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We urge you to call on your national leaders to make a commitment at home and from the floor of the three conferences to support universal access to safe abortion as life-saving healthcare for anyone with an unwanted pregnancy. This call will be made also in the document Reviewing and achieving the ICPD Programme of Action – UNECE Regional Voice, which will soon be posted on the www.CSOPartnersforChange.org website. It will contain the key messages and comments that can be used to encourage Governments to submit Commitments from their countries during ICPD in November. The UNECE recommendations may differ from those of other regions but are nonetheless relevant to the full implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action, and can be adapted for other regions.

May 28 is the International Day of Action for Women’s Health,1 for over 30 years, women*, girls, advocates and allies have continued to take action, stand up and speak out for sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). May 28 is a key day for us, as activists, to call for the promotion, protection, prioritisation and advancement of sexual and reproductive health rights on local, national and international scales.

The international community recognizes that we cannot achieve sustainable development without
prioritizing the achievement of same rights for all.

The activities that took place in 2018 stimulated and generated support for ongoing campaigns in countries where women are still endangered by unsafe abortion, threatened with criminal punishment, and subject to stigma in the absence of progressive laws and services that recognise safe abortion as a public health necessity and a fundamental human right.

With stringent and devastating rollbacks affecting the SRHR movement globally, the need for collective action and resistance is at an all-time high. At present, WGNRR does not receive financial support or funding for our global reproductive justice campaigning. In order to continue our global campaigning, we need your support!

Please donate, and help us fundraise for future global initiatives, and to sustain our work!

On the occasion of September 28 International Safe Abortion Day – Global Day of Action, WGNRR together with partner organisations and networks demand the normalisation of abortion. Although the legal status of abortion varies across regions, abortion is usually stigmatised and commonly thought of as  a “rare” and “uncommon” procedure. We know the reality is much […]

When political leaders and government officials permit attacks on WHRDs and/or are unresponsive when cases of harassment and violence are brought to light, they impede human rights and are complicit in the perpetuation or even legitimization of the harassment experienced by WHRDs.

I think the very first time I got curious about my sexuality and reproductive health, was when I first started menstruating. From there, my family instilled in me the correlation of menstruation, pregnancy, and of being a “legitimate” woman, since then I have protected my body and have been overly cautious – worried about even […]