This first ever issue of Pasya discusses critical SRHR issues and challenges that have surfaced as a result of COVID-19 and highlights the responses of SRHR activists, women’s rights organizations, and grassroots communities to the issues and challenges they have faced.
Abortion up to 14 weeks of pregnancy is now legal in Argentina, a watershed moment in a majority Catholic country in a region with some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws. WGNRR joins our compañerxs in joy and solidarity on this most recent win. You inspire us to do the same in the countries […]
WGNRR, together with Resurj, Satuvisi Indonesia, Hidden Pockets Collective, and People’s Health Movement, will be conducting an online discussion series on Young People, Reproductive Justice, and Abortion Rights on November 27, December 3, 7, and 10 from 17:00-18:30 PHT.
Background The Sexual Health and Empowerment (SHE) project seeks to empower women and girls to secure their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It will improve knowledge and awareness of sexual reproductive health and rights, particularly among women and girls, including the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV); strengthen health systems and community structures to […]
The island of Luzon in the Philippines has been badly hit by typhoons Rolly (international name: Goni) and Ulysses (international name: Vamco). These typhoons have resulted in floods that have been able to submerge entire communities in Bicol Region, Metro Manila, and now, following the overflow of Magat Dam, Cagayan Valley. As rescue operations continue […]
The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights stands in solidarity with women and abortion rights activists in Poland that have fought against and continue to fight the near-total ban on safe abortion services in the country that results from the Constitutional Tribunal decision to reverse laws permitting abortion in cases of severe fetal disabilities.
Pasya aims to collect and share learnings and advocacy practices, and amplify the stories and demands of women, girls, and other vulnerable and marginalized groups. The first issue of Pasya will focus on SRHR in the time of COVID-19.
We invite you to contribute an essay, opinion article, feature article or study results in line with our theme. Please send your abstracts or proposals to (200-500 words) to office@wgnrr.org by September 15, 2020.
Contrary to the message of the “Geneva Consensus Declaration”, we believe that multilateral spaces should continue to affirm the highest standards when it comes to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health and rights, which includes access to safe and legal abortion. Meanwhile, states have the obligation to respect, protect, and fulfill these rights as inalienable and indivisible from our human rights.
