af014846: Vote for her life
"Affiche uitgegeven in 2004 door het United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) voor vrouwenrechten. Afbeelding: close-up van een jonge vrouw. Tekst recto: vote for her life. Whether they represent the richest or the poorest populations of the world, parliamentarians have the power to vote – to ado...
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| Institution: | Amsab-Institute of Social History |
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10796/392D5314-60AF-4A6C-9BD3-9A026DC3D93C |
| Summary: | "Affiche uitgegeven in 2004 door het United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) voor vrouwenrechten. Afbeelding: close-up van een jonge vrouw. Tekst recto: vote for her life. Whether they represent the richest or the poorest populations of the world, parliamentarians have the power to vote – to adopt laws and policies that can make a world of difference in the life of a woman. Vote so that she can receive an education and have the same opportunities as her brothers. Vote for her rights so that she can become an active member of a family and society that are free of violence and discrimination. Vote for the information and services that would allow her and her partner to prevent HIV infection and unwanted pregnancies. Vote for reproductive health so that she will not be among the 530.000 women who die in childbirth every year. Vote for her life… because life or death is a political decision. UNFPA, IPCP, ICPD www.unfpa.org. Concept and design: Real Design Associates/NY www.real-design.net. Tekst verso: STRASBOURG STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT. We Parliamentarians from all over the world gather in Strasbourg, France, on 18-19 October 2004 to reaffirm and deepen the commitment we made in Ottawa, Canada, in November 2002, to mobilize the resources and create the enabling policy environment needed to meet the goals of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). We further reaffirm our commitment to sustainable development and its three pillars of economic growth, social progress and environmental protection. We affirm that the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action and the key actions of its five-year review are essential in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We therefore fully agree with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that “The Millennium Development Goals, particularly the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, cannot be achieved if questions of population and reproductive health are not squarely addressed. And that means stronger efforts to promote women’s rights, and greater investment in education and health, including reproductive health and family planning. “We accept our duty and responsibility to promote and defend the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all individuals, including their right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children; to defend and advance gender equality, gender equity and women’s empowerment; and to eliminate all forms of discrimination, coercion and violence against women. We recognize that the decision to defend these principles is the difference between a life with hope and opportunity and a life of despair and desperation and, worse, the difference between life and death itself. We therefore accept our duty and responsibility to protect and advance these principles to full implementation by 2015. CALL TO ACTION. We Parliamentarians commit ourselves to the following actions and call on Parliamentarians everywhere to also commit themselves to these actions: 1. Strive to commit the United Nations to establish in 2005, on the occasion of the five-year review of the Millennium Declaration, a ninth Millennium Development Goal, based on the ICPD Programme of Action, to make sexual and reproductive health accessible to all by 2015. 2. Strive to fulfil the agreed target of 0,7 percent of GNP for official development assistance (ODA) and make every effort to mobilize the agreed financial resources needed to implement the ICPD Programme of Action. 3. Strive to attain at least 10 percent of national development budgets and development assistance budgets for population and reproductive health programmes. 4. Give highest priority in national budgets, sector-wide approaches, and poverty-reduction strategies to expanding access to comprehensive reproductive health services and commodities and ensure that population and reproductive health are prominently reflected in both the preparatory discussions leading up to the five-year review of the Millennium Declaration as well as in the targets and indicators of the MDGs. 5. Give high priority to efforts to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity and unsafe abortion in line with WHO guidelines contained in Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems (2003), both as a public health issue and as a sexual and reproductive rights concern. 