The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an international campaign originating from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership in 1991. https://www.facebook.com/16DaysCampaign/about/
Great opportunity for adolescents and young people between the ages of 16 to 30 committed to #SRHR values! You can now apply to attend the Morocco Forum for Adolescent & Youth Human Rights on ‘Driving Sustainable Development’. Once selected, you will be fully funded to participate in this event.
Deadline for applications is 9 November 2016. Check out the details and country eligibility criteria here!
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.
