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Photo Credits (top to bottom)
-Primary education project of the Bangladesh Federation of University
women
- Graphic Artwork by Brazilian artist Octavio Roth - Article 1 of the
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights - See Thirty
Articles (© Octavio Roth - (UN/DPI Photo)
- "Displaced Persons: Mother and Child in the Dafur Region of the
Sudans" (© Eskinder Debebe - UN/DPI Photo)
- From Aftershocks:
Art and Memoirs by Young People Growing Up after War and Terror, exhibit
of the United Nations Cyberschool Bus Project, ©
painting by Una Dorbrinic
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Women's Role in Disease Prevention (2007)
Tobacco and Health (1998)
Application
of Research in Human Genetics (1998)
Human
Cloning (1998)
Family
Planning (1995)
Ritual
Abuse (1995)
Foetal
Alcohol Syndrome (1995)
Health
Education (1995)
Adolescents
(1995)
Population
(1992)
HIV/AIDS
(1992)
Family
Planning (1992)
Safe
Motherhood (1992)
Family
Planning (1989)
Human
Fertilization (1989)
Demographic
Studies (1968)
Population
Growth (1965)
Women's Role in Disease Prevention
The 29th IFUW Conference resolves:
- to direct the IFUW Board of Officers to advocate through its Representatives to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that priority be given to programmes which develop women's knowledge of health and hygiene, and their capacity to influence behaviour in their families and communities;
- to recommend to national federations and associations (NFAs) that they advocate to their governments to fund programmes which will ensure that women and girls are comprehensively educated in all facets of health, hygiene and disease prevention; and
- to recommend to NFAs that they advocate to their governments to enact a legislative framework that protects women's autonomous control of their health.
Plan of Action
- I FUW to seek information from NFAs about existing programmes in their own countries, including those on education in fundamental principles and the practice of good hygiene, safe sex, safe preparation of food and drinking water, living quarters separate from animals, access to bed nets and, where possible, cessation of burning of dung.
- IFUW to circulate information on successful programmes.
- IFUW to invite qualified members to volunteer to be part of a study group in order to compare existing legislation across national jurisdictions with regard to all aspects of women's health. Results of the study to be circulated.
- NFAs to pay particular attention to, and widely disseminate, reports from IFUW's Representatives to UNESCO and to WHO, as published through IFUW networks.
Tobacco
and Health
- that NFAs be urged to campaign in their own countries for appropriate
legislation and regulations dealing with tobacco products and the dangers
of smoking.
- that NFAs urge all levels of governments to develop and implement strategies
to decrease use of tobacco products. (1998 No.13) See Plan of Action and Follow-up.
Application
of Research in Human Genetics
that IFUW encourage NFAs to make themselves aware of the advances in the
medical applications of present and future research in human genetics,
and work with other groups to ensure that their respective governments:
1. establish and fund adequately national committees to advise government
and medical professionals on the social and ethical issues associated
with the application of advances in genetic knowledge;
2. ensure that the public is informed and consulted about proposed practices
and regulations;
3. consider the cultural mores of the ethnic groups within their population
in formulating any regulations. (1998 No.12)
Human
Cloning
that NFAs campaign in their own countries for legislation to prohibit
clones of a whole person.(1998 No.11)
Family
Planning
that NFAs should
1) a) monitor the actions taken by their national governments with regard
to the implementation of the recommendations of the Programme of Action
of the UN International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo
1994, to make quality reproductive health services, including family planning
services, affordable, acceptable and accessible to all who need and want
them, and b) where the national follow-up is disappointing take steps
to achieve the human rights of women in respect of reproductive rights:
2) encourage their governments to bring about population trends consistent
with the achievement of the empowerment of women in the context of sustainable
patterns of economic growth. (1995 No. 15)
Ritual
Abuse
to encourage NFAs to urge their respective governments to:
1) include a definition of ritual abuse within appropriate legislation;
and
2) make ritual abuse practices indictable offences; to encourage members
of its NFAs to lobby their respective governments to ensure that the relevant
agencies provide protection, support and quality therapy for victims of
ritual abuse by establishing:
1) at universities and other institutions, accredited specialised programmes
for training counsellors and therapists dealing with problems of ritual
abuse;
2) interdisciplinary training for support workers, health professionals,
educators and the police, so that they are able to identify victims and
advise the appropriate agencies. (1995 No. 13)
Foetal
Alcohol Syndrome
that NFAs take appropriate action to:
1) encourage educational institutions to include instruction related to
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome within the curricula for educators and health
care professionals;
2) encourage educators and health care professionals to advise the general
population that alcohol consumption patterns of both men and women can
adversely affect foetal development;
3) advertise the inherent dangers of foetal alcohol syndrome in places
where alcohol is sold or consumed. (1995 No.
