Reference:
Ministerial Roundtables Hosted by UNIFEM (April 2003)
Annotation:
These documents are presentations made at the ministerial roundtables organized by UNIFEM in April 2003 in New York in preparation for ECOSOC meetings in July 2003 in Geneva. The roundtable talks focused on issues such as: the relationship between the spread of HIV/AIDS and food insecurity, women's work in the food production industry, the impact water privatization on poverty, and how economic policies and poverty reduction frameworks can respond. Overall, the speakers concluded that the interaction between poverty and HIV/AIDS threatens women's lives and health, and impedes development of rural societies. [Descriptors: Reproductive Rights - HIV/AIDS, International]