A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF FEMINISM THEORIES IN THE MOVIE OF 7 HATI 7 CINTA 7 WANITA DIRECTED BY ROBBY ERTANTO

The movie 7 Hati 7 Cinta 7 Wanita directed by Robby Ertanto that presents a representation of seven women in the Indonesian context through certain signs, concepts, thoughts, and language. This representation can be in the form of a depiction of physical or psychological violence, subordination, workload, power, or women's reproductive rights. The research method used Roland Barthes' semiotic analysis model and constructivist paradigm approach. Barthes' theory represents two ideological signs that he put forward, namely the denotative sign system or the connotative sign system: A denotative sign, which is a more rigorous descriptive system than the connotative sign it has described, is the result of the existing signifier image and the signified concept. for example vegetables and milk are markers and healthy and strong are markers. Whereas A connotative sign is a sign that experiences a shift in its historical meaning due to a change in meaning. It can be influenced by a change in culture or terminology, an event that occurs in a situation, or even just an evolution.The results of this study indicate that in the movie7 Hati 7 Cinta 7 Wanita contains at least three points of findings: (1) aspects of female domestication and gender politics, which encourage women to be placed in traditional positions as housewives, (2) aspects of segregation, namely placing women in a weak position in relation to men, (3) many women experience the reality that places them in subordinate positions.

Abortion care-seeking and reproductive rights violation in health facilities: evidence from six states of India

Background: Unsafe abortion continues to draw the researcher's attention due to its close association with maternal morbidity and mortality. Empirical evidence on the role of health facilities in providing safe abortion care addressing the reproductive rights of Indian women is limited.Methods: Using data from the 2015 ‘unintended pregnancy and abortion in India’ study, the present paper aimed to understand the violation of the reproductive rights of abortion care seekers in health facilities (n=4001) in six states of India. The health facilities were sampled using a stratified random sampling strategy. Univariate and bivariate analysis was carried out using SPSS (V 25) on cleaned and weighted data.Results: A sizeable percentage of public and private health facilities across states found seeking the consent of the husband or family members before abortion provision, compel women to adopt contraception and turn away abortion seekers, commonly citing non-medical reasons. The provision of post-abortion complications services is usually not 24/7, even at the primary health centre level, hindering access to an urgent health care need.Conclusions: There is a need to improve access to facility-based abortion services, especially in underserved rural areas, by ensuring that all public-sector facilities have adequate equipment and supplies, including MMA drugs and trained providers. Sensitization of health care providers about the importance of ethical issues and women’s reproductive rights is urgently required to ensure safe, legal, and accessible abortion care.

The Politics of LGBTQ Rights Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean

The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for the expansion of rights and setbacks, especially since the mid 2000s. Explanations are organized according to three themes: (1) the (re-)emergence of a religious cleavage; (2) the role of political institutions such as presidential leadership, political parties, federalism, courts, and transnational forces; and (3) the role of social movement strategies, and especially, unity. The last section compares the progress on LGBTQ rights (significant) with reproductive rights (insignificant). This Element concludes with an overview of the causes and possible future direction of the current backlash against LGBTQ rights.

Coercing to sterilization: classification of species

The article provides a concept of coerced sterilization and structuring of its varieties. The problems and the status of protecting the realization of reproductive rights both at national and international levels have been studied. This research is based on the analysis of the experience and legislation of such countries as Ukraine, Central America and Africa countries, USA, Germany, China, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, Singapore, India, Czech Republic, Japan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova and others, illustrating the coercion of persons to surgical sterilization. The UN, WHO and other international and governmental organizations' international legal acts, laws, decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) have been studied. The authors have used statistics from international organizations, expert opinions, doctrinal ideas and views on this issue. First, it is proved that this type of sterilization occurs under the pressure of psychological, political, material circumstances. Many states either contribute financially to this phenomenon or establish discriminatory rules against those who do not wish to undergo this medical procedure. Then the classification of this type of sterilization is given: convicted persons, transgender people, HIV-infected persons and representatives of the poorest layers of the population in overpopulated regions are subject to coerced sterilization. The existence of this problem is also due to insufficient legal regulation, gaps in solving the problem of the responsibility for bribery or mental coercion to sterilization, which leads to profanity, so we can overcome obstacles to human reproductive rights only by eliminating or reducing the negative impact of these factors. On the basis of the conducted research it is offered the ways on improving the prevention and punishment of cases of forcing individuals to renounce the right to reproduce one's kind.

Stakeholders’ Perceptions of the Linkage Between Reproductive Rights and Environmental Sustainability

The fulfilment of reproductive health and rights may have a synergistic relationship to environmental sustainability because it leads to lower fertility levels. With this in mind, and with the objective of increasing the legitimacy, funding and acceptance of reproductive health and rights, I conducted a mixed-methods qualitative study consisting of an online survey followed by in-depth interviews. I reached out to two groups of participants: stakeholders of the reproductive health and rights movement, and stakeholders of the environmental sustainability movement. I explored how stakeholders perceived the linkages between family planning, population growth and environmental sustainability. Results indicate that these stakeholders overwhelmingly support the integration of the reproductive health and rights ideological framework in a wider sustainability frame reflecting environmental considerations. I identified three barriers to both addressing and implementing the linkage: responsibility allocation injustice, colonialism and discrimination, and marginalisation. Environmental sustainability and reproductive health and rights stakeholders appear in favour of applying what could be considered ‘environmental mainstreaming’ to the reproductive health and rights field. Environmental sustainability stakeholders were more likely than reproductive health and rights stakeholders, who were more divided on this issue, to endorse the linkage and related concepts.

Family Planning Programs – An Opportunity to Integrate Preconception Health Services into Primary Health Care

A life-course approach to enhancing maternal and child health by improving parental health prior to conception is gaining international interest. Healthcare providers and researchers are seeking effective ways to increase women’s and men’s access to preconception care, especially through primary care. At the same time, preconception health includes conversations about pregnancy planning (or avoidance), which is a part of FP services. Unfortunately, “family planning” has the same meaning as “contraception” for many people at the moment, which is too simplistic because there are multiple aspects of preconception health and well-being. Expanding the understanding of preconception health as inclusive of FP and primary care has the potential to increase access to this important care while respecting sexual and reproductive rights, according to a couple’s reproductive plans. Respecting the sexual and reproductive rights of the population requires that FP programs be focused not only on contraception but, equally, on preconception care.