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La Red Mundial de Mujeres por los Derechos Reproductivos celebra con júbilo la decisión del Congreso de El Salvador de aprobar el indulto a Guadalupe, una de las 17 mujeres encarceladas injustamente por homicidio después de haber sufrido complicaciones durante su embarazo. El Congreso aprobó el indulto con un total de 43 votos a favor después de que el Comité de Derechos Humanos del Congreso y la Corte Suprema de Justicia volvieran a presentar sus recomendaciones para que se diera su liberación.

WGNRR stands in solidarity with Guadalupe, one of the seventeen Salvadoran women unfairly imprisoned after having suffered obstetric complications, and support Amnesty International campaign calling for immediate release of “The17”.

We congratulate the Mozambican SRHR movement for its advocacy, networking, and mobilization efforts related to the new legislation, the National Assembly for approving the bill, and the President for signing it into law. This victory is huge step forward for women not only in Mozambique, but in Africa as a whole, as it embodies a strong commitment to respect, protect, and fulfill women and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights, including their right to health, physical and psychological integrity, and bodily autonomy.

The CSO Forum provided an opportunity for CSOs from the Asia and the Pacific region to consolidate their key demands and to strategize on how to best make the governments accountable for the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action as well as putting forward new commitments on gender equality and women’s rights. More than 450 women activists, feminists, and other CSO representatives from the region came together to call for accountability of governments and to influence the Beijing +20 review processes.

The Young Leaders Program is a three-year fellowship program for young people (under the age of 30) who are passionate about sexual and reproductive health and rights. While the total time required to fully participate in the Young Leaders Program depends on the individual, Young Leaders should expect to commit an average of up to 10 hours a week.
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In response to the recent decision of the Dominican Republic´s Chamber of Deputies to adopt a bill that upholds the country’s absolute ban on abortion, and maintains the criminalization of abortion in all cases, WGNRR sent a letter to the President of the Dominican Republic calling on him to veto the bill.

Addis Ababa Declaration is an outcome document of the 9th African Regional Conference on Women organised to review the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). By adopting this declaration African states committed among other things to invest in sexual and reproductive health and rights, to expand provision of family planning services […]