Written by Marie Tempesta, Advocacy Advisor IPPF EN As December started, many of us in Europe were probably all looking forward to celebrating Christmas with our loved ones, hoping this year would allow COVID-free celebrations, hugs and many people around the table. However, the arrival of the Omicron variant have us rethinking our plans. It must […]
Regional News
A Huge Victory for LGBTIQ+ Equality in Botswana: Court Upholds Ruling Decriminalizing Same-Sex Relationships
Nairobi, 30 November 2021 – The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the Botswana Family Welfare Association (BOFWA) celebrate and welcome Botswana’s Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold a 2019 ruling that decriminalized same-sex relationships. On Monday 29 November 2021, five judges from the Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that criminalising same-sex relationships was a violation […]
Historic Moment for Benin as New Law Legalizing Abortion Adopted
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) welcomes the news of abortion law reform in Benin. On 20 October 2021, the Benin National Assembly voted to significantly widen the conditions under which women and gender non-confirming people can legally access abortion care. The new law will now allow women and gender non-conforming people to end their pregnancy within the […]
IPPF making waves at COP26
As delegates from 2021 UN Climate Change Conference or COP 26 head home this week from Glasgow in Scotland there are some positives emerging from the meeting. More than 30-thousand delegates attended – representing governments, business, NGOs, faith groups and more had one goal for this conference – to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees […]
Africa Youth Month: Taking Stock of Africa’s Commitments to Young People
1st November 2021 By Anita Nyanjong and Claudia Lawson. It is now slightly more than 15 years since the Assembly of the Heads of States of the African Union adopted the Africa Youth Charter in Banjul, The Gambia. Although this Charter provides a strategic framework towards consolidating an approach for the enforcement of meaningful youth involvement in […]
FPAM REACHES NKHATABAY MOUNTAINOUS RURAL WITH CERVICAL CANCER SERVICES
Source : Family Planning Association Of Malawi https://www.fpamalawi.org/index.php/news/172-fpam-reaches-nkhatabay-mountainous-rural-with-cervical-cancer-services Written by Andrew Bishop Mkandawire. The numbers of women screened and referred for cervical cancer treatment to Nkhatabay district hospital and FPAM mobile clinics in hard to reach areas of Nkhatabay district have been on the increase if we are to compare the period 2020 Jan–March during […]
Secretariat Staff
New Staff in the Americas and Caribbean Region, and a new Washington-based Lead of US Partnerships and Fundraising Americas and Caribbean Staff Profiles (download below) The IPPF Americas and Caribbean Regional Offices (ACRO), which are located in Bogota, Colombia as well as Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, have recruited new staff. To see who […]
EN News
Spring 2021 Spotlight (covering the period from February to May) Global Updates IPPF warns that millions of vulnerable women and girls will pay the price for catastrophic budget cuts We are deeply saddened that one of the strongest European champions of SRHR has been fundamentally undermined by a government lacking any moral compass. Please