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WGNRR’s written statement for the 51st session of the Commission on Population and Development on sustainable cities, human mobility and international migration.

With stringent and devastating rollbacks affecting the SRHR movement globally, the need for collective action and resistance is at an all time high. At present, WGNRR does not receive financial support or funding for our global reproductive justice campaigning. In order to continue our global campaigning, we need your support!

WGNRR welcomes the focus of the Commission of the Status of Women on gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls. In particular, we would like to draw the Commission’s attention to fulfilling the sexual and reproductive health and rights of rural women and girls, as a crucial component of realizing their rights, and in turn their empowerment and wellbeing.

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Dr. Natalia Kanem born in Panama as the Fund’s fifth Executive Director. She will succeed Dr. Babatunde whom we mourn and honor as the strong and invaluable ally in advocating for women and girls’ health and rights, including their sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Learn about the diverse ways and strategies that groups, organizations and individuals have been using around the world in their fight towards access to safe and legal abortion.

The Philippines should allow abortion in certain cases, said a spokesperson of the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (Pinsan) at the UN. Ana Maria “Princess” Nemenzo, who also spoke on behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), and PINSAN, and is currently the national coordinator of WomanHealth Philippines, delivered this message during the Philippine UPR Report Consideration at the 25th Meeting of the 36th Regular Session Human Rights Council on September 22, 2017

Dear members, allies, colleagues, and friends of WGNRR, After eight years at WGNRR, our Executive Director Kathy Mulville, is stepping down from her position at the end of September 2017. She successfully led the WGNRR team through transition from the Netherlands to the Philippines, expanding the organisation through the establishment of offices and presence in […]

I grew up in one of Nairobi’s biggest slums- Mukuru Kayaba.  My mother was one of the women trained by AMREF to assist women giving birth. Listening to my mother’s daily debriefs I became acutely aware of the high rates of maternal mortality in our community from an early age. Later on in my first […]