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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times
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<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">marking the dates on your organisational calendar (13th September to 17th September, 2011)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">trying to organise your network meetings in a way that people can travel to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Brussels</st1:place></st1:city> without putting pressure on the local organisers to raise funds<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">putting the travel plan on your organisational activity and budget cycle for 2011<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">submitting abstracts to the organisers by January 31, 2011<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">informing others about the 11th IWHM and encouraging them to register as well<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The Organising Committee of the 10th IWHM [namely Sarojini N.B., Sabala, Renu Khanna, Padmini Swaminathan, Lakshmi Lingam, Amar Jesani, Philomena Vincent and Manisha Gupte] wishes the 11th IWHM all success !<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times
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<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#996699 size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“ </SPAN></FONT><STRONG><B><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#ff6600><SPAN>Women Health and Human Rights</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#ff6600><SPAN>.</SPAN></FONT><STRONG><B><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#996699><SPAN> Let us build the Future</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The meeting will be held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Brussels</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Belgium</st1:country-region></st1:place>, from 13th to 17th September 2011.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#996699><SPAN> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">The International Women Health meeting « IWHM » has been for more than 30 years, an international forum of women’s grass rooted organizations, academics, and advocates that promotes women’s health, sexual and reproductive rights.</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<LI class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To gather women from all over the world that are fighting for women’ health and enable them to share their knowledge and experience.</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To map out the world women’s health status, the risks, abuses and violence they face ; to give an overview of successes reached to change these situations and identify future actions that need to be undertaken .</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To analyze how similar implemented policies and applied medical techniques have different impact in various countries and how different decisions can have similar or negative results.</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To broaden and have insight debates on health indicators such as peace, social justice, work, environment, women empowerment, liberty and equal rights.</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI></UL>
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<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Political and social structures are often based on patriarchal, ancestral constructions that are endangering women’s health. Health should be considered as a fundamental human right.</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The cultures, transmission of habits, the transfer of knowledge may sometimes have negative impact on health and particularly on women health.</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Health is a vector of various representations and some of them are weakening women’s health. A feminist and global vision is necessary to improve women’s health; one of the means to achieve this is to promote “self-care”</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Enforcing community networks and their role as; agents groups for exchange of knowledge and services, women health organization, women’s action’s all over the world and the political decisions that can be then taken.</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Women as sole responsible of their right, in freedom and well informed, in full capacity of their civil right regardless of their marital, motherhood status.</SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">We invite you not only to come and participate but also to inform and mobilize any individual, any organization who might show interest in women health and human rights. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'">For more information contact us by email :<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><A href="http://us.mc1113.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rifs.iwhm@gmail.com" target=_blank moz-do-not-send="true">rifs.iwhm@gmail.com</A> </SPAN></FONT> <o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">For those wishing to submit an abstract, the deadline is set for January, 31th 2011.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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