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This September 28, the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, WGNRR is calling on our members, partners and allies to #BustTheMyths surrounding abortion and fight #AbortionStigma and discrimination!

Join us in emphasizing the positive realities derived from access to safe and legal abortion, the beneficial changes at individual, communal, and societal levels that abortion access has brought about in countries worldwide, and the importance of abortion as an essential social good and a human right!

El Salvador has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world, with abortion criminalized in all cases, even when the woman’s life or health is at risk, or in cases of rape or incest. One of the most serious consequences of the total ban is the incarceration and wrongful imprisonment of numbers of women who have suffered pregnancy-related complications and miscarriages. The total ban has also fed and perpetuated the widespread proliferation of abortion-related stigma. Produced, reproduced and reinforced at individual, community, institutional, cultural, and legal levels, abortion stigma has particularly grave impacts in restrictive settings, not only on those who may seek an abortion or are suspected of having an abortion, but also on WHRDs who work to defend sexual and reproductive rights.

Smriti Thapa, WGNRR member in Nepal, blogged about the menstrual taboo. In some societies, including Nepal, menstruation is perceived as unclean and embarrassing, extending even to the mention of menstruation both in public (in the media and advertising) and in private (amongst the friends, in the household, and with men). Menstruating women are considered to be unpure and are banished from their homes for days.

La Directora de Incidencias y Programas de la Red Mundial de Mujeres por los Derechos Reproductivos (WGNRR por sus siglás en inglés) envió una carta al Presidente de Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, instando al Estado costarricense a cumplir la sentencia emitida por la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH)  respecto la regulación que permita la realización de […]

We at WGNRR align ourselves with the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) in their statement of support for Amnesty International´s Resolution and draft policy. The proposed policy is evidence-based, grounded in human rights and harm reduction principles, and was developed through a process of meaningful consultation with sex workers themselves. We see it as an important step forward in developing policies that effectively contribute to better safeguards for sex workers, and in turn protect their human rights, including their rights to self-determination, privacy, health, to work and free choice of employment, to associate and organize, and to be free from violence and discrimination, among others.

WGNRR is deeply saddened by the loss of passionate fighter and gender justice activist Gigi Francisco, whose life was dedicated to defending women’s human rights and advancing social justice. Her death on July 22 2015 is a source of great sadness to women’s rights activists around the world.

More than Our Status! Our Bodies! Our Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights! July 20th 2015 #DoYouSeeHIV Campaign launch! Using the backdrop of the final session of the Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations, the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW) and the Women’s Global Network on Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) are kicking off the #DoYouSeeHIV advocacy […]

The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) welcomes the decision made by Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, the outgoing President of Nigeria to sign into law the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, which prohibits, among other things, female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM) and other harmful traditional practices.[1] As a global network of more than […]