#CSW65 This year, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the intergovernmental body dedicated to gender equality, is on its 65th session with the priority theme, “Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and […]
The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights, representing over a thousand organizations and individuals working worldwide to realize the full sexual and reproductive health and rights of all people, welcomes the upcoming focus of the 54th session of the Commission on Population and Development on population, food security, nutrition, and sustainable development, especially in light of our experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We call on advocates and organizations to partner with us this Women’s Month. We look forward to working with organizations who are doing or plans to: Showcase through arts and other creative methods the different actions of women in the pandemic preparedness and responseGather views of women and girls in all of their diversity on how an equal pandemic recovery and future should be Develop and distribute materials to increase awareness on protection and response against gender-based violence and on how to access sexual and reproductive health services.
WGNRR, in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights, will organize the 3rd International Exchange of the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (PINSAN) on decriminalization of abortion to learn from the strategies of safe abortion rights activists from Argentina, Thailand, South Korea, Honduras, Poland, and the US.
This first ever issue of Pasya discusses critical SRHR issues and challenges that have surfaced as a result of COVID-19 and highlights the responses of SRHR activists, women’s rights organizations, and grassroots communities to the issues and challenges they have faced.
Abortion up to 14 weeks of pregnancy is now legal in Argentina, a watershed moment in a majority Catholic country in a region with some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws. WGNRR joins our compañerxs in joy and solidarity on this most recent win. You inspire us to do the same in the countries […]
WGNRR, together with Resurj, Satuvisi Indonesia, Hidden Pockets Collective, and People’s Health Movement, will be conducting an online discussion series on Young People, Reproductive Justice, and Abortion Rights on November 27, December 3, 7, and 10 from 17:00-18:30 PHT.
Background The Sexual Health and Empowerment (SHE) project seeks to empower women and girls to secure their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It will improve knowledge and awareness of sexual reproductive health and rights, particularly among women and girls, including the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV); strengthen health systems and community structures to […]
