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In its 2023 Concluding Observations, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reiterated its recommendations to the Philippine government on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Specifically, the Committee called for improving women’s access to antenatal, perinatal, and postnatal health services to reduce the high rates of maternal mortality, including by training midwives and other relevant health professionals, especially in rural areas. The Committee also recommended providing adequate access to sexual and reproductive health services and information, including family planning, modern forms of contraception, and safe abortion & post-abortion services for women and girls, including those who are located in rural areas, unmarried, and women and girls with disabilities. 

WGNRR is seeking the service of consultants from the Global South to conduct an independent study of WGNRR work over the past 40 years.  

The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people as they resist militarism, imperialism, and settler colonization. We firmly denounce the grave violation amounting to gross war crimes, including severe infringements on their human rights, among which are sexual and reproductive health and rights. We demand an end to Israel’s regime of colonial apartheid, inhumane siege, and blockade on Gaza. The time has come to put an end to the collective suffering inflicted upon civilians in Gaza.

The Oral Statement on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Justice was co-developed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, EnGendeRights, NoBox Philippines, NOVEL, Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network, and STRAP Kababaihan. It was presented by WGNRR’s Youth SRHR Officer, Danica Shahana Magtubo on October 9, 2023.

Across the world, women human rights defenders (WHRDs) continue to be harassed, threatened, convicted, and killed by state and non-state forces, despite state obligations to ensure their protection and to create an enabling environment for their work. This is especially the case for WHRDs defending abortion rights, who face fundamentalist opposition forces and are targeted in […]

This #Sept28 – International Safe Abortion Day, around the world and in our communities we will mobilize as an #UnstoppableMovement, working in #AbortionSolidarity to fight for access to safe and legal abortions for all. 

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This May 28 International Day of Action for Women’s Health, SRHR activists and allies take action, mobilize, and amplify demands for realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights, and justice. Let us stay firm in our resolve and assert stronger that #WomensHealthMatters and demand #SRHR4ALL!

This May 28, we highlight that an attack on SRHR anywhere attacks all our rights everywhere. Therefore, addressing these critical issues is a matter of globally concerted efforts, multisectoral and intersectional collaboration, and seeking accountability on a global scale. May 28 is also a time to celebrate and take encouragement from the hard-fought gains in health and SRHR won by social movements worldwide.

These attacks and regressions are not deterrents to us but instead, fuel our mobilization as we stand firm. We are stronger and louder when we come together, in solidarity with women and girls and our allies across the world – be it in celebration of their gains or the continuing struggle for the full realization of #SRHR4ALL.

Advance SRHR! Persist in the face of regressions!