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.
The HLPF is the central platform for the follow-up and review of Agenda 2030 at the global level. This year is the first HLPF session since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) last September 2015. With the theme “leave no one behind,” this year’s session will look at all 17 SDGs.
*A continuación en Español. As a network of more than 1000 members around the globe advocating, promoting and defending sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) would like to express our strong support for the decision of Judge Martín Rogel Zepeda to overturn the wrongful conviction of […]
We at WGNRR will continue to stand with Maria Teresa, #Las17, and la Agrupacion in the fight to ensure that #ElSalvador upholds its human rights commitments, and that Salvadoran women are no longer criminalized and wrongfully imprisoned on suspicion of having an abortion. Join us in showing support for Maria Teresa!
#LibertadParaLas17 #LibertadParaTeresa
Camille Van Kote is a third year law student at the University of Houston Law Center. She graduated from Barnard College in 2012. As an undergraduate, she worked as an AmeriCorps member for Jumpstart for Young Children and was involved with the Columbia Child Rights Group. Her first legal internship was at the Tahirih Justice […]
September 28 Global Day of Action website records the actions individuals, organizations and governments worldwide are taking to defend, protect and fulfil women’s right to accessible, safe and legal abortion. It offers resources and educational materials on abortion rights advocacy as well as equips activists with hands on materials for action taking. This website is […]
In light of the 2016 High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, the ICW Chapter for Young Women, Adolescents, and Girls (CYWAG) and the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) emphasize the need to place young women and girls living with HIV at the center of all strategies and responses to ending the epidemic. In particular, the full human rights of young women and girls living with HIV must be realized, including their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)!
