This World AIDS Day, the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW)’s Chapter for Young Women, Adolescents, and Girls (CYWAG), and the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) are emphasizing the need to realize the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls living with HIV!
In a press statement civil society organizations from across the Asia Pacific region expressed their disappointment at the regressive outcomes document agreed to by the States. They questioned the lack of progressive language on sexual rights and on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). CSOs also reiterated the need for accountability and financial and political will to ensure States’ commitments under the BPfA, including ensuring that these commitments are included in the post 2015 development agenda.
On November 25, the Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women, submit letters to the embassies of seven countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, where abortion is completely prohibited and penalized demanding that governments ensure access to safe and legal abortion.
WGNRR’s Asia Programme Officer, Marevic Parcon, delivered a statement of Asia-Pacific CSOs during the review of the progress and remaining challenges in implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Asia and the Pacific at the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing +20 Review. The CSO statement calls […]
The CSO statement is an outcome document of the Civil Society Forum that gathered more than 400 CSOs from across Asia-Pacific to call on the governments for accountability for the commitments made almost twenty years ago in the Beijing to advance gender equality and the rights of women and girls.
On November 14, 2014, over 400 feminist women activists working on women’s rights will meet in Bangkok at the Asia-Pacific CSO Forum on Beijing+20 (APCSOB20) to discuss what their governments have done to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. Activists from across the region will note if the reported progress by States has been sufficient and what States should be doing to tackle the challenges that remain on the 12 critical areas of concern identified twenty years ago in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
Prior to the UNESCAP meeting, a coalition of feminist, women activists from the region have come together to plan for a CSO forum to ensure that women from the Asia-Pacific region are able to come together to hold governments accountable and influence the review process to ensure that governments make good on their promises 20 years ago.
The CSO Forum, supported by UN Women, will commence on November 14 at the UNESCAP building, Bangkok, Thailand, starting with registration and an opening plenary.
CSOs Statement ‘Promoting Accountability and Addressing Inequalities: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights & Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific’ is an outcome document of the 12th APA Conference. It calls for stronger accountability for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in achieving sustainable development.
