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EuroNGOs becomes Inspire
Following to a two-year transition process, EuroNGOs, the European NGOs for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Population and Development, is changing its name to Inspire. This two-year transition resulted in a redefinition of the...
read moreFacilitators Selected for 2019 HLPF Ministerial Declaration
The permanent representatives of Bahamas and Sweden were announced to serve as co-facilitators for the political declaration resulting from the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2019.
read more2018 revised Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings is now available!
The Inter‐Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises (IAWG) is pleased to share the revised Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings. The Field Manual, which has guided the field of sexual and reproductive...
read moreExperts call for end to global epidemic of femicide
In a joint statement issued ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and other UN and regional human rights experts call on all States and...
read moreUN Human Rights Committee affirmed that access to abortion and prevention of maternal mortality are Human Rights
On 30 October, the UN Human Rights Committee has adopted its General Comment on the Right to Life. It affirms that abortion is a human right and preventable maternal deaths violate the right to life which begins at birth.
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2018 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Activists campaigning against the use of rape as a weapon of war
Gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad are jointly awarded “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict” as stated by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
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UNFPA 2018 State of World Population Report
The global trend towards smaller families is a reflection of people making reproductive choices to have as few or as many children as they want, when they want. When people lack choice, it can have a long-term impact on fertility rates, often making...
read more2018 World Population Data Sheet is now available
The Population Reference Bureau has recently published its annual Data Sheet with a focus on changing age structures around the world and resulting consequences for policy-making and development. This publication provides the latest data on key...
read more28 September is coming soon - Normalising abortion: it’s part of our lives
As in past years, The Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion will be marked internationally by various activities on September 28. See what will be happening this year!
read moreRegistration open for 2019 UN Commission on the Status of Women
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019 with the priority theme “Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable...
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