Come to the 12th International Women and Health Meeting!

The International Women and Health Meeting (IWHM) is an international forum for women’s grassroots organizations, academics, and advocates promoting women’s health, sexual and reproductive rights.The 12th meeting organised by Colectiva Mujer y Salud with the support of the International and local organising committees will take place from October 20 to 23, 2015 in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic and will mark the 40 years of the event.

The 1st IWHM held in Rome, Italy in 1974 brought together women from across Europe to discuss abortion rights issues. Since then there have been 11 IWHM, the most recent one in Brussels, Belgium in 2011. The recurring themes of these meetings are: sexual and reproductive rights, abortion, violence against women and planned parenthood. Other issues have also been addresses, such as: women and mental health, racism, poverty, gender, class and ethnicity, women’s health and development, public health and gender, among others.

The 12th meeting will be a space for women and organisations fighting for the rights and status of women to discuss, analyse, share and reflect on strategies to improve the health of women worldwide. The IWHM is based on two fundamental principles: equality as a prerequisite to the full enjoyment of health and distributive justice for women in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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