Save the Date’ for an event IPPF is hosting with our partners at FIGO, ICM, Ipas, and MSI on 5 April, during World Health Worker Week (April 4 – 8, 2022). The event will formally launch a global project to strengthen action, support and human rights protection for those defending sexual and reproductive health and […]
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5th Annual Scientific Hybrid Conference on Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights 2022 Conference
21st – 24th June, Mombasa, Kenya – Reproductive Health Network, Kenya
Taking Stock of Comprehensive Sexuality education – Tuesday 29 March
The links between gender inequality and norms around girls’ sexuality are central to child marriage practices. The Child Marriage Research to Action Network (the CRANK) is holding its first research meeting of 2022 to discuss the links between girls’ sexuality and child marriage. The meeting will be held in English, with simultaneous translation in […]
PPFA and IPPF Embracing Decolonialist and anti-racist approaches in SRHR
IPPF’s Anti-Racism Programme of Action has kicked off at the secretariat level. External Relations Director, Mina Barling, ACRO Deputy Director, Dona Da Costa Martinez and Rayana Rassool, IPPF’s lead for Communications and Change had a webinar with the PPFA team to explore the various strategies and approaches being used by the two organisations to tackle […]
Opening of our office in Colombia!
We are very pleased to announce the opening of one of our locations at IPPF ACRO. On Monday, March 14, we gave this new stage in the city of Bogotá, Colombia along with the team and with the visit of Álvaro, Mina and Dona. You can see here the links in Spanish and English of […]
IPPF’s DG Alvaro Bermejo meets key partners and donors
As the world gets back to a new normal where travel is once again on the agenda, IPPF’s DG Alvaro Bermejo took time out to meet and advance partnerships with significant partners, donors and stakeholders in trip to Canada, America and Colombia. After two years of harsh lockdowns with COVID and some funding setbacks IPPF […]
Failure to Permanently Repeal the Global Gag Rule (GGR) means we need to fight on!
Despite the inclusion of language to permanently repeal the global gag rule passed in the House and introduced in the Senate, the final legislation fails to permanently end the harmful policy that has destroyed the lives of women and girls around the world for so many years. It also does not remove discriminatory abortion bans […]
FPAI Director, Kalpana Apte takes the lead for Women!
Kalpana Apte exudes passion when she advises young women working in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR). “They must be committed to human rights as a priority,” says Apte, Director-General of the Family Planning Association of India (FPAI). “It should not be seen as a professional option or a job but a […]
Strategy 2028
Draft 1 of our new strategy Draft 1 of our next strategy is almost ready, and will be shared on 11 March. Draft 1 has not yet been viewed by the IPPF Board. It is a pre-board draft. The Board will view the draft only on 10 March 2022. Writing Team The draft was written […]