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SRHR Campaigns:
Framing the Post-2015 Agenda:
SRHR as HR
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WGNRR at Global and Regional SRHR Events
Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs)
WGNRR Member in Action
Events, Resources & Opportunities
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All September WGNRR was busy with preparations and activities for September 28, Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. We are delighted with the outcome of the September 28 Campaign as thousands of activists in more than 50 countries spoke out against abortion stigma and demanded access to safe and legal abortion! For an overview of September 28 actions worldwide, please CLICK HERE.
We hope you will enjoy the newsletter!
In solidarity,
WGNRR Team
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SRHR Campaigns
Information about WGNRR's campaigns, allies' campaigns & calls for solidarity
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Call for SRHR Youth Advocates!
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Young Women’s SRHR International Youth Advocate
Women living with HIV, especially young women, experience significant obstacles when exercising their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and frequently report worldwide abuses and violations of their sexual and reproductive rights, within their families, healthcare settings and communities.
Through the support of Stop AIDS NOW!, ICW and WGNRR are undertaking a joint project in Nigeria. We are looking for interested, committed, and mobilized SRHR and HIV youth advocates from ICW’s Chapter of Young Women and Adolescent Girls (CYWAG) and WGNRR’s member organizations to form a team of 20 national and international youth advocates who will develop and implement a global campaign strategy spring-boarding from the Nigeria case, during a face-to-face meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, on February 3-4, 2015.
If you are a young woman under 30, from Latin America & the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe, or the Middle East and North Africa, we encourage you to apply!
*Young women living with HIV are strongly encouraged to apply.*
Deadline for all applications: 5:00pm EST November 21, 2014
For more information, please CLICK HERE.
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September 28 in El Salvador
 To commemorate this past September 28, WGNRR jointly hosted and organized with regional and national partners a panel event in El Salvador, to raise awareness of the human rights violations resulting from the complete ban on abortion in the country. The panel featured a variety of international and local activists and advocates,  including Luz Patricia MejÃa, Coordinator of the Belém do Pará Convention Follow up Mechanism of the Inter American Commission for Women (MESECVI). The panelists touched upon a variety of issues including abortion stigma, the impact on women’s health resulting from the criminalization of abortion, human rights violations stemming from total ban of abortion in El Salvador, and civil society’s efforts to address these violations, among others.
Event partners and participants also called for the freedom of “Las 17,†17 Salvadoran women wrongfully incarcerated on suspicion of having an abortion, some of whom are serving up to 40-year sentences. Following the event, WGNRR Advocacy and Programme Manager Vanessa Coria and Advocacy Officer Lara Cousins, along with Luz Patricia and regional partners, had the opportunity to visit some of the women in prison.  WGNRR Advocacy Officer Lara Cousins recounted the visit: “It was a very, very tough visit.  Women who are imprisoned on suspicion of abortion are treated terribly by other prisoners, as they are seen as “baby killers.† We chatted the most with Maria Teresa, who is 31 years old, and 3 years into a 40 year sentence, as well as Kenia, who is 19 years old and just began a 30 year sentence. All of the women we spoke with were visibly buoyed by the work that local activists have been doing for Las 17, and definitely seem to take strength from knowing that people are working to help them. Though the visit was a really difficult experience, it was also very moving, and everyone who visited re-committed themselves to advocating for Las 17, and challenging the abortion ban in El Salvador.â€
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WGNRR Joins Activists Worldwide Calling on Ireland to Ensure Abortion Rights
On October 28, the International Day of Action for Abortion Rights in Ireland, in solidarity with Irish women’s rights activists and in commemoration of the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, WGNRR delivered a STATEMENT to the Irish Consulate in Metro Manila (Philippines), calling for the repeal of the Eighth Amendment in the Irish Constitution. In equating the right to life of a pregnant woman with that of an embryo or foetus, the Eighth Amendment criminalizes abortion in all cases except where there is a “real and substantial risk†to the woman’s life. However, as the tragic death of Savita demonstrates, this exception does not stop women from dying as a result of being denied access to safe, legal, and affordable abortion services.
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Calls for Action and Solidarity
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Speak out against Gay 'Cure' in China
Thousands of people in China are suffering in fake clinics that claim they can cure being gay. Sign an online PETITION started by Xiao Zhen, an LGBT activist who was subjected to the gay 'cure', calling on
Dr. Margaret Chan, the head of the World Health Organization, to condemn anti-gay 'cures' and convince China officials to ban them. (Photo credit: All Out)
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Framing the Post-2015 Agenda
WGNRR's work to push for SRHR in the Post-2015 agenda, as well as helpful information on the New Development Agenda process for SRHR organizations
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WGNRR CSW59 Statement
In this year's STATEMENT WGNRR welcomed the Commission's focus on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and drew its attention to the unfulfilled sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls, noting that human rights violations stemming from women and girls’ unmet SRHR are unacceptably common worldwide. WGNRR provided recommendations for the agreed conclusions of the CSW59, including reaffirming SRHR as human rights, eradicating all forms of violence and discrimination, and ensuring the incorporation of the Beijing Platform for Action and outcome documents of the Beijing+20 review conferences into the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
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Asia-Pacific CSOs Discuss Beijing+20
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