We have been in diverse association with progressive health and feminist organisations and networks at the Global, National, and Regional levels initiating dialogues and building up interlinkages while working on issues related to women, health and rights.
IWHM
The International Women and Health Meet (IWHM) includes wide range of organisations, networks and grassroots women’s groups. It has its roots in the global women’s movement, which marks nearly two and a half decades of the global feminist solidarity on issues that impinge on health and well being of women. Over the years IWHM has been calling for resistance against politics and policies that are detrimental to women’s health. It has been fostering debates on a wide variety of issues pertaining to women and health and have been instrumental in initiating the movement into a political force to ensure women’s health.
National Bioethics Congress
The National Bioethics Conferences (NBC), organized by the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME), have been instrumental in providing a platform and in mobilizing wider participation in the bioethics arena. The Conferences have been important platforms for discussing and initiating deliberations on the issue of bioethics, inviting participation from medical experts, ethics experts, students, researchers, media people, policy makers among others. Further, in addition to building a movement around bioethics, the Conferences have also become significant advocacy instrument in taking forward these aspects.
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14th World Congress for Bioethics
Sama – Resource Group for Women and Health co-organised the 14th World Congress of Bioethics, held in Bangalore between 5th-7th December 2018, along with the Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES), and St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences and Society for Community Health Awareness Research and Action (SOCHARA). The theme of the Congress was Health for All in an Unequal World: Obligations of Global Bioethics. The venue of the Congress was St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore.
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