post-2015 Global Framework?, A. Sumner, M. Tiwari, Institute of Development Studies (2010)
• Beyond the BICs: identifying the ‘emerging middle powers’ and understanding their role in global poverty reduction, Brooks World Poverty Institute (2010)
• The Millennium Development Goals: a cross-sectoral analysis and principles for goal setting after 2015, Lancet and London International Development Centre Commission (2010)
• After 2015: progress and challenges for development, C. Melamed, L. Scott, Overseas Development Institute ODI (2011)
• A progressive agenda for global action, Policy Network (2008)
• The Political Economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and Prospect for the World’s Biggest Promise, D. Hulme, J. Scott, Brooks World Poverty Institute (2010)
• EU Donors under women watch, WIDE (2011)
• Gender at the heart of ICPD: The Unfpa Strategic Framework on Gender Mainstreaming and Women’s Empowerment, UNFPA (2011)
• What do aid architecture and new aid modalities have to do with gender?, GTZ (2009)
• Development Cooperation Beyond the Aid Effectiveness Paradigm: A women’s rights perspective, AWID (2011)

FGM (Female Genital Mutilation)

HIV/AIDS 

• AIDS dependency crisis: sourcing African solutions, UNAIDS (2012)

• Transforming the national aids response. Advancing women leadership and participation, UNIFEM and Athena (2010)

• Integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programmes in the health sector. Tools to improve responsiveness to women’s needs, WHO (2009)

• Global plan towards the elimination of new Hiv infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive 2011-2015, UNAIDS (2011)

• Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS, Center for Women's Global Leadership

• Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of People Living With HIV, Guttmacher Institute

• Synergising HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights,  Aidsnet and WHO/Europe

• Fact Sheet on Youth and HIV/AIDS Prevention, Advocates for Youth 

• HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health - linking the response,  Asia Pacific Alliance

• Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS- An inventory,  WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS, IPPF

• A framework for priority linkages, WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS, IPPF 

• NGO Support Toolkit CD-ROM, AIDS Alliance
  2006 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, UNAIDS

• Women and HIV/AIDS, OEGF
• Show Us the Money: Is Violence Against Women on the HIV & AIDS Funding Agenda?, Women Won't Wait
• Resources Scenarios 2011-2013: Funding the Global Fund Against HIV/ AIDS, Tuberculosis and Maleria, The Global Fund
• UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010, UNAIDS

Millennium Development Goals

• Meeting the Goals of the ICPD Programme of Action: Key Challenges and Priorities for Asia and the Pacific, Fifteen Years On, International Council on Management of Population Programmes (2009)
• Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980–2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5, WHO (2010)
• A Review of MDGs & SRHR in Asia & the Pacific . An Annotated Bibliography 2010, Arrow (2010)
• Accelerated actions to enhance progress on Millennium Development Goal 5 through advancing Target 5B, WHO (2011)
• Sexual and Reproductive Health for All. Reducing poverty, advancing development and protecting human rights, UNFPA (2010)
• Adding It Up. The Costs and Benefit s of Investing in Family Planning and Maternal and Newborn Health, UNFPA and Guttmacher Institute (2009)
• Thematic Paper on MDG 3. Promote Gender Equality and empower women, UNIFEM (2010
• Asia-Pacific Regional Report 2009/10, ESCAP, ADB and UNDP

• Live and Living MDG 5 Shadow Report, ARROW
• The Millennium Development Goals and the Road to 2015: Building on Progress and Responding to Crisis, World Bank
• Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2008, WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank
• MDG 1: Cambodia Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger Film, UNIFEM
• MDG 3: Liberia Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Film, UNIFEM
• MDG 6: Botswana Combat HIV/AIDS Film, UNIFEM
• The Missing MDG Target: Violence against Women Film, UNIFEM
• Gender Equality in the MDGs - What are the Missing Dimensions?, OECD

The MDGs and SRHR

• Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization , September 2006

• Public Choices, Private Decisions: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals , UN Millennium Project, May 2006 

• How Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services is Key to the MDGs, Population Action International
• Countdown to 2015 Decade Report, Countdown to 2015

