Instituto de Genero, Derecho y Desarrollo

• Research Project
• Investigators: Mariana García Jurado, Analía Aucía and Susana Arminchiardi
• Supervised by: Susana Chiarotti
• Objective: the sensitization of the society of Rosario and
  particularly of health workers, about the existence of degrading, cruel
  and inhuman treatment of women seeking reproductive health services.
  The project was created in order to contribute to the eradication of
  this type of treatment.

• Supported by PDHRE-People's Movement for Human Rights Education
• This book recuperates the "Work of Education in and for Human Rights" completed in 1999 within the Rosario, Human Rights City Program. The key theme is that, in order to demand and reclaim the honoring of Human Rights from the State, citizens need to take action and seize those rights.
• The explications and workshops demonstrate the challenge that human rights educators confront when trying to change conceptions and concrete practices in relation to daily life and educational institutions.

Published in Spanish and English.

Supported by the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy(CRLP), New York

Compiled for the Seventh session of the UN Human Rights Committee, October 2000, Geneva.

This is an alternative document to the official report presented by the State of Argentina to the Human Rights Committee.

It deals with the laws and public policies related to sexual and reproductive rights and the reality of women's rights in Argentina such as: family planning, abortion, methods of contraception, sterilization, HIV/AIDS, violence against women and rape.

Article by Susana Chiarotti. 1999

• This article appeared as a chapter in: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond, Yael Danieli, Elsa Stamatopoulou and Clarence J. Dias Eds. Amityville 1999.
• The article gives a general overview and assessment of the human rights situation of Latin America focusing particularly on the institutional advances and obstacles as well as the role of NGOs in the region.

Ivana Martínez, Mariana García Jurado

• Supported by the European Union and the Human Rights Decade for Education in Human Rights Committee
• This book of text and drawings about and by children emerged from puppet shows, songs, and articles from universal human rights conventions and delclarations.
• Constitutes a pleasing approach towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the chapter "The Girl" from the Women's Action Platform put forth at the 4th International Women's Conference held in Beijing, September 1995.

• Supported by the Inter-American Bank of Development
• Systematization of a series of cinema debates realized in 1999 in different Argentinean cities
• This final report of is an interesting illustration of the commencement of the cinema debate project, as well as the effectiveness of the cinema as a tool for sensitization.

Cartilla Municipalidad de Rosario. 1st Edition: 1996, 2nd Edition :1997, 3rd Edition: 1999

• Published with the help of the Women's Department of the Municipality of Rosario
• Elements of this hidden epidemic are explored in common Spanish, such as: definitions of violence; their most frequent manifestations; ways of detecting and preventing domestic violence.

• Published with the Women's Department of the Municipality of Rosario
• The publication illustrates the problem of abuse and offers some tools for its debate within the family, school and community.
• A key theme is that the eradication of child abuse lies in "de-legitimizing" violence against children, preventing violence and supporting and assisting victims of abuse.

Schuster, Gloria, Martinez Ivana, Madore, Julie. Rosario 1998

• Edited by PDHRE.
• Published in Spanish, English and French.
• Supported by the Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation and the Austrian Foreign Ministry for Development and Cooperation.
• Training manual dealing with CEDAW (Convention for the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women), to be used with 8 videos that illustrate different types of discrimination against women.
• The idea is to generate a significant learning environment based on people's own knowledge and experience.

by Susana Chiarotti, Véronica Matus

• Available in Spanish and Portuguese
• Published with the support of the European Union
• A guide for human rights training of men and women in regard to 5 areas: citizenship, development, peace & violence, sexual & reproductive rights and the environment.
• Each area includes an introduction and an analysis of related rights, with reference to treaty articles, conventions and documents from noteworthy conferences.