In response to the recent decision of the Dominican Republic´s Chamber of Deputies to adopt a bill that upholds the country’s absolute ban on abortion, and maintains the criminalization of abortion in all cases, WGNRR sent a letter to the President of the Dominican Republic calling on him to veto the bill.
Addis Ababa Declaration is an outcome document of the 9th African Regional Conference on Women organised to review the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). By adopting this declaration African states committed among other things to invest in sexual and reproductive health and rights, to expand provision of family planning services […]
Feminist grassroots organization Taller Salud is focused on education and prevention in the areas of sexual and reproductive rights in Puerto Rico and celebrated this year its 35th anniversary. Established in 1979 as the first feminist organization in Puerto Rico, it’s main goal was to stop the massive sterilization processes that were performed on women of low income.
This World AIDS Day, the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW)’s Chapter for Young Women, Adolescents, and Girls (CYWAG), and the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) are emphasizing the need to realize the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls living with HIV!
In a press statement civil society organizations from across the Asia Pacific region expressed their disappointment at the regressive outcomes document agreed to by the States. They questioned the lack of progressive language on sexual rights and on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). CSOs also reiterated the need for accountability and financial and political will to ensure States’ commitments under the BPfA, including ensuring that these commitments are included in the post 2015 development agenda.
On November 25, the Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women, submit letters to the embassies of seven countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, where abortion is completely prohibited and penalized demanding that governments ensure access to safe and legal abortion.
WGNRR’s Asia Programme Officer, Marevic Parcon, delivered a statement of Asia-Pacific CSOs during the review of the progress and remaining challenges in implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Asia and the Pacific at the Asian and Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing +20 Review. The CSO statement calls […]
The CSO statement is an outcome document of the Civil Society Forum that gathered more than 400 CSOs from across Asia-Pacific to call on the governments for accountability for the commitments made almost twenty years ago in the Beijing to advance gender equality and the rights of women and girls.
