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Resource Pointer #258

May 31, 2001

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate

publishers or organizations directly.

*Forging Our Future: Women in Agriculture, 2000* Pesticide Action Network

Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP). Discussion of issues for women in

agriculture, as evaluated in PAN AP Task Force on Women in Agriculture

meeting in April 1997. Explores impacts of increased export crop production

and industrialization of agriculture, international trade agreements and

World Bank/International Monetary Fund Structural Adjustments. Includes

papers on integrated pest management and farmers, impacts of globalization

on working women, indigenous communities and their right to land, and more.

97 pp. US$10. Contact PAN AP, P.O. Box 1170, 10850 Penang, Malaysia; phone

(604) 657-0271 and 656-0381; fax (604) 657-7445; email panap at panap.po.my;

Web site http://www.poptel.org.uk/panap/.

*Women's Equality: An Unfinished Agenda, 2000* Women's Environment and

Development Organization (WEDO). Assessment of U.S. government actions on

implementing the Beijing Platform for Action, a broad-based agenda for

promoting and protecting women's human rights and basic freedoms worldwide.

Includes discussion of poverty, education, health, violence against women,

armed conflict, economics, decision-making and more. 64 pp. Download free at

http://www.wedo.org or US$15 for hardcopy. Contact WEDO, 355 Lexington Ave.,

3rd floor, New York, NY 10017-6603; phone (212) 973-0325; fax (212)

973-0335; email wedo at igc.org; Web site http://www.wedo.org.

*Risks, Rights and Reforms: A 50-Country Survey Assessing Government Actions

Five Years After the International Conference on Population and Development,

1999* Bharati Sadasivam (editor), Women's Environment and Development

Organization (WEDO). Report shows that governments have partnered with

non-governmental organizations, the United Nations and international

agencies to advance reproductive and sexual health and rights. Includes

discussion of negative impacts of economic reforms on women's access to

basic and reproductive health services. Also includes discussion of damage

to women's reproductive systems caused by exposures to pesticides and other

chemicals. 251 pp. US$19.95. Contact WEDO, 355 Lexington Ave., 3rd floor,

New York, NY 10017-6603; phone (212) 973-0325; fax (212) 973-0335; email

wedo at igc.org; Web site http://www.wedo.org.

*Where Women Have No Doctor: A Health Guide for Women (Donde No Hay Doctor

Para Mujeres), 1997* A. August Burns, Ronnie Lovich, Jane Maxwell, Katherine

Shapiro. Provides information about a wide range of women's health problems,

using simple language and hundreds of pictures. Combines self-help medical

information with discussion of ways in which poverty, discrimination and

cultural beliefs limit women's health and access to health care. Developed

with community-based groups and medical experts from more than 30 countries.

Topics include sexual health; health concerns of women with disabilities,

girls, older women and refugees; pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding; and

more. Also available in Spanish. 583 pp. US$20. Contact the Hesperian

Foundation, 1919 Addison Street, Suite 304, Berkeley, CA 94704; phone (510)

845-1447; fax (510) 845-9141; email hesperian at hesperian.org; Web site

http://www.hesperian.org.

*Women Behind the Labels: Worker Testimonies from Central America, 2000*

Marion Traub-Werner. Interviews with Central American sweatshop workers

present stories behind clothing labels and food brands. Shows how women

organized unions for better working conditions, better wages, justice,

respect and better futures for themselves and their children. Features

testimony from eight women. 42 pp. US$5. In U.S. contact the Support Team

International for Textileras (STITCH), 4933 S. Dorchester, Chicago, IL

60615; phone (773) 924-2738; email hf52 at aol.com; Web site

http://www.stitchonline.org. Outside of U.S. contact Maquila Solidarity

Network, 606 Shaw St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6G 3L6; phone (416)

532-8584; fax (416) 532-7688; email info at maquilasolidarity.org; Web site

http://www.maquilasolidarity.org.

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