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
#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.
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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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