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This program is open for all Philippine-based women’s rights, youth-led and youth-focused, and other sectoral and community-based organizations. We will support organizations to enhance their advocacy capacities, access platforms for linking and learning and co-create advocacy and campaigns with other organizations. Together, through the program, we deepen our knowledge of SRHR and intersecting issues, improve our advocacy and influencing skills, and create a bigger impact for women and girls’ rights!

Menstrual health issues have not been given enough attention and remain to be unspoken topics surrounded by taboos, stigma, socio-cultural and religious restrictions, and isolation in Tanzanian society. In many cultures of the Tanzanian Society, menstruating women are considered impure and are excluded or restricted from participating in day-to-day public activities, such as education, some economic activities including employment, sports, cultural and religious events.his exclusion results to inequality, discrimination, and gender-based violence against menstruating women and girls; which have lasting implications throughout their life.

Civil society organizations from across the region have come together to voice our collective disappointment with the lack of representation and accessibility of the recent Generation Equality Forum (GEF), and to demand transparent and inclusive accountability processes for the Generation Equality commitments.

We are now accepting submissions for publication in the second issue of Pasya advocazine, stories, practices and perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the Philippines.

The theme of the second issue of Pasya advocazine is Intersections.

WGNRR together with Advocates for SRHR commits to support women and young people in Asia to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Through our advocacy strategies, we aim to increase the acceptability of SRH information and services, including CSE and access to contraceptives and safe abortion, encourage decision-making and bodily autonomy, and strengthen movements for SRHR in the region.

WGNRR Africa commits to work in partnership with partners in the region to coordinate collective actions to ensure laws, policies and practices enable young people and women and girls, including those with disabilities to have access to respectful, quality, youth-friendly and disability-sensitive sexual and reproductive health information and services by 2026.

On May 28, the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) and the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (PINSAN) led an online rally to amplify demands regarding women’s health amid the pandemic. Attended by a hundred women from various sectors, the rally is in line with the global commemoration of the International Day of Action for Women’s Health with the theme, “Women’s Health Matters: Ending the Inequality Pandemic and Ensuring Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights remain essential!”.

WGNRR is excited to announce that feminists and SRHR activists Alexa Johns and Nur Hidayati Handayani have recently joined our board.

Filipino artists, songwriters, storytellers, and safe abortion advocates came together to produce Pasya, a music album of 13 original songs campaigning for the decriminalization of abortion in the Philippines. Pasya music album celebrates the strength of people standing up to challenges against their rights to bodily autonomy. Through meaningful music that is light, liberating, and enabling, we are here to change the stigmatized narrative on abortion and campaign for its decriminalization in the Philippines.