Publisher: Australian Women’s Health Network, 2002 Status – CURRENT The Australian Women’s Health Network recognises that there is controversy about whether induced abortion increases the risk of breast cancer but that the best available evidence indicates that induced abortion does not increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer later in life.
Publisher: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Status – CURRENT The aim of the Beijing Declaration is to “advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity”. The website includes all documents, agendas, statements and other information relevant to the 5, 10 and […]
Publisher: United Nations, September 2000 Status – CURRENT The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The MDGs, erived from this, comprise eight goals that all 191 UN Member States have agreed to achieve by the year 2015
Publisher: Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health, 1999 Status – Current The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (now known as the Women’s Health Australia Project (WHA)) commenced in June 1995 as a result of initiatives arising from the National Women’s Health Policy. The project has two components: large scale surveys of three ‘main’ cohorts of women […]
Publisher: United Nations. Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995 Status – CURRENT The Platform for Action is an agenda for women’s empowerment. It aims at … removing all the obstacles to women’s active participation in all spheres of public and private life through a full and equalshare in economic, social, cultural and political decision-making. This means […]
Published: Australian Women’s Health Network, 1989
Status – NOT CURRENT
Publisher: UN General Assembly, 1979 Status – CURRENT The Convention provides the basis for realizing equality between women and men through ensuring women’s equal access to, and equal opportunities in, political and public life — including the right to vote and to stand for election — as well as education, health and employment. States parties agree to […]