Religion

• Advancing Reproductive Health and Family Planning through Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Organizations, Pathfinder

Reproductive Health (RH) and Reproductive Health Supplies

Publications on SRHR and related issues

• Population Briefs, Population Council

• A Client-centred Approach to Reproductive Health: A Trainer's Manual,  Population Council

• Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for Reproductive Health in Crisis Situations, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children 
• Facts on the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescent Women in the Developing World, IPPF and the Guttmacher Institute

• Reproductive Health and Commodities, OEGF
• Facts on Barriers to Contraception Use in the Philippines, Guttmacher Institute
• Contraceptive Security and Meeting Reproductive Health Needs in Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific Alliance
• Quick Reference Guide to Family Planning, Family Planning Initiative
• Facts on Satisfying the Need for Contraception in Developing Countries, IPPF and the Guttmacher Institute
• Benefits of Meeting the Contraceptive Needs of Ethiopian Women, Guttmacher Institute and the Ethiopian Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

SRHR and Human Rights

Many further publications, articles on projects on the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health can be found, eg, at the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex.  

• Whose Right to Life?: Women’s Rights and Prenatal Protections under Human Rights and Comparative Law, Center for Reproductive Rights (2012)
• Human Rights-Based Approaches to Maternal Mortality Reduction Efforts, International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights (2010)
• Making the MDGs Work for All. Gender-Responsive Rights-Based Approaches to the MDGs, UNIFEM (2008)
• Preventing gender-biased sex selection. An interagency statement, OHCHR, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, WHO (2011)
• Gender Equality and Human Rights: ICPD as a Catalyst?, Gita Sen (2005)
• International Assistance and Cooperation in Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Human Rights Responsibility for Donors, Judith Bueno de Mesquita and Paul Hunt, Human Rights Center, University of Essex, December 2008
• Human Rights Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines: the Sexual and Reproductive Health Context, Rajat Khosla and Paul Hunt, Human Rights Center, University of Essex, 2008
• Conscientious Objection: Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights,
  Judith Bueno de Mesquita and Louise Finer, Human Rights Center, University of Essex
• Women and Migration, OEGF
• Anatomy of a Backlash: Sexuality and the ‘Cultural' War on Human Rights, Human Rights Watch

• Sex Work, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, CEEHRN 

• Preventing the Further Spread of HIV/AIDS: The Essential Role of Human Rights, Human Rights Watch
• A Rights-Based Approach to Maternal Mortality, International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights

 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

• Recommendations Towards a Gender Sensitive Response to AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria of the Global Fund, Civil Society Forum
• An Evolving Partnership: The Global Fund and Civil Society, The Global Fund

Violence Against Women

• State of World Population 2010: From Conflict and Crisis to Renewal: Generations of Change, UNFPA

Youth and SRHR Worldwide

• European Parliament briefing on sexuality education in the EU, EP, 2012

• “Young people’s health as a whole-of-society response”, WHO series
• HIV, Sex Education and Peer Education Programmes for Youth,  FHI/YouthNet

• Fact Sheets on Young People in Africa, Women Deliver Conference

• Fact Sheets on Young People in Asia, Women Deliver Conference

• Fact Sheets on Young People in Europe, Women Deliver Conference

• Fact Sheets on Young People in Latin America and the Caribbean,  Women Deliver Conference

• Fact Sheets on Young People in Middle East and North Africa, Women Deliver Conference

• Fact Sheets on Young People in North America,  Women Deliver Conference
• Adolescent Sexual Behaviour and Reproductive Outcomes in Central America: Trends Over the Past Two Decades, Guttmacher Institute
• Fact Sheet on the linkages between the MDGs and Young Women's Health, the Youth Coalition
• Fact Sheet on the linkages between the MDGs and Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Young People, the Youth Coalition
• Fact Sheet on the linkages between the MDGs, Young People and HIV, the Youth Coalition

Guide to European Population Assistance

Tips & Tricks on how to apply for the European Commission's Budget Lines for Sustainable Development

Tips & Tricks on how to apply for grants on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Tips & Tricks on how to apply for grants on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania

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