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The Youth Leadership Working Group wrote a letter to the UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon in relation to the Synthesis Report on Post- 2015.

International Women’s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific with the support of Masimanyane Women’s Support Center (South Africa) will be hosting a multi-country CEDAW shadow report training from the 21-24th of November 2014. This training will take place in South Africa.

For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the Americas—is recommending that all governments decriminalize abortion in cases of rape and incest, when the woman’s health or life is at risk and in cases of fetal impairments.

The International Women and Health Meeting (IWHM) is an international forum for women’s grassroots organizations, academics, and advocates promoting women’s health, sexual and reproductive rights.The 12th meeting organised by Colectiva Mujer y Salud with the support of the International and local organising committees will take place from October 20 to 23, 2015 in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic and will mark the 40 years of the event.

5th of October, 2014 marks the 4th anniversary of the arrest of Dr. Ágnes Geréb. An arrest which led to her imprisonment for 70 days followed by house arrest for a further 3 years and 2 months. Then in late February, 2014 the Court of Appeal ruled that her confinement conditions should be relaxed for health reasons.

Mozambique will become one of the four African countries to legalise abortion. Mozambique’s parliament has already approved the groundbreaking legislation, but it still needs to be signed by the President Armando Guebuza.

The Committee of Experts (CEVI) of the Follow-up Mechanism to the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, “Convention of Belém do Pará” (MESECVI) issued a Declaration on Violence against Women, Girls and Adolescents and their Sexual and Reproductive Rights (English, Spanish). In the declaration CEVI reaffirmed sexual and reproductive […]

Few highlights of the many, many ways in which activists mobilized worldwide, speaking out against #abortionstigma and demanding access to safe and legal abortion!