This September 28 – International Safe Abortion Day, join WGNRR and partners in spreading kindness. Make people who’ve had an abortion feel that you support them. Send them love notes, artworks, words of kindness and support, messages of affirmation and appreciation. Tell them that abortion is normal. That abortion is essential healthcare and that we […]
Last September 1, 2021, the US Supreme Court upheld the “Texas Heartbeat Act” which limits the availability of abortion services to those experiencing medical emergencies and only up to the point of the first detectable cardiac activity, erroneously defined by conservatives as the first “heartbeat”. This makes abortion impossible for many, including persons who become […]
Are you 15-21 years old?Are you interested to advocate for Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights?Do you have creative skills? (writing, visual design, etc.)Do you have access to a computer and internet at home? Apply now at: bit.ly/yas2021-onlinebootcampDeadline August 5, 2021, 4pm Selected participants will be provided with internet support and food stipend
This program is open for all Philippine-based women’s rights, youth-led and youth-focused, and other sectoral and community-based organizations. We will support organizations to enhance their advocacy capacities, access platforms for linking and learning and co-create advocacy and campaigns with other organizations. Together, through the program, we deepen our knowledge of SRHR and intersecting issues, improve our advocacy and influencing skills, and create a bigger impact for women and girls’ rights!
Menstrual health issues have not been given enough attention and remain to be unspoken topics surrounded by taboos, stigma, socio-cultural and religious restrictions, and isolation in Tanzanian society. In many cultures of the Tanzanian Society, menstruating women are considered impure and are excluded or restricted from participating in day-to-day public activities, such as education, some economic activities including employment, sports, cultural and religious events.his exclusion results to inequality, discrimination, and gender-based violence against menstruating women and girls; which have lasting implications throughout their life.
Civil society organizations from across the region have come together to voice our collective disappointment with the lack of representation and accessibility of the recent Generation Equality Forum (GEF), and to demand transparent and inclusive accountability processes for the Generation Equality commitments.
We are now accepting submissions for publication in the second issue of Pasya advocazine, stories, practices and perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the Philippines.
The theme of the second issue of Pasya advocazine is Intersections.
WGNRR together with Advocates for SRHR commits to support women and young people in Asia to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Through our advocacy strategies, we aim to increase the acceptability of SRH information and services, including CSE and access to contraceptives and safe abortion, encourage decision-making and bodily autonomy, and strengthen movements for SRHR in the region.
WGNRR Africa commits to work in partnership with partners in the region to coordinate collective actions to ensure laws, policies and practices enable young people and women and girls, including those with disabilities to have access to respectful, quality, youth-friendly and disability-sensitive sexual and reproductive health information and services by 2026.
