This issue of the Women's Health Collection offers a broad perspective on women's human rights with an emphasis on sexual and reproductive rights and a special outlook on certain national contexts. in these articles and essays, women's voices proclaim and demand their rights: the right to equality, to safety, to liberty, to integrity, to dignity, to not be subjected to slavery of servitude, to nob be subjected to torture or cruel, inhumane of degrading treatment of punishments.
The book contains articles on: resistance, the dilemma of black feminists, race and identity in Puerto Rico, indigenous women's struggle for rights, the economic impact of racism and sexism in Afro-descendent women, gender and ethnicity, Asian indigenous women, indigenous women today, black women's health and the feminist agenda, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Brazil, health and race, maternal mortality in indigenous zones, reducing maternal mortality in Brazil, equality and black women, black women's mental health, indigenous women: double and triple discrimination, black women: domestic violence and health, physical, mental and spiritual health of African American Women, Continental Network of Indigenous Women, the Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Network, Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, declarations.