6. Strengthen safe motherhood services including the provision of maternal nutrition and antenatal care, the presence of skilled attendants during childbirth and the availability of emergency obstetric care. 7. Take immediate action to remedy the acute lack of qualified staff in many countries due to insufficient training, deaths from HIV/AIDS and loss of staff to developed countries. 8. Give the highest priority to encouraging partnership between the private sector, NGOs and government in producing and providing affordable reproductive health commodities and supplies, especially for family planning and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.9. Give high priority to encouraging partnership with religious groups in the fight against HIV/AIDS at the prevention stage by holding a dialogue with them. 10.Mobilize the necessary additional resources to fund the unmet needs in commodities in UNFPA and IPPF-supported programmes to at least $150 million a year and develop a road map to ensure sustainable financing, recognizing the human and economic costs of failing to do so. 11. Strengthen family planning services to enable women to postpone, space and limit pregnancies as they choose. 12. Promote men’s understanding of their roles and responsibilities with regard to reproductive health and the reproductive rights of men and women, supporting their partners’ as well as their own access to reproductive health care, including family planning services, helping to prevent unwanted pregnancy and reducing the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS. 13. Ensure that users of sexual and reproductive health programmes, including young people and people living with HIV/AIDS, are fully involved in programme development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. 14. Mobilize support for women prior to, during and after pregnancy and childbirth through public health education campaigns and strengthened policy, legislative and regulatory frameworks to promote and protect maternal health.15. Scale up and expand HIV/AIDS prevention activities and ensure that they are integrated into comprehensive sexual and reproductive health programmes. 16. Promote coordinated and coherent responses to HIV/AIDS that build on the principles of one national AIDS framework, one broad-based multisectoral HIV/AIDS coordinating body, and one agreed country-level monitoring and evaluation system, and promote the maximum possible integration with other relevant sexual and reproductive health services. 17. Urge governments to give priority to and increase resources for research on vaccines and microbicides. 18. Enact and enforce legislation to ensure respect for the human rights, especially sexual and reproductive rights, and dignity of AIDS orphans and people living with HIV/AIDS as well as other vulnerable groups. 19. Enact and enforce laws and policies that promote and protect the human rights of the girl child and young women and ensure women’s equal access to education and health, particularly sexual and reproductive health, and their full participation in economic opportunities and decision making at all levels. 20. Implement fully international humanitarian and human rights law protecting the rights of women and girls, migrants and refugees during and after conflicts and hold accountable to the fullest extent of the law those who engage in sexual violence, exploitation, trafficking and other crimes. 21. Ensure that reproductive health services are provided as an integral part of humanitarian response and post-conflict transition. 22. Enact and enforce laws making domestic and sexual violence against women and girls, including harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation, a punishable offense (sic) and give high priority to involving all sectors of society, including political, religious and cultural leaders, in campaigns to end to such practices. 23. Intensify efforts to provide wider access to youth-friendly reproductive health information and services, including to married adolescents and those not in school, and provide training and life skills education to adolescents, in particular boys and young men, to promote the rights of women and girls. 24. Promote and protect the rights of adolescents, including their right to reproductive health information and services; strictly enforce laws on age at marriage; and seek to eliminate disparities in how boys and girls are treated and valued within families and by society. 25. Recognize that access to clean water is a fundamental human right, and give high priority in national development and poverty-reduction strategies to raising water productivity and conservation, including the shift to water-efficient crops and technologies; and to initiating water-pollution control programmes. 26. Improve access to agricultural and productive resources, including land, water and credit, particularly for women, and promote equitable and efficient distribution systems and sustainable development. 27. Protect the reproductive health status of women, men and children from the effects of the spraying of agricultural crops. 