The Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRDIC) calls on Wang Xiaohong, the Director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, Chairman Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang to immediately and unconditionally ensure the release the five young women human rights defenders who were criminally detained in China after they planned events to protest sexual harassment on International Women’s Day.
ICW and WGNRR JOINT STATEMENT Submitted at the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (March 9-20, 2015) We the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights and the International Community of Women Living with HIV, welcome the opportunity to represent at the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women […]
In honour of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2015, we invite all members, partners, and allies to send us your “Words of Hope” through postcards and letters, which we will forward to the remaining Las 17 and other incarcerated women on 1 April 2015, marking one year since the original requests for their pardon.
*Following the Asia Pacific Beijing +20 review, Sri Lanka had the first ever Beijing+20 Youth Review on SRHR and Gender Equality in preparation for the 59th CSW. 27 Young people from 18 different CSOs, youth networks and Government bodies were a part of the youth review and the Advocacy in Practice training on the 6th and 7th of February 2015. The youth recommendations were then made into a statement and was reviewed by an experts panel including youth advocates. The statement was also presented to the minister of Women’s Affairs Sri Lanka and to the Chairperson of the National Committee on Women who are the National delegates to the 59th CSW.
La Red Mundial de Mujeres por los Derechos Reproductivos (WGNRR por sus siglas en inglés), celebra la liberación de Guadalupe, una de las 17 mujeres injustamente encarceladas en El Salvador por cargos de homicidio, quien llevaba 7 años en prisión. Guadalupe, víctima de violencia sexual, fue denunciada por aborto e injustamente encarcelada por homicidio después […]
The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights celebrates the release of Guadalupe, one of the 17 women unjustly imprisoned in El Salvador on suspicion of having an abortion, who is now finally reunited with her family after 7 years in prison. Guadalupe, a victim of sexual violence, was denounced to the authorities for abortion and […]
WGNRR welcomes Michelle Bachelet’s proposal sent forward in Congress to legalize abortion in cases of rape or when there is a threat to the mother’s or of the foetus.
WGNRR welcomes with great joy the pardon issued by the Salvadoran Congress for “Guadalupe,” one of the 17 women wrongfully imprisoned for homicide after suffering pregnancy-related complications. The pardon was approved by Congress with 43 votes in favour after both the Human Rights Congressional Committee and Supreme Court Committee resubmitted their recommendation for her release.
