Health Indicators

• PAHO gender differences in health and development in 48 countries in the Americas, focusing on women's reproductive health, acces to key health services and major causes of death

• PAHO Country Health Profiles.

• UNDP Human Development Reports.

• UNFPA Population and Reproductive Health Country Profiles

• UNFPA State of the World Population Report 2009

• UN Statistics Division

• WHO Health Indicators per country

• WHO World Statistical Information System

• WORLD BANK GenderStats; gender statistics and indicators

• The United Nations Population Fund

• The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Organizations

• IPAS (protecting women's health; advancing women's reproductive rights)

• The Center for Reproductive Rights

• The International Women's Health Coalition

• Population Action International

• The International Planned Parenthood Federation

• The Guttman Institute

Consensus Documents

• Beijing +5 and the Beijing Platform for Action

• Declaration of Alma Ata (1978)

• Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS ' Global Crisis-Global Action'

• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993)

• Declaration on the Right to Development (Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action) (1993)

• Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons (1975)

• ICPD Programme of Action (Cairo Programme of Acrion) Report of the International Conference on Population and Development (1994)

• Maastricht Guidelines on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Maastricht, January 1997

• Millennium Declaration (MDGs) (2000)

• People's Charter for Health

• Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care (1991)

Resources on Treaties

• Human Rights Library of the University of Minnesota

• Women's Human Rights Net provides information about women's human rights throughout the world. Also available in French and Spanish.

Other Douments of Interest

• OHCHR, Draft Guidelines: a Human Rights Approach to Poverty reduction Strategies 2002, CESCR

• WHO: 25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights, WHO Health and Human Rights Publications Series

• Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women: Cultural Practices in the Family That Are Violent towards Women, Report of the Special Rapporteur, January 2002