This article is an examination of the pressures women are under to conform to an unattainable standard of beauty and the double impact this has on women with disabilities.
This article offers an in-depth look at breast cancer statistics and an analysis of the current struggle against it. Shares information about breast cancer research, available resources, fighting misconceptions and ongoing activism.
This article explores stories of women fighting for the environment in India; the nonviolent ecological movement in Uttar Pradesh, the great Bhopal tragedy and the 34 year fisherfolk agitation witnessed in the state of Kerala. Connections made between women, poverty and victims of environmental destruction.
This article discuses prostitution in the Philippines and how AIDS became an epidemic. Explains the role that poverty and tourism play in the sex industry. Prostitution as big business. How women are organizing themselves for support and access to health information.
This article consists of an interview with one of the founders of the Toronto's Immigrant Women's Centre about the black women's health conference "'I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired."
A new tool for anyone starting from scratch to develop a public involvement project. Designed to be a self-managed reference tool with Web links to most of the sources cited. The guide offers an overview of the theory of public involvement and includes some practical examples.It includes a glossary, some insight into the latest trends and instruction on how to apply public involvement methods to a specific purpose.
Highlights the practices of unions and political parties in both Canada and Sweden and the effect that women's organizing has had on the framing and implementing of public policy.
Provides an interactive CD-ROM and users' guide, designed pirmarily for people working in the non-profit sector. Demonstrates how to produce reports, memos, e-mails or letters, as well as scientific papers and documents to help campaign or persuade.
Examines central issues raised by women's organizations during the 2002 pan-Canadian online consultation with women and women's equality organizations and the 2003 international discussions on Women and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
