wow04 - Letter to Google concerning Restricting Advertisements that Promote Abortion Services http://www.womenonwaves.org/set-2015-en.html en Copyright 2009 wow04 2009-11-21T06:59:49+01:00 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:59:49 +0100 http://feedvalidator.org/docs/rss2.html 60 Mediamatic anyMeta RSS Generator 3.4.2 6f68cf8b-b8fc-102c-ad81-0014385010dc b39f5dbc-b90c-102c-ad81-0014385010dc google abortion policy http://www.womenonwaves.org/attachment-2016-en.html ]]> http://www.womenonwaves.org/attachment-2016-en.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:31:03 +0200 2009-07-03T12:30:25+02:00 b39f5dbc-b90c-102c-ad81-0014385010dc eaa02faf-bcda-102c-ad81-0014385010dc Logo http://www.womenonwaves.org/attachment-2020-en.html ]]> http://www.womenonwaves.org/attachment-2020-en.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:44:07 +0200 2009-07-08T08:44:07+02:00 eaa02faf-bcda-102c-ad81-0014385010dc 867cd0ff-bcda-102c-ad81-0014385010dc PDF letter Google http://www.womenonwaves.org/attachment-2019-en.html ]]> http://www.womenonwaves.org/attachment-2019-en.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:37:23 +0200 2009-07-08T08:41:19+02:00 867cd0ff-bcda-102c-ad81-0014385010dc c5b6bd37-b90e-102c-ad81-0014385010dc References http://www.womenonwaves.org/article-2018-en.html
  • 1.Email Communication from The Google AdWords Team to Women on Waves (September 17, 2008) (on file).
  • 2 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Dec. 16, 1966, 993 U.N.T.S. 3, (entered into force Jan. 3, 1976).
  • 3 World Health Organization (WHO). Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of the incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2003. 5 (Geneva: WHO, 2007); David A. Grimes et al. “Unsafe abortion: the preventable pandemic” (2006) 368 Lancet 1908-19, 1910.
  • 4 Susheela Singh. “Hospital admissions resulting from unsafe abortion: estimates from 13 developing countries” (2006) 368 Lancet 1887-92, 1890.
  • 5 WHO. Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems. 82 (Geneva: WHO, 2003). See Concluding Observations of U.N. bodies that monitor compliance with international human rights conventions, e.g. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Colombia, CEDAW, UN Doc. CEDAW/C/COL/CO/6 (2007): While noting the decriminalization of abortion under certain conditions, the Committee remained “concerned that, in practice, women may not have access to legal abortion services” (para. 22); Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Saint Lucia, CEDAW, UN GAOR, * * 61st sess., supp. no. 38 (A/61/38) part II (2006) 114: While welcoming legal reform that permits abortion under certain circumstances, “[t]he Committee notes with concern the persistence of unsafe abortions in the country. It also notes with concern that no information was provided about measures to provide safe abortion services where those are permitted by law” (paras. 154, 181).

    • 6 U.N. Comm. on Econ., Soc. and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 14. The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health, UN doc E/C.12/2000/4 at para. 12 (Aug. 11, 2000).

    • 7 U.N. Comm. on the E...
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    Argentina

    Mabel Bianco, Foundation for Studies and Research on Women (FEIM), Argentina

    María Alicia Gutiérrez, Foro por los Derechos Reproductivos, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Mariana Romero, Associate researcher, CEDES-CONICET, Argentina

    Silvina Ramos, Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of State and Society (CEDES), Argentina

    Australia

    Jenny Goldie, Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, Australia

    Lesie Cannold, Reproductive Choice, Australia

    Pamela Doherty, Community Educator, Children by Choice, Windsor, Australia

    Geoffrey Heaviside, International Centre for Health Equity, Victoria, Australia.

    Reproductive Choice, Australia

    Jo Wainer, Director, Gender and Medicine Research Unit, Monash Institute of Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia

    Bangladesh

    Kishwar Azad, Project Director, Perinatal Care Project, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Belgium

    Carine Vrancken, Bourgognecentrum, Hasselt, Belgium

    Brazil

    Leila Adesse, Director, Ipas Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Cambodia

    Sinead Rowan, Reduction in Maternal Mortality Options Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

    +++Canada

    Joyce Arthur, Coordinator, Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, Canada

    Catherine Jenkins, Solidus Communications, Canada

    Adam Busch, Harm Reduction Coordinator, Gay Youth & Men ACT, AIDS Committee of Toronto, Canada

    Colombia

    Cristina Villarreal, Fundacion Orientame, Colombia

    Agustin Gonzalez Rodriguez, medical director, ESAR, Columbia

    Costa Rica

    Soledad diaz pasten, Costa Rica

    Adriana Maroto Vargas, Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir and The Collective Association for Women´s Right to Choose, Costa Rica

    Egypt

    Soha Abdelaty, Egyptian Initiative for Personal R...

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