10)
Health
Education
that IFUW urge NFAs to lobby their governments to introduce comprehensive
compulsory health education courses at both primary and secondary levels
which are appropriate to the growth and developmental needs of children.
These courses should include information on the hazards of smoking, drugs,
alcohol, sexual risk taking, HIV, AIDS and other sexually transmitted
diseases. (1995 No. 8)
Adolescents
that NFAs in collaboration with other concerned organisations should undertake
activities to encourage governments to address the problems facing adolescents,
especially girls, and enhance the quality of their lives particularly
with regard to their education, employment and health.
Such activities should include:
- developing programmes to implement projects and campaigns to draw the
attention of teachers, parents and adolescents to problems which have
an adverse impact on girls such as early marriage, and teenage pregnancy,
and those which adversely affect both sexes, substance abuse, violence,
harmful practices, lack of opportunities for secondary education and employment;
- involving young people in the design and carrying out of such activities;
- networking with other NGOs to increase awareness of the problems faced
by adolescent girls. (1995 No. 1)
Population
that IFUW should send copies of the Amsterdam Declaration to NFAs and
independent members;
that IFUW pays attention to the work of UNFPA and urges its members to
promulgate appropriate information at the grass roots level;
that IFUW urges NFAs to study the underlying reasons for the fall in birth
rate over the last century and to work to accelerate this process. (1992
No. 15)
HIV/AIDS
that IFUW and NFAs advocate for appropriate measures in the public and
private sectors to prevent and cure HIV/AIDS, the world's fastest growing
health epidemic for women, as well as for programmes and funding to care
for AIDS sufferers. (1992 No. 14)
Family
Planning
that NFAs urge support for increased funding for UN specialised agencies
and additional bilateral assistance which support comprehensive family
planning and reproductive health care. (1992
No. 13)
Safe
Motherhood
to urge NFAs
1) to undertake activities to inform their members about the extent of
the problem of maternal mortality and measures for its reduction;
2) to collaborate with other NGOs to develop activities to promote practices
for safe motherhood;
3) to urge their governments to develop and implement programmes as part
of the safe motherhood initiative. (1992 No.
12)
Family
Planning
that IFUW urge NFAs to support UN funding and additional bilateral assistance
which support comprehensive family planning and reproductive health care.
(1989 No. 5)
Human
Fertilization
that NFAs be encouraged to campaign in their own countries for appropriate
legislation to regulate medical and scientific intervention in human fertilisation
and embryology. (1989 No. 4)
Demographic
Studies
that, in view of the continuing importance of understanding the implications
of the population crisis, NFAs be urged to keep themselves informed on
current demographic studies and to disseminate this information as widely
as possible in their communities. (1968 No. 3)
Population
Growth
that, in view of the impact of population growth on levels of living and
opportunities for education, and the effect of education and training
upon population growth, NFAs be urged
1) to study the questions related to population growth in their own countries,
and to take action as appropriate;
2) to further the general and social education programmes in their own
countries and to disseminate as widely as possible scientific demographic
information. (1965 No. 18)
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