Justice and Human Rights Philippines Project #30697

Raising our Voices: Global Campaigning for SRHR

by Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights

Raising our Voices: Global Campaigning for SRHR

Project Report | Nov 23, 2023
WGNRR Speaks Up!

By WGNRR Team | Communications Team

Dear partners and supporters,

Thank you for mobilizing with us during the September 28 International Safe Abortion Day. The Campaign Report is now being developed by the Campaign Working Group. Please share your activities with us and be featured in this year's Report. Email them to communications@wgnrr.org

We are also sharing highlights of the WGNRR activities these past months. Thank you for your continued support!

The WGNRR Team

September 28 Mobilizations

#SRHRActivistsinAction

WGNRR and Partners at Women Deliver 2023!

WGNRR and partners Anis – Instituto de Bioética, Fòs Feminista, Oxfam Canada, The YP Foundation and WGNRR Africa, among many more were at the Women Deliver Conference held in Kigali, Rwanda from July 17 to 20, 2023. We successfully shared the September 28 Call to Action, harnessed the power of storytelling to bust abortion stigma, engaged in a powerful dialogue on advancing reproductive justice against the anti-rights agenda, gave out SRHR swag, and engaged in countless panels – all in the promotion of #SRHR4ALL women, girls, and gender-diverse people. View all of our activities at WD2023 here.

Maximizing Human Rights Mechanisms Towards Gender-Just and People-Centered Development

WGNRR, United Nations Philippines, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines, and Council for People’s Development and Governance held the Utilizing Human Rights Mechanisms Towards Gender-Just and People-Centered Development. Joined by over 60 organizations from all over the Philippines, the capacity-building workshop broadened participants’ understanding of United Nations human rights mechanisms. CSOs developed indicators to monitor the Universal Periodic Review Recommendations for the Philippines, including progress in SRHR and the decriminalization of abortion.

Amplifying #SRHR4ALL on the airwaves: WGNRR Africa was on the radio!

WGNRR Africa had their first radio guesting at Abood FM, Morogoro where they talked all about their amazing work on the ground and introduced the Sauti Ya Vijana project in Morogoro and Iringa Regions. ICYMI: you can watch the recording of the session here.

International Youth Day: VCAT with Youth-led Volunteer Group, The Sunday Project

For International Youth Day we held VCAT session for the Sunday Project where we all went on a journey, exploring personal and community values around adolescent sexual and reproductive health and access to abortion and post-abortion care. The Sunday Project shared that VCAT sessions are crucial to deepening young people’s understanding of the SRHR situations in their contexts, including the situation of access to abortion and post-abortion care.

Defending and Promoting Reproductive Rights in Tanzania

WGNRR Africa, in partnership with Center for Reproductive Rights – Kenya, held a strategizing session with journalists, social media influencers, and experts in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), collectively known as reproductive rights defenders. The primary objective was to collaboratively review and enhance advocacy strategies, with a special focus on safeguarding and advancing reproductive rights within Tanzania.

The meeting concluded with a resounding commitment to advancing SRHR for all, particularly focusing on the issue of safe abortion for victims of rape, incest, sexual assault and defilement in Tanzania.

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Jul 26, 2023
WGNRR Speaks Up!

By WGNRR Team | Communications Team

Dear partners and friends,

Thank you for mobilizing during the May 28 International Day of Action for Women's Health. The 2023 actions from across the world highlighted the centrality of SRHR in advancing women's rights and gender equality. Together with young people, local governments, indigenous communities, and local women leaders we called on #SRHR4All.

WGNRR Team

WGNRR, partners, and CSOs from the region at the CSO Forum.

#SRHRActivistsInAction

Kaleidoscope Initiative: Organizations commit to advocate for transforming health systems toward ensuring safe abortion for all!

The Kaleidoscope Initiative, held in Benin, consultation concluded with a strong commitment to transforming the health system to ensure the right to safe abortion for women and girls in all their diversity. Kaleidoscope is a consortium consisting The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Global Fund for Women, Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) , and the MAMA Network. The initiative aims to enhance pregnant persons' access to safe abortion in select countries in Asia and Africa at scale.

#YouthFriendlyServicesFirst for May 28

WGNRR Africa, Bintimakini Foundation and BintiSalha Foundation celebrated the May 28 - International Day of Actions for Women’s Health at Sandali Ward, Temeke district in Dar-es-salaam. Young people, parents, health care providers, and local government authorities joined open dialogues and sketch sessions to bust SRHR stigma and promote youth-friendly safe spaces in the community. 150 reflectors with stigma-free SRHR key messages were distributed to Bodaboda (Motorcycles riders) of the Sandali Ward to not only spread awareness, but also ignite stigma-free conversations around SRHR wherever bodaboda go.

Seminar-workshop on menstrual and maternal health with indigenous women in the Philippines

28 Dumagat women joined the Hiyaw: Para sa Kalusugan (Shout for Health) Maternal and Menstrual Health Education Seminar-Workshop in General Nakar, Quezon Province Philippines. Alongside learning about reproductive health, the Dumagat women shared their experiences and indigenous practices in maternal and menstrual health management. This activity was held in partnership with the Asian Medical Students' Association-Philippines.

Women amplify calls for #SRHR4ALL at Women's Summits in the Philippines

For #May28 International Day of Action for Women's Health, WGNRR joins Mayon Integrated Development Alternatives and Services (MIDAS) at Women's Summits held in Masbate and Sorsogon in the Philippines! Community women engaged in SRHR and women's empowerment learning sessions and art workshops where they got a chance to make creative placards that promote #SRHR4ALL.

