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Geetanjali Misra is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of CREA, a Global South led feminist human rights organisation based in New Delhi, India. Geeta has worked at the activist, grant-making, and policy levels on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, gender, human rights, and violence against women. Before joining CREA, she was Program Officer Sexuality and Reproductive Health for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi and supported non-governmental organisations in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka working on sexual and reproductive health and rights. She also co-founded SAKHI for South Asian Women in New York in 1989, a non-profit organisation in New York, committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. Geeta is the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of Mama Cash (The Netherlands); Board Member of Reproductive Health Matters (UK); and Member of the Expert Advisory Group of Cordaid (The Netherlands) and of the Advisory Board of FHI360 (US). She was President of the Board of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) from 2006–2008. She writes on issues of sexuality, gender, and rights, and has co-edited Sexuality, Gender, and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia. Geeta holds Master’s degrees in International Affairs from Columbia University, US, and in Economics from Syracuse University, US. Geeta is a film buff and plans her entire year around finding the time to attend a film festival in Colorado every September, where she sees 21 films over a long weekend. She loves trekking, reading, and visiting new places.
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Six years after the Indian government affirmed its commitment to the principles of the 1994 Inter... more Six years after the Indian government affirmed its commitment to the principles of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, there is still a limited understanding of the concept of reproductive and sexual health amongpolicymakers, programme managers and the public in India. Despite some progressive changes, there is a continuing focus on stabilising population growth rates and lack of unity of goals among women’ s rights advocates, service providers and policymakers. Advocacy efforts need to begin focusing on turning progressive reproductive health policies into concrete programmes on the ground, and continue to push for progressive policies in uncharted areas such as domestic violence. Those who implement programmes need to work with potential allies such as women’ s groups, development groups, health workers’ associations and the media, who all need to be brought on board. What continues to be missing are policies and programmes that promote not only health but also rights and the empowerment of women. Without a strong focus on the links between these, India’ s reproductive health policies and programmes may become like ‘ grass without roots’ .
Six years after the Indian government affirmed its commitment to the principles of the 1994 Inter... more Six years after the Indian government affirmed its commitment to the principles of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, there is still a limited understanding of the concept of reproductive and sexual health amongpolicymakers, programme managers and the public in India. Despite some progressive changes, there is a continuing focus on stabilising population growth rates and lack of unity of goals among women’ s rights advocates, service providers and policymakers. Advocacy efforts need to begin focusing on turning progressive reproductive health policies into concrete programmes on the ground, and continue to push for progressive policies in uncharted areas such as domestic violence. Those who implement programmes need to work with potential allies such as women’ s groups, development groups, health workers’ associations and the media, who all need to be brought on board. What continues to be missing are policies and programmes that promote not only health but also rights and the empowerment of women. Without a strong focus on the links between these, India’ s reproductive health policies and programmes may become like ‘ grass without roots’ .