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.
The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights stands in solidarity with women and abortion rights activists in Poland that have fought against and continue to fight the near-total ban on safe abortion services in the country that results from the Constitutional Tribunal decision to reverse laws permitting abortion in cases of severe fetal disabilities.
Contrary to the message of the “Geneva Consensus Declaration”, we believe that multilateral spaces should continue to affirm the highest standards when it comes to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights, which includes access to safe and legal abortion. Meanwhile, states have the obligation to respect, protect, and fulfill these rights as inalienable and indivisible from our human rights.
This Pride month, WGNRR joins all progressive groups in defending LGBTQIA+ rights and sustaining the call for #SRHR4All. We join many groups in recognizing Pride’s roots as a solidarity movement protesting against sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, fascist and repressive forces, asserting equal rights for all, and celebrating diversity in the fullest sense of the word.
Pride is a protest and we need to protest now more than ever.
We fully commit to the mutual struggles of the Reproductive Justice and LGBTQIA+ movements as they continue to work together, not only in recognition of common enemies, but on the basis of intersectionality and a common understanding of human rights as universal and inalienable, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.
#Pride2020 #FreePride20 #SRHR4All #NoLockdownonRights
The COVID-19 pandemic should not be used as an opportunity by any one country’s sitting administration to roll back on the rights women around the world have sought for decades. The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights is one of many SRHR and feminist organizations condemning Acting USAID Administrator John Barsa’s letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio […]
As of May 11, there are 46 individuals and organizations that signed on a statement expressing concern over the preventable maternal deaths that reflects how the government’s Covid-19 response has overlooked the availability and accessibility of quality life-saving reproductive health services. The statement calls on for clear mechanisms to ensure availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of sexual and reproductive health information and services.
We, as community and civil society organizations working on sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, strongly urge the Philippine government to ensure the availability and equitable access of essential sexual and reproductive health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before the pandemic, it was estimated that 2,400 women and girls die every year in the Philippines from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. There is a high probability that these preventable deaths would only increase with diminished health system resources, lack of immediate access to accurate reproductive health information and services, inadequate transportation facilities, and decreased or total loss of income and employment opportunities in a COVID-19 response that fails to take into account the specific needs of women’s reproductive health and rights.