Youth ChangeMakers: Fight for health, rights, and justice!

Generation ChangeMakers: Young People’s Advocacy Bootcamp on Bodily Autonomy is a training program that provided interactive and participatory discussions on bodily autonomy and young people’s rights and issues, combined with workshops to build advocacy skills. Changemaker organizations from around the Philippines joined in on the 5-day activity and is on their way to develop a Young People's Manifesto on Bodily Autonomy! Stay tuned to WGNRR, the Young Advocates for SRHR, and the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (PINSAN) for more updates.

Interviews reveal that gender equality is essential to young people's empowerment toward access to SRH

WGNRR Africa has conducted a series of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with youth key informants from six wards in Iringa Municipal Council and four wards in Kilolo District Council. The assessment revealed some gaps in knowledge on young people's SRHR. It also surfaces persisting gender inequality that disempowers young people to access SRH information and services and advocate for positive policy changes. These evidence-gathering efforts are essential to developing capacity building tools under the Sauti ya Vijana project (SYV) of WGNRR Africa. Stay tuned for more!

Over 200 people participate in a forum for the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Bill

WGNRR in partnership with the Philippines' National Anti-Poverty Commission held the Public Forum on the APP Bill and was joined by over 200 members of civil society, community organizations, and government agencies. The Forum discussed the state of the APP Bill, the role of civil society and different government agencies, and programs within the Bill on addressing issues on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Young people shared recommendations on youth empowerment in areas of leadership in pushing for the APP Bill. For updates on the Bill and other legislative agenda, follow WGNRR.

Take action, amplify messages, and mobilize on

September 28 - International Safe Abortion Day

September 28 has been a regional campaign for the decriminalization of abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean for over twenty years before being taken on by SRHR activists all over the world in 2011. The campaign was formerly known as the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion.

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Mar 29, 2023
#SRHR4All is essential to gender equality

By Marevic Parcon | Executive Director

Dear WGNRR supporters,

I hope you had a meaningful Women's Month! Thank you for mobilizing with us toward advancing women's rights and gender equality!

The first quarter of the year has been eventful for us at WGNRR. We participated in the Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation for the 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. We joined Civil Society Organizations, UNESCAP Member States, and other key stakeholders in examining gaps to progress toward gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in Asia and the Pacific Region.

We went to New York for the CSW67, where we held parallel events with partners in SRHR work. On March 13, together with ARROW and Safe Abortion Advocacy Initiative Global South Engagement (SAIGE) we had a panel on “Leveraging Digital Innovations for Improving Access to Abortion,” where we stressed that decriminalizing abortion is paramount to ensuring services, including medical abortions are available and accessible, and technology and online spaces play a crucial role in this advocacy. On the 15th, we held “Pinky’s Choice - the power of music in telling the stories of women for gender equality” with Hidden Pockets Collective and Fos Feminista. We jammed out with feminists and activists through a Zumba dance to Pasya Music Album’s “Buo” (Whole), a song celebrating bodily autonomy. Feminists and activists took to the streets of New York in commemoration of International Women’s Day, demanding rights for migrant workers and all women, #SRHR4ALL, and to #StopTheAttacks against all women human rights defenders (WHRDs) such as #IamJustyna.

Towards SRHR and reproductive justice!

Last February 3, we were at the Kick-Off meeting of the Co-Impact supported multiregional initiative "Kaleidoscope" in Kenya. The initiative aims to focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights and justice in Benin, India, Kenya, and Nepal. The initiative is steered by The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), WGNRR, MAMA Network, and Global Fund for Women.

More than 200 Young People Gather to Raise Awareness and Bust Stigma on CSE

WGNRR Africa, IPAS alliance and Youth Collective Actions Now (YouCAN) Dar es salaam partners conducted an awareness-raising session and stigma reduction on access to comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) for young people. It was hugely successful, with nearly 250 students participating in fun activities, story-sharing, and learning exchanges at Kitunda primary school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Women’s Month 2023: #SRHR4All is essential to gender equality!

March was Women’s Month! For this year, we highlighted the centrality of promoting #SRHR4ALL to technology and digital innovation in achieving gender equality.

Read #SRHR4All is essential to gender equality (lttps://wgnrr.org/womens-month-2023-srhr4all-is-essential-to-gender-equality/)

WGNRR, Hesperian Apps - Reproductive Health, and Women on Web took over social media to highlight the importance of mobile and ICT tools to accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare and information, thus essential to the full realization of #SRHR4ALL. We went live on Instagram to discuss access gaps to technology and digital innovation and how this impacts access to SRH information.

WE NEED TO ACT FAST, WE NEED TO ACT NOW! As the Philippines commemorates Women’s Month, drawing on gender equality and inclusive society, advocates sound the alarm over HIV cases among adolescents. This is a stark reminder for the government to uphold its commitments to SRHR and gender equality.

Read our statement now: https://wgnrr.org/we-need-to-act-faster-and-we-need-to-act-now/

It was an honor to work alongside #SRHRActivistsInAction around the world. Let us continue to call for rights-based, gender-just online spaces and technological innovations that promote #SRHR4All, upholding people's right to bodily autonomy, privacy, and enjoyment of scientific progress, among all other human rights.

The WGNRR Team

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