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WGNRR Welcomes New Board Member: Yvette Kathurima

July 20, 2017

The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) is excited to announce the addition of Yvette Kathurima to the WGNRR Board, who brings with her many years of SRHR expertise and feminist activism. The WGNRR Board provides leadership and financial oversight of WGNRR’s vision and mission towards the full realisation of the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all people.

Udruga Pariter – WGNRRs partner from Croatia!

June 29, 2017

The Association for Human Rights and Active Citizenship PaRiter was founded in 2014 in Rijeka, Croatia and since then has been formalized as a feminist organisation that works on human rights with a focus on women’s rights and citizen participation. PaRiter has implemented various programs in high schools, organising libraries and pushing for SRHR activism […]

Fatou Janssen

June 29, 2017

Fatou has worked with different grass-root NGO’s committed to the promotion of human rights.  She earned her degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht, and in 2014 received her cum laude LLM Public International and European Law with a specialisation in International Human Rights Law, from Tilburg University. Before joining WGNRR, Fatou worked as […]

Christelyn Sibugon

June 29, 2017

Christelyn (Teta) Sibugon joins as the Project Officer of the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network. Her background is on Development Communication. Prior to joining WGNRR, she had worked on research, advocacy, and community-based trainings for and with women. She had also developed and managed a media-training program for disaster-affected youth and children in the Philippines and […]

Gill Carter

June 29, 2017

Gill Carter, originally from Ireland, has a BSc in International Development from University College Cork where she was elected gender equality officer for the university’s Student Union. Gill has experience in the areas of HIV and AIDS, SRHR, project facilitation and gender mainstreaming. Since university, Gill has worked in a number of African countries including […]

Congratulations to newly appointed Envoy on Youth Jayathma Wickramanayake!

June 20, 2017

WGNRR wants to congratulate Jayathma for being appointed by SG António Guterres as Envoy on Youth, and look forward to a strong and continued collaboration. In particular working together so that young people’s voices are heard in regards to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).