28. Promote and protect the economic, social and political rights of older people and empower them to fully and effectively engage in the economic, political and social lives of their societies. LIST OF SIGNATORIES. Albania Valentina Leskaj, MP; Algeria Benbrahman Noureddine, MP; Argentina Aldo Carlos Neri, MP; Armenia Vazgen Khachikyan, MP; Australia Lynnete Faye Allison, MP; Austria Elisabeth Hlavac, MP; Austria Karl Öllinger, MP; Azerbajan Malahat Hasanova, MP; Bangladesh Raushan Ershad, MP; Barbados Billie Miller, MP Senior Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade; Belgium Inga Verhaert, MP; Belize Rodwell Stephen Ferguson, MP Deputy Minister for Planning; Benin Madelaine Achade, MP; Benin Leon Bio Bigou, MP; Benin Kolawolé A. Idji, MP Speaker of the National Assembly; Benin Timothee Zannou, MP; Bolivia René Jaldin, MP; Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Zivkovic, MP; Brazil Nilcea Freire, MP Minister of Women’s Affairs; Brazil Alice Mazzuco Portugal, MP; Burkina Faso Cecile Beloum, MP; Burkina Faso Mamadou Christophe Ouattara, MP; Burundi Pascasie Nkrnahamira, MP; Cambodia Im Run, MP; Cambodia Princess Sisowath Santha, MP; Cameroon Angeline Evina Ndo Engolo, MP; Canada Senator Raynell Andreychuk; Canada Senator Maria Chaput; Canada Senator Madeleine Plamondon; Cape Verde Jean Emmanuel Da Cruz, MP; Central African Rep. Marguerite Petro-Koni-Zeze Zarambaud, MP; Chad Ali Issa Abbas, MP; Chad Nassour Guelendouksia Ouaidou, MO Speaker of the National Assembly; Chile Enrique Accorsi Opazo, MP; Congo Onsuene Seraphin, MP; Denmark Sophie Hæstorp Andersen, MP; Dominican Republic José Tomás Pérez Vasquez, MP; Ecuador Myrian Garcés Dávila, MP; Egypt Talaat Abdel-Kawi, MP; Egypt Mohamed Awad Tag El Din, MP Minister For Health And Population; Egypt Hamdy Hahmoud El-Sayed, MP; European Parliament Anne Van Lancker, MEP; Fiji Marieta Rigamoto, MP Assistant Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office; Finland Irina Krohn, MP; France Danielle Bousquet, MP; France Catherine Genisson, MP; France Claude Greffe, MP; France Marie-Jo Zimmermann, MP; Gabon Albertine Maganga Moussavou, MP; Georgia George Tseretelli, MP; Germany Erika Ober, MP; Ghana Al Haji Abdullah Salifu, MP; Guinea Ahmed Tidjani Cisse, MP; Iceland Gudrun Ogmundsdottir, MP; India Vallabhbhai Katharia, MP; Iran Ahmad Khas Ahmadi, MP; Ireland Damien English, MP; Ireland Senator Mary Henry; Japan Yoshio Yatsu, MP; Jordan Senator Zaid Zuraikat; Kazakhstan Beksultan S. Tutkushev, MP; Kenya James Omingo Magara, MP; Kenya Charity K. Ngilu, MP Minister For Health; Latvia Sarmite Kikuste, MP; Lebanon Senator Nazem El Khoury; Lithuania Birute Vesaite, MP; Luxembourg Marcel Glesener, MP; Malaysia Loh Seng Kok, MP; Mauritania Selme Mint Teguedi, MP; Mexico Martha Lucía Mícher Camarena, MP; Morocco Fatima Leili, MP; Netherlands Agnes Van Ardenne, MP Minister for Development Cooperation; Netherlands Varina Tjon-A-Ten, MP; New Zealand Steve Chadwick, MP; Nicaragua Emilia del Carmen Torres De Mendez, MP; Niger Allamnaye Maidagi, MP; Pakistan Senator Noor Jehan Panezai; Panama Hermisenda Perea, MP; Paraguay Rosa Esperanza Merlo Drews, MP; Peru Víctor Eduardo Velarde Arrunátegui, MP; Philippines Corazon Nerissa Soon-Ruiz, MP; Poland Senator Zdzislawa Janowska; Poland Senator Wieslawa Sadowska; Portugal Ana Manso, MP; Romania Ilie Ilascu, MP; Romania Virgil Popa, MP; Russian Federation Nikolay Gerasimenko, MP; Russian Federation Svetlana Smirnova, MP; Rwanda Jean Baptiste Butare, MP; Sao Tome and Principe Maria Dos Santos Tebus Torres, MP; Senegal Famara Sarr, MP; South Africa Ebrahim Saloojee, MP; Spain Clemencia Torrado Rey, MP; Spain Gonzalo Robles Orozco, MP; Sudan Helen Olair, MP; Sweden Carina Hägg, MP; Sweden Annika Söder, MP State Secretary for Development Cooperation; Sweden Cecilia Wikstrom, MP; Switzerland Gerard H. Müller Behrens, MP; Switzerland John Dupraz, MP; Switzerland Ruth Genner, MP; Switzerland Liliane Maury Pasquier, MP; Tanzania Monica Ngenzi Mbega, MP; Thailand Senator A.C.M. Khan Surakul; Turkey Mehmet Ceylan, MP; Turkey Gaye Erbatur, MP; U.K. Terry David, MP Secretary General, Council of Europe; U.K. Bill Etherington, MP; U.K. Baroness Shreela Flather, MP; U.K. Paul Flynn, MP; U.K. Michael Hancock, MP; U.K. Christine McCafferty, MP; U.K. Gareth Thomas, MP Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development; U.K. John Wilkinson, MP; U.K. Tony Worthington, MP; Uruguay Maria Margarita Percovich Aldabe, MP; Venezuela Adolfo Taylhardat, MP; Viet Nam Nguyen Thuy Anh, MP; Viet Nam Nguyen Thi Hoai Thu, MP. PLEDGE. We Parliamentarians pledge to carry out these actions and to systematically and actively monitor the progress we make in doing so. We further pledge to report regularly on this progress through parliamentary groups and to meet again in two years to assess the results we have made. We further pledge to promote and protect the full enjoyment of fundamental human rights and freedoms of all individuals, in particular, sexual and reproductive rights. UNFPA, IPCI, ICPD 2004 International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT AMSAB-ISH" |
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| Physical Description: | papier geheel: hoogte, 38 cm geheel: breedte, 26 cm affiche |