Every day, thousands of women die from pregnancy and childbirth in Asia and the Pacific. 75% of these deaths are from complications directly associated with the process of pregnancy and childbirth, i.e. direct maternal death, such as from bleeding, hypertension-with-convulsion, infection, and unsafe abortion. The rest are from the aggravation of the maternal state by […]

Labaw sa usa ka bilyon ka kabatanonan nga nag-edad 10-24 ang nagpuyo sa Asya-Pasipiko. Apan nihit, wala maglarawan ug dili hingpit ang mga kasayuran mahitungod sa mga panghitabo sa aborsyon o ang pagpakuha sa bata sa sabakan ilabi na ang kabahin sa kababayen-an nga dili minyo. Ginamit ang mga nasudnon/tipik sa nasudnong mga kasayuran, gibana-bana […]

This publication is the result of an extraordinary commitment on the part of the women, men and young people who participated in an innovative experiment that used partnership as a strategy to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Indonesia. Inspired by the idea behind the project, the initiative was kindly supported by […]

The Asia-Pacific is home to over a billion people between the ages of 10-24 but data on the incidence of induced abortion among this group are sparse, unrepresentative and incomplete, especially with respect to unmarried women. Estimates in Asia using national/subnational data range from 1-15% of all abortions; micro studies indicate much higher proportions. On […]

Tahanan ang Asia-Pacific ng higit isang bilyong tao na edad 10–24, pero ang datos sa grupong ito sa sinad yang aborsyon ay madalang, di-kumakatawan sa lahat at dikumpleto, lalo na sa mga dalaga. Sa Asia, mula sa kabataan ang 1–15% ng lahat ng aborsyon. Ito ang tantya gamit ang mga datos ng buo o bahagi […]

For a pandemic that thrives in poverty and enhances poverty, nothing could be more awash in money than HIV/AIDS. Even though the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has not yet met its goal of raising US$10 billion, there is still US$7 billion more than there was in 2001 when the Fund was just […]

Imagine a world in which the laws and policies of every country allowed women to fully enjoy their reproductive rights. While this is still a distant goal, a confluence of factors has enabled women’s health and rights advocates to bring it into focus. The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the 1995 […]

ARROW marked the year 2005 with a number of firsts for the organisation: 1. In January, ARROW saw the transition from the co- founder and Executive Director of ARROW, Rashidah Abdullah, to the new in-coming Executive Director, Saira Shameem; 2. ARROW published and launched two critical publications this year – Monitoring Ten Years of ICPD […]

In 2009, the women’s movement will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the 15th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD); yet, in all these years, the multifarious forms of gender-based violence across the globe have […]

Gender-based violence was a part of the everyday reality of many of the women from Rural Women’s Social Education Centre (RUWSEC), Chengalpattu, in Tamil Nadu, South India. While we encountered many forms of gender-based violence, including sexual assault and violence on young women who transgressed accepted norms of sexual conduct, spousal violence was by far […]