Project Description

The first International Women and Health Meeting (IWHM) was organized nearly thirty years ago in 1975. Since then, the Meeting held every three years has continued to provide women's health advocates a forum to develop and shape the international women's health agenda from the ground up. The 10th IWHM will be held in New Delhi from September 21 to 25, 2005.

The IWHM seeks to strengthen and create national and international links among organizations, networks and movements in order to highlight and build a consensus around women's health issues. The 10th Women and Health Meeting (IWHM), it is being hoped, will mark nearly two and a half decades of global feminist dialogues on issues that impinge on the health and well-being of women.

The 10th International Women and Health Meeting will be organized around some of the themes which have echoed in the international conferences in the last decade and a half.  These themes include
1. Public Health, Health Sector Reforms and Gender
2. Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights
3. The Politics of Population Policies
4. Women's Rights and Health Care Technologies
5. Violence and Women's Health

Discussions around these sub-themes, it is hoped, will enable the 10th IWHM to work towards the goal of arriving at a statement on women's health, that emerges from the lived experiences of women and men and that provides directions for future research, activism, struggles and advocacy.