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Each month we present one or more items of relevance to our work and our mission. Items presented in previous months can be
found on the "Archives" page of this website.
WHY THE U.N. NEEDS ANTHROPOLOGISTS Eva Friedlander's Column written for the November 2011 issue
of the NAPA Section of Anthropology News
When I mention my work at the UN, people are often impressed, although a blank expression belies confusion as to what
an anthropologist could possibly be doing there. Just how an anthropologist comes to play a role in a highly political and
bureaucratic environment seems for some hard to fathom. But, working intermittently with the UN in a variety of capacities
over the past quarter century has brought home just how important an arena it is for anthropologists to bring their expertise
and the pathways for making that possible....
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PRESENTATION TO SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY MEETINGS: "Programs
and Pollution," by Suzanne Hanchett
Click here to download the conference paper
Click here to download Powerpoint presentation
UNITED NATIONS FORMS NEW UNIT: UN WOMEN
The UN recently consolidated programs for gender equality under a new unit, UN Women, with Michelle Bachelet as
Executive Director. UN Women has established its priorities and set some 100-day goals.
Link to the UN Women website
Mary Ann Castle, "Abortion in the United States' bible belt: organizing for power and empowerment" - read the full article
ABSTRACT
Over the last 30 years, conservative power in the United States, financed and organized by Christian fundamentalist sects,
the Catholic Church, and conservative corporate and political leadership, has become more threatening and potentially destabilizing
of progressive democratic principles and practices. Powerful interlocking political, financial and social forces are arrayed
against women in many Southern and Western states. They are having destructive effects on women's ability to control their
fertility and maintain bodily integrity and health. Poor women and women of color are disproportionately affected by restrictions
on abortion services. Strategically developed interventions must be initiated and managed at every level in these localities.
It is urgent to coordinate and empower individuals, multiple organizations and communities to engender effective changes in
attitudes, norms, behavior and policies that will enable women to obtain reproductive health services, including abortion
care. This paper describes contextual factors that continue to decimate U.S. women's right to health and, then, describes
a community organizing-social action project in a number of US' states aimed at reversing the erosion of women's right to
have or not to have children.
Citation: Reproductive Health 2011, 8:1
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