Sexuality Rights on the Web and IRL

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Sexuality Rights on the Web and IRL

• Audacia Ray
• International Womens Health Coalition
• Leandro Vieira dos Santos
• Reprolatina

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• Mission To promote and protect the rights and
  health of girls and women by generating
  responsive policies, programs, and funding.

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What We Do

• Advocate in the United Nations and national
  capitals
• Empower local leaders and organizations
• Mobilize women and young people
• Inform powerbrokers, influentials and health
  professionals

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Where IWHC Works

• Regionally
• AfricaCameroun, Nigeria, Southern Africa
• AsiaBangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan
• Latin AmericaBrazil, Peru
• Globally
• United Nations, WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS
• European Governments
• Washington, DC

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http//iwhc.org
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http//blog.iwhc.org
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youtube.com/intlwomenshealth
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http//flickr.com/photos/iwhc
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http//apps.facebook.com/causes/iwhc
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What constitutes potent change and a revolution
can simply be an idea that works. Possibilities
and ideas often remain wishes, hidden inside
young minds if latent potential goes unnoticed.
The YP was founded with this belief as The Youth
Parliament in 2002 and in 2007 registered as The
YP Foundation.
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http//theyouthparliament.blogspot.com
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Ishita Chaudry, founder Ishita Sharma, member
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http//www.genderjustice.org.za
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http//www.genderjustice.org.za/onemancan
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Bafana Kumalo, co-founder and co-director 
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Living Adolescenceadolescencia.org.br

• A Brazilian website for adolescents and young
  people managed by adolescents

Leandro Vieira dos Santos Reprolatina
www.reprolatina.org.br
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History - 1999

• Amateur Site
• Free Server
• Few resources
• Volunteer work
• Questions answered by e-mail

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History - 2000

• Website almost professional
• Support from Reprolatina
• URL adolescencia.org.br
• Part-time job for two adolescents
• Questions answered by e-mail

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History - 2001

• Professionalization of the site
• Technical Support from the University of
  Michigan
• a third adolescent joined the website team
• Questions answered by e-mail

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History 2003

• The site is professional
• Five adolescents in the website team
• Questions Answered on the website, without
  identification, maintaining confidentiality.
  Questions and answers are available for
  navigators (Dynamic ASP DB)

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History - 2005

• Portal
• More Interactivity
• Services (program to calculate fertbile period
• Educational videos, news, polls, quizzes

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History - 2009

• Portal
• Focus on advocacy on adolescents sexual and
  reproductive rights
• Increased interactivity and users participation
• Became a capacity building website

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Numbers

• Total of Visits More than 3 million visits
• Average Time 0617
• Average Pages per visit 09
• Total of questions answered more than 25.000
• Visitors from Portugal and Mozambique
• A Ministry of Health poll showed that the website
  was the first remembered by adolescents

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Visits per year
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Questions per day
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Question by theme
N 17.258 2004 - 2008
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Questions Details Body Section
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Questions Details Contraception
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Research

• Objectives
• To use the data to improve the website
• To know the user profile

• First Research
• During 05/07/2001 to 07/07/2001
• 441 questionaires answered

• Second research
• During 04/20/2003 to 05/24/2003
• 186 questionaires answered

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Research (2)
What your opinion about the access to website?
2001
2003
N 440
N 186
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Research (3)
What is your opinion about the website?
2001
2003
N 440
N 186
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Research (4)
The website has been usefull?
2001
2003
N 440
N 186
Main Utilities

• Resolve doubts
• Information

• School Home Work
• Research

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Lessons Learned

• Website is a continuous action of the institution
  that requires human resources, equipment and and
  financing
• Adolescents prefer peesonalized answers even when
  answers are in the data base
• Potential clientele always increasing. Very young
  adolescents also visit the site and make questions

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Lessons Learned

• The information needs to be updated frequently
• We need a team to update information and
  participate in other online spaces such as Orkut,
  Twitter, YouTube and others
•  Facilitate the participation of adolescents in
  the site through new spaces like a forum, blog,
  capacity building and others

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Challenges

• Ensuring the sustainability of the site
• Increase the participation of users at site
• Train some visitors in SR, RR and Advocacy
• Transform the website in an instrument for
  advocacy and training for adolescents to exercise
  their rights
• To become a reference for schools

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Next Steps Partnership with IWHC

• Create a space to increase the adolescent
  participation
• Provide capacity building for adolescents in SR,
  RR, gender issues and advocacy
• Become leaders and reference on sexual rights,
  reproductive rights, gender equity