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Scaling the summit for women's rights: From local to global and global to local (p.21) Bandana Rana Finding your voice and identity for many women in South Asia, including Nepal, is like climbing Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world—not an easy task with deeply embedded patriarchal values and gender norms. Violence against women, particularly domestic violence, is the biggest deterrent to women's advancement and development. However, with support from a vibrant women's movement and civil society activism, scaling this mountainous hurdle can be possible. This article examines both the challenges that women in Nepal face and the progress that women's rights groups have achieved in promoting gender equality in that country. Through both personal and systemic reflections, world-renown women's rights activist Bandana Rana presents her journey for gender equality from the local to the global and back. Tradition, development, and gender equality: Addressing the incoherences through collective action (p.32) Tara Lipovina This article addresses gender coherence for development, defined as transformative development that addresses systemic power differences that discriminate against women. Following the contribution from Bandana Rana, this scientific article reflects on challenges that women face in Nepal, with specific discussion of patriarchal traditions. However, the analysis notes that the development does not necessarily positively effect gender equality. Regional policies, such as the European Union's neighborhood policies in the Western Balkans (specifically in Montenegro), and the Association of Southeast Asian Nation's economic policies often undermine the gender equality initiatives from these regions. The article identifies collective action and norm ownership as important bases for achieving transformative development that promotes gender equality. Mujeres indígenas, desarrollo y derecho a una vida libre de violencia (p.40) Mónica Carrasco Gómez y Perla O. Fragoso Lugo En este artículo se argumenta la relevancia de la participación directa de las mujeres indígenas en la planeación, modelación, ejecución y evaluación de las políticas públicas dirigidas a ellas como una población diversa, con agendas comunes a las de las mujeres mestizas, pero también con necesidades, problemáticas y propuestas distintas e incluso diferenciadas según su propio grupo cultural. Para ello nos centramos en el abordaje de los programas gubernamentales y la literatura producida en torno al desarrollo social y al combate a la violencia de género contra las mujeres en el estado de Chiapas, la entidad con el mayor número de habitantes hablantes de una lengua indígena en México. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Backgroudn This paper analyzes the main barriers to seeking health care and the regulation of alcohol abusers and their relatives in a rural community. Objective Was to analyze the metaphors and dilemmas of alcohol consumers and their families regarding their health needs, seeking care, the implementation of regulation and the obstacles they face in a rural community in Mexico. Method This is a qualitative case study, involving ethnography, focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Results How that people view alcohol abuse as a problem until an addiction occurs and are torn between regarding it as a “vice" or a disease. Seeking care is hampered by tolerance towards consumption, ignorance of how to proceed, fear of “gossip" in a context of weak regulation and treatment options, where consumption is socio-culturally encouraged. Discussion and conclusion That the meanings and dilemmas faced by actors in the search for health care and the regulation of alcohol sales constitute barriers to which the health system must respond in an integral fashion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background Harmful alcohol use is identified as a public health problem and the success of the health system response to needs will depend on the programs, the actors who implement them and their degree of acceptability among the recipient population. Objective To determine the perception of how political, civil, commercial and health system actors meet the health needs derived from harmful alcohol use in a rural area, with the aim of providing information for decision-making in health policies to cope with this problem. Method Case study with a qualitative approach, conducted in a rural town of Morelos, in which its inhabitants identified the fact that alcohol posed a health problem. Results Discourse is analyzed by identifying the metaphors used to make sense of this phenomenon and the dilemmas faced. Discussion and conclusion The authors discuss the differences in the way it is perceived and how they prevent the implementation of actions to prevent and deal with alcohol abuse and sales regulations. They conclude that designing public policies that respond to the health needs in this area requires taking into account the dilemmatic nature of the social thinking of the individuals involved in this response, which goes beyond health service provision, and incorporating social determinants (economic, political and cultural). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]