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Network Spring 2007 Issue includes the following articles: 

*Aboriginal women too often the victims of racialized, sexualized
violence 

*Memorials for women across Canada 

*The Global Women's Memorial Website

*Violence prevention is a public health issue 

*What you need to know about the HPV vaccine 

*New prenatal screening recommendations discriminatory 

*The Children's Fitness Tax Credit: Less than meets the eye 

*Silicone breast implants back on the market 

*The global epidemic of tobacco use among women and girls

*It is time for a national birthing strategy

*Poor health and economic insecurity are realities for female unpaid
caregivers 

--and much more.

Editorial Excerpt:
As we go to press with this issue of Network magazine, the grisly
details of what has come to be known as the 'Pickton farm murders'
emerge in daily gratuitous media coverage.  Often the missing and
murdered women mentioned in the media stories - the victims of such
horrendous violence - are dehumanized, and we are provided with passing
references to the fact that many of them were living in poverty,
struggling with addictions, working in the sex trade, living in
Vancouver's seedy Downtown Eastside.  Their lives, loves and
achievements are not celebrated, and their struggles provide merely the
backdrop to the attention and mounting notoriety that the accused
perpetrator receives almost daily in the same media coverage.  

Sadly, this is not unique to this particular case, but has become the
traditional way in which violence against women is addressed in our
mainstream media.  We did not want to replicate that pattern here.  Our
attention, instead, is paid to the struggles and lived realities of the
missing and murdered women of Canada, so many of them Aboriginal women
-- a national tragedy.  And how we may be able to memorialize the
victims of such crimes, and others who have suffered similar violent
ends, in ways that celebrate their lives, yet appropriately address the
need for putting an end to violence that targets women because they are
women.  

The articles on violence that follow only begin this work, and it is up
to all of us to continue to find ways to establish a lasting cultural
memory of these women in all of their humanity, and to challenge the
systemic inequalities, including race, gender and economic security,
that permit this violence to be repeated.

We also introduce a number of articles on other pressing health topics,
including the complexity of the HPV debate, the mounting maternity care
crisis in Canada, and the continuing economic hardship and health
consequences suffered by unpaid caregivers, who are most often women,
plus much more women's health content.  


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visit: http://www.cwhn.ca

Sincerely,
_________________________________
Kathleen O'Grady
Director of Communications
Canadian Women's Health Network
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