This page provides a library of resources relevant to budget monitoring and maternal, reproductive, and sexual health.
The Review is basically a look at selected written and mostly published materials related to women, women’s rights, gender, and justice. It hopes to get a general glimpse of what has been said publicly about issues and concerns of justice and women’s perspectives, experiences, assessments, and recommendations in relation to the Philippine justice system (though largely pertaining to court processes and systems).
The type of materials for this Review includes books (materials with 50 pages or more), journals, and academic papers such as theses and dissertation papers (the only ones not published in the collection reviewed in this study), and pamphlets published by NGOs and government agencies. Most of the NGOs and alternative law groups’ publications on the subject matter were published from the 1990’s to the present, and the few years preceding that may already cover what one may loosely identify as relevant to the current concept of and engagement with the justice system.
The following are the special areas of interest in the document
review:
GENDER JUSTICE: construction of gender justice
WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES: experiences of Filipino women in
their contact and engagement with the justice system
FEMINIST CRITIQUE: criticisms and counter-proposals by
feminists and women’s advocacy groups on the Philippine
justice system
COOPERATION for GENDER JUSTICE: dialogues and
breakthroughs for gender justice
ASSESSMENT/DEVELOPMENTS and RECOMMENDATIONS:
by feminists and women’s groups on the justice system in the
Philippines
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is advancing its activities around the pillars of a field-oriented approach, human security, and enhanced effectiveness, efficiency, and speed.
https://www.jica.go.jp/publication/pamph/issues/ku57pq00002izuvf-att/legislation_support_2013_en.pdf
https://www.jica.go.jp/english/publications/j-world/1701.html
The International Land Coalition frequently receives requests of solidarity from members in Africa, Asia and Latin America for or on behalf of Human Rights Defenders working on land rights, especially activists. This infonote is meant to support their invaluable work with information on international protection mechanisms and organizations addressing human rights violations related to land. The guide is also available in French and Spanish by visiting http://www.landcoalition.org/publications/international-mechanisms-protecting-human-rights-defenders-risk-their-work-land-rights
This INTERIGHTS Bulletin (Volume 17, Number 3, Autumn 2013) is titled “Lawyering on the Margins.”
Of particular interest are the editorial “Lawyering on the Margins: How Lawyers Are Becoming Important Tools for Advancing Health and Human Rights of the Most Marginalized” by David Scamell, Tatyana Margolin and Constantin Cojocariu (page 106) and the article “Piece by Piece: The Approach of Sex Work Litigation in South Africa” by David Scamell, Stacey-Leigh Manoek and Jennifer Williams (page 143).
This is a 4-page informational resource on the basics of community paralegals, including an introductory description of what community paralegals are, how they work, and advantages of the community paralegal approach. This is followed by 3 brief case studies of community paralegals at work in Sierra Leone, Kenya and Indonesia.
Bangladesh is stoking an emerging AIDS epidemic with violent police abuse of sex workers, injection drug users and men who have sex with men. In this 51-page report, Human Rights Watch documents rapes, gang-rapes, beatings and abductions by both police officers and powerful criminals known as mastans. Their targets — sex workers, men who have sex with men and injection drug users — are both at high risk of HIV infection and the people most capable of bringing AIDS information and services to their peers. In a direct blow to the fight against AIDS, some of the abuses are committed against AIDS outreach workers. In one region of Bangladesh, HIV prevalence among injection drug users jumped from 1.7 percent in 2001 to 4 percent in 2002. While HIV prevalence in the population overall is reportedly still low, the country’s poverty, gender inequality, and proximity to raging epidemics in India and Southeast Asia point to the possibility of an AIDS explosion. Human Rights Watch urged Bangladesh to institute civilian review of police officers, to prosecute police and mastans who perpetrate abuses, to bring its criminal procedures in line with international standards, and to support peer-driven AIDS prevention services among persons at high risk of HIV.