Gender, sex-selection and safe abortion: creating common ground

Dear All,

Greetings from the Coalition for Maternal-Neonatal Health and Safe Abortion (CMNHSA)!

It gives us a great pleasure to inform you that the workshop which we had postponed in December, 2008 will now be conducted in Mumbai from 13th -16th April, 2009.

The workshop "GENDER, SEX-SELECTION AND SAFE ABORTION: CREATING COMMON GROUND", will cover a broader range of topic from rights to abortion, declining sex-ratios, sex selective abortion to the PC/PNDT act.

We are also happy to inform you that since we now have more funding available for the course, we are able to offer it at a much lower fee of Rs.3000/-. These fees will cover lodging, boarding, resource materials, conference costs etc. Travel costs will have to be borne by the participants.

Course Faculty:

Abhijit Das, Director, Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ)
Leila Caleb Varkey, Independent Consultant, formerly Sr. Programme Officer, Population Council, New Delhi
Leni Chaudhuri, Sr.Research Officer, Center for Enquiry into Health and Allied themes (CEHAT)
Sharad D. Iyengar, Chief Executive, Action Research & Training for Health (ARTH), Udaipur
Suchitra Dalvie, Coordinator, Asia Safe Abortion Partnership, Mumbai
Renu Khanna, Trustee, SAHAJ, Baroda
TK Sundari Ravindran, Honorary Professor, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum

For any further questions, please feel free to contact us by phone
(+91.98210 76251) or

e-mail ( shilpan_desai@yahoo.com).

We look forward to hear from you soon!

Sincerely,

Shilpa Shroff

Course Coordinator