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We congratulate the Mozambican SRHR movement for its advocacy, networking, and mobilization efforts related to the new legislation, the National Assembly for approving the bill, and the President for signing it into law. This victory is huge step forward for women not only in Mozambique, but in Africa as a whole, as it embodies a strong commitment to respect, protect, and fulfill women and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights, including their right to health, physical and psychological integrity, and bodily autonomy.

The CSO Forum provided an opportunity for CSOs from the Asia and the Pacific region to consolidate their key demands and to strategize on how to best make the governments accountable for the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action as well as putting forward new commitments on gender equality and women’s rights. More than 450 women activists, feminists, and other CSO representatives from the region came together to call for accountability of governments and to influence the Beijing +20 review processes.

Wendy is a Doctor in Political Sciences, graduated at the University of Berlin, Germany. She has worked during 13 years as project coordinator in the field of Media and Communication for organiztions like Mercedes-Benz, the European Union and the Konrad Adenaer Foundation. She was also an external consultant for Transparency International and the World Bank. […]

Marisol has extensive experience working on human rights issues from an intersectional feminist perspective.  She is the Campaigns and Communications Coordinator at WGNRR, and focuses on creating campaigns that lead to behavioral change with new technologies and social media focusing on stigmatized issues. Together with a group of other young feminist activists she worked in the #YoungFeministVisions […]

The Young Leaders Program is a three-year fellowship program for young people (under the age of 30) who are passionate about sexual and reproductive health and rights. While the total time required to fully participate in the Young Leaders Program depends on the individual, Young Leaders should expect to commit an average of up to 10 hours a week.
http://www.womendeliver.org/deliver-for-youth/?youngleaders

Award-winning documentaries & vignettes that support reproductive freedom

  Important Dates: Preregistration: 12 November 2014 – 31 March 2015 Written statement: 12 November 2014 – 12 December 2014 Oral statement: by 10 April 2015 Online Pre-registration using CSO Net is NOW OPEN – it will close on Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Due to space constraints, a maximum of 5 representatives of each organization is permitted to […]

The fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 March 2015. Representatives of Member States , UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs)  from all regions of the world attend the session. Themes The main focus of the session will be […]