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Governments need to address the failures of the last 20 years and have a holistic, forward-looking, and relevant development agenda post-2015, we believe Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) must be central to the goals and targets and go beyond a very narrow reflection of SRHR as “maternal healthcare” or “reproductive health” only. Human rights must be explicitly referenced, with the understanding that any meaningful efforts towards sustainable development must posit people as the drivers of development rather than passive receivers of aid priorities and programming.

WGNRR and ICW Global calls its members, allies and partners to demand during on December 1, World AIDS Day the inclusion of SRHR of women and girls living with HIV in the post 2014-2015 development agenda. The global commitment towards “Get to Zero” will only be realised when the women and girls living with HIV are visible, recognised and not treated as criminals and second-class citizens.

WGNRR calls its members, allies and partners to demand during the 16 Days of Action Campaign the inclusion of women’s SRHR and protection of WHRD in the post 2014-2015 development agenda as to eliminate Violence against Women and fulfil states’ commitments to the Human Right all over the world.

On October 5 2013 the international community of birth rights defenders, women’s rights activists and advocates for women’s sexual and reproductive rights mark a sad three year anniversary of Agnes Geréb’s confinement. Quoting the statement by Donal Kerry, the International spokesperson for the Campaign for Justice for Dr. Agnes Geréb “Three years in confinement is a very long time. Three years in confinement when you have done nothing wrong is a very, very long time.”

As civil society feminists and women actors, we articulate our voices and efforts through activism, to promote and guarantee the exercise of Human Rights, sexual rights and reproductive rights, as well as for peace and violence-free lives, by searching for economic and social alternatives to ensure social justice.

We are taking selfies to a whole new level. Sexual and reproductive health and rights organizations and activists from 50 countries contributed photos and messages on why abortion should be safe and legal in their country.

We congratulate the Nigeria SRHR movement for pushing for it and the Imo State House of Assembly with its successful enactment. This victory is an advance for women not only in Imo state, but in Nigeria as a whole.

We need to hold governments accountable to their existing commitments, and continue to take action to ensure that national policies effectively guarantee access to safe, legal, affordable, accessible, high quality, youth friendly abortion services, along with information about how to locate and access such services. It is also vital that this existing commitment on access to safe and legal abortion be included in the outcomes and recommendations of the ICPD, MGD review processes that will inform the development of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post2014-2015 development agenda.