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Please share your feedback with us about the 2016 September 28 Step Into Our Shoes Campaign!

By Love Matters in partnership with WGNRR 09.28.2016-PRESS RELEASE “I have still not shared my experience with most of my friends and family.  I want to be able to stand up and tell women that having an abortion, which 1 in 3 women do, is not such a big deal. I would like to be […]

Call for Action September 28 Global Day of Action Celebrating International Safe Abortion Day Let’s challenge abortion stigma & gender stereotypes! “Step Into Our Stories, #StepIntoOurShoes” Access to safe and legal abortion is a HUMAN RIGHT, grounded in numerous human rights recognized and protected under international law, including the rights to bodily integrity, autonomy in […]

International Youth Day 2016: #YouthVoicesMatter! Uphold Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights! This International Youth Day, the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) and the Latin American Caribbean Women’s Health Network (LACWHN) join advocates worldwide in calling on governments to ensure young people’s meaningful participation in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation […]

Sumithra is a recent graduate from the University of Sussex in the UK where she read International Development under the tutelage of Robert Chambers and Andrea Cornwall. Sumithra has extensive experience in the fields of advocacy, awareness raising and communications, particularly in work related to human rights and representation to women, children and victims of […]

The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) is alarmed with the New Penal Code recently adopted by the Dominican Republic’s Chamber of Deputies, which eliminates the proposed abortion clause and reinstates its criminalization in all circumstances.

WGNRR participated in the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development happened on 11-20 July 2016 at the UN Headquarters in New York.  WGNRR’s Asia Programme Officer, Marevic Parcon, attended the event with the support from the Asia Pacific Regional CSO Mechanism. Marevic was selected to speak on behalf of the Major Groups and Other Stakeholders […]

Las abajo firmantes, organizaciones miembros de la sociedad civil internacional y organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos condenamos enérgicamente la propuesta de reforma presentada por el grupo parlamentario ARENA al Código Penal en El Salvador./ We the undersigned civil society and women human rights defender (WHRD) organizations worldwide strongly condemn the proposal of the ARENA party to reform the Penal Code in El Salvador.