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Newsletter: “Parliamentary Dialogue”
Parliamentary Dialogue is a quarterly newsletter from the IAPG that promotes women’s human rights in the Americas. Published thanks to the generous support of the Latin America Division of UNFPA, this newsletter is an advocacy tool to disseminate information about laws and policies related to population and development at the regional level.

Latest issue of Parliamentary Dialogue (December 2003).

Past Issues:
Women’s Political Participation and Decision Making (Spanish Only- temporarily unavailable)
Beijing + 5 (Spanish Only-temporarily unavailable)
A World Fit for Children (1 mb)
Emergency Contraception (1 mb)
HIV/AIDS in Latin America (Spanish Only) (1 mb)
Special Edition: International Parliamentary Conference on the Implementation of the Program of Action of the ICPD (836 kb)

The Ottawa Commitment (104 kb)
The Ottawa Commitment document was adopted by consensus by 103 signatories, at the International Parliamentary Conference on the Implementation of the Program of Action of the ICPD. This document includes concrete actions that parliamentarians can take to mobilize resources and create an enabling environment for the implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action. This document suggests strengthening mechanisms to increase cooperation and alliances between parliamentarians at the regional and international level. (2002)

Legislative Module on HIV/AIDS (Spanish Only) (4.4 mb)
This publication was funded by the Central American Action Project against AIDS (PASCA). It offers a series of conceptual tools highlighting the fundamental rights that should be included in HIV/AIDS legislation as well as potential problems that may arise in the adoption and implementation of these laws. (2000)

Legislative Commitments on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Five Year Review of the Cairo and Beijing Conferences --Latin America and the Caribbean (temporarily unavailable)
This report was produced in conjunction with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Latin America Division. It presents a summary of the commitments made by governments at the Cairo and Beijing Conferences and a review of their implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean. (1999)

The UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child And Sexual And Reproductive Health and Rights -- A Young Person’s Guide (316 kb)
This leaflet highlights the links between the Convention on the Rights of the Child and sexual and reproductive rights in a friendly and easy to understand format especially designed for young people.

Legislative Module on Violence Against Women (Spanish only) (7.1 mb)
This publication compiles laws that specifically address the issue of violence against women and offers a series of conceptual tools highlighting the fundamental rights that should be included in the legislation. This material was produced to raise awareness on this issue among parliamentarians at the time when countries in the region were passing intra-family/domestic violence laws. (1997)

The International Forum of Parliamentarians on ICPD Review (1999) (2.8 mb)
This meeting took place on 4-6 February, 1999 at The Hague, Netherlands, with the participation of approximately 210 parliamentarians from 103 countries. (Spanish only)

The International Conference of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (1994) (2.4 mb)
This document reports the meeting that took place on 3-4 September, 1994 in Cairo, Egypt, parallel to the ICPD meeting.