ARHA keeps the issues of reproductive health, population and development on the agenda through regular participation in, attendance at and monitoring of various international and United Nations conferences and seminars.

Recent Papers presented by ARHA

• "Sexual and Reproductive Health in Australia's Aid Program" - speech to United Nations Association of Australia Annual Conference in Melbourne on 27 August 2007 by Jenny Goldie, ARHA Manager, Policy and Advocacy

• Powerpoint Presentation by CEO Christina Richards to Fertility Society of Australia (FSA) meeting, Parliament House, Canberra, November 2006
  
  
• Powerpoint Presentation by CEO Christina Richards to Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations (IAWG), Sydney, October 2006
  
  
• Powerpoint Presentation "Are you for 86?" by CEO Christina Richards to European NGOs for Sexuial and Reproductive Health (EuroNGOs) Conference and Membership Meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania, June 2006 (with notes)
  
  
• International Women's Development Agency Conference 2005
  
  
• 5th Australian Women's Health Conference " The changing contexts affecting women’s health: how the international climate affects Australia and our region" 2005
  
  
• UNIFEM Informs - Gender Equality in Developing Countries 2005
  
  
• Global Health Symposium "Life or Death is a political decision: The effects of our conservative environment of inaction" 2005

>>> Archives of previous ARHA papers presented at conferences

Recent Conferences attended by ARHA

• Fertility Society of Australia Meeting, Parliament House, Canberra, November 2006
  
  
• Third International Parliamentarians' Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action ("IPCI") - Bangkok, November 2006
  
  
• Annual Meeting and Conference of the Asia Pacific Alliance (APA) - Bangkok, November 2006
  
  
• Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations (IAWG), Sydney, October 2006
  
  
• 4th Asian-Pacific Women Parliamentarians and Ministers Conference in New Zealand June 2006 (accompanied by Senators Allison and Moore)
  
  
• European NGOs for Sexual and Reproductive Health (EuroNGOs) Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 2006
  
  
• Workshop: 'Advocating for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights within the Millennium Development Goals beyond/after the 2005 World Summit' and Meeting of the Secretariat of the APPGPDs, Brussels, February 2006
  
  
• ACFID - Introduction to working in the aid and development sector, Sydney 2006
  
  
• AFPPD Focus Group on HIV and domestic violence, Ho Chi Minh City, December 2005
  
  
• UNIFEM Informs - Gender Equality in developing Countries, Canberra
  
  
• 3rd Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive & Sexual Health, Malaysia 2005
  
  
• 10th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development, Thailand 2005
  
  
• Pan Pacific Regional HIV/AIDS conference, New Zealand 2005
  

Recent Conferences & Seminars run by ARHA

ARHA also runs various conferences, forums and seminars, please see our Events page for further details.
Some recent events include:

• Roundtable Discussions in Parliament House, Canberra, on "Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals - the Way Forward" (held by the Parliamentary Group on Population and Develpment (PGPD), with PGPD Secretariat services provided by ARHA. Two Roundtables held, 14 August and 11 September 2006.
• IPPF NGO Forum jointly run with Sexual Health & Family Planning Australia March 2006
• Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea Forum, October 2005
• ARHA NGO Forum with UNFPA's Director Thoraya Obaid March 2005
  

United Nations Meetings

ARHA monitors and joins with other civil society organisations in providing and contributing to policy development and commentary on the key United Nations meetings of relevance to Sexual and Reproductive Health issues.

ARHA also has NGO Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations which allows ARHA to be invited to and attend international conferences convened by the United Nations as well as speak and circulate statements at subsidiary bodies meetings.

UN meetings of special significance for ARHA's work are:

United Nationals General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS

Webcast Coverage of UNGASS 2006
May 30 | May 31 | June 1 | June 2

UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2006
Political Declaration for UNGASS Review 2006

Commission on Population and Development

Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations World Summit