Dear COPASAH friends, associates and members,
Greetings from COPASAH Communication Hub!
In continuation of our venture of communicating, sharing, learning and innovating from practice based stories, we bring to you the 13th edition of the COPASAH Communiqué focusing on citizen initiatives of demanding accountability.The edition may be of interest to you as it presents varied experiences of practitioners from regions of South Asia, Central Europe, East Southern Africa and Latin America on demanding accountability. The edition is a combination of articles and video.
This edition forays into contexts like community initiatives of the marginalized Roma to increase access to health care in Bulgaria, citizens using community score cards for improving family planning services in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan). It showcases initiatives of rural community leaders to promote Citizen Vigilance, as a way of dealing with problems of access and quality of healthcare in Guatemala through a video, besides reflecting upon mutual initiatives of COPASAH-T/A Learn on learning about mobilizing accountability. It reflects peer learning and mutual exchange as strengthened through Facilitated Learning Exchange in Uganda and strengthening of grassroots practitioners capacities on Health System Accountability in India through distance learning, hand-holding and mentorship.
EVERYWOMAN EVERYWHERE - Her right to life free from violence
A project of the International Commission on Violence Against Women and Girls, the Everywoman Everywhere Coalition emerged from research at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights’ Initiative on Violence Against Women. The Everywoman Everywhere Coalition is a global group of more than 450 organizations, women's rights activists, scholars, and concerned citizens, from more than 90 countries, rallied around a singular belief in the right to a life free from all forms of violence for everywoman, everywhere.
http://everywomaneverywhere.org/
WE HAVE COME TOGETHER TO ADVANCE A SINGULAR GOAL: AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN & GIRLS WORLDWIDE.
A legal right to a life free from violence for everywoman, everywhere.
Despite growing global outcry of “no!” to violence against women and girls, laws in the majority of nations say “yes.” State prevention, protection, and justice continue to be discretionary, leaving billions of women and girls with little legal protection, attacks on her human rights easily brushed off with arguments of inevitability and cultural relativity. Yet, there is a powerful step nations of the world can take in saying “no”, once and for all. Join voices from around the world in demanding legal protection against violence for everywoman, everywhere.
Direct Link to Full 11-Page 2016 Publication:
http://www.egmontinstitute.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/EPB42.pdf
Africa Resolution on Measures to Protect and Promote the Work of Women Human Rights Defenders - ACHPR/Res. 336 (EXT.OS/XIX) 2016 - http://www.achpr.org/sessions/19th-eo/resolutions/336/
A landmark resolution adopted at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights calls on African States to ensure specific legal recognition and protection of women human rights defenders and end impunity for threats and attacks against them.
Direct Link to Full 83-Page African Commission on Human & People’s Rights Study Report:
http://www.ishr.ch/sites/default/files/article/files/achpr-whrd-report.pdf
CEE Bulletin on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
No 04 (152) 2016
Table of contents:
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Burning Issue
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Regional Updates
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Global Updates
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Youth
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Upcoming Events
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Publications
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Call for Action
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Member Profile - this month features Gender Alternatives Foundation from Bulgaria
http://www.astra.org.pl/pdf/bulletin/ASTRA_CEE_Bulletin_152.pdf
