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Call for Endorsements: Civil Society Statement to ESCAP

August 18, 2014

Beijing +20 Civil Society Steering Committee of Asia-Pacific is calling organisations from the region to support its statement to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP).

Webinar: Why Youth-Friendly Post-Abortion Care? Reasons, Resources, & Realities

August 13, 2014

Please join the Postabortion Care (PAC) Consortium’s Youth-Friendly PAC Task Force on September 4th for a webinar: Why Youth-Friendly PAC? Reasons, Resources, & Realities. The webinar will provide the rationale for focusing on youth as a key population for PAC services; situate youth-friendly PAC within the context of the human rights framework and government commitments; describe programmatic interventions to improve youth access to quality PAC; and provide an overview of existing PAC Consortium resources related to youth-friendly PAC.

Hearing at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

August 12, 2014

Para Español ir abajo August 12th, 2014, will mark the second day of the Special Session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, held in Mexico City. With this opportunity, the Association of Citizens for the Legalization of Abortion, the Women’s Collective for Local Development, the September 28 Campaign, the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive […]

Speak Up for Young People’s SRHR – Join the International Youth Day Twitter Chat!

August 8, 2014

This August 12, the Youth Health and Rights Coalition (YHRC) is celebrating International Youth Day with a Twitter Chat from 12-1pm EST, to highlight why investing in the health and human rights of young people is key to achieving broad health and development goals. During the Twitter Chat they will discuss the sexual and reproductive health and rights […]

UNESCAP Committee on Social Development, Third Session

August 5, 2014

WGNRR as a member of the Civil Society Beijing +20 Steering Committee is participating in the meeting. Committee on Social Development, Third Session Organizers: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Date: 18 Aug 2014 to 20 Aug 2014 Location: Bangkok, Thailand The ESCAP Committee on Social Development was established to address […]

September 16 Global Female Condom Day

August 5, 2014

https://www.facebook.com/events/247288365383592/ The female condom has the potential to revolutionize safer sex for women and men around the world. Join HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and justice, women’s health, youth, and gay men’s health organization and advocates on September 12 to take action on Global Female Condom Day.Though a highly effective safe-sex option for women, men, and youth, most […]

September 28 Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion

August 5, 2014

September 28 Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion has its origin in Latin America and the Caribbean where women’s groups have been mobilizing around September 28 the last two decades to demand their governments to decriminalize abortion, to provide access to safe and affordable abortion services and to end stigma and […]