Equal rights, equal opportunities: progress for all
International Women's Day - 8 March 2010
WHO World Health organization WHO
Website: http://www.who.int/gender/events/2010/iwd/en/index.html
The theme for International Women's Day this year: "Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all" re-emphasizes that equal rights and opportunities lead to improved health outcomes for women and girls.
Gender-based discrimination is irrevocably connected to negative health outcomes for women and girls. Its associated poor health outcomes are often compounded by other forms of inequality related to socioeconomic status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or geographical location
While these challenges are imposing, and often encoded in "normalized" ways of living, International Women's Day renews our commitment to denounce violations in human rights and to challenge unequal systems, structures and practices that perpetuate health inequalities across the world.
Gender equality is good for health.
Introduction
Section 1: The health of women and girls needs legal and political actions
Section 2: Gender-based discrimination limits the attainment of international health and development goals
Section 3: Health inequalities are the result of systemic failures to realize the right to health for all
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
and the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM)
Celebration of International Women’s Day,
12 March 2010, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Room A,
PAHO/WHO Headquarters located at
This year’s theme will be Gender Equality in Health: A Right for Adolescents, featuring three winning Best Practices on gender and adolescent’s health from the
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, Director of PAHO/WHO, will introduce and award the three best practices selected from over 71 submissions to a regional contest.
You can learn more about this event at: www.paho.org/geh/internationalwomensday2010
The event will be available through webcast at http://www.paho.org/webcast 12 March 2010, from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm WDC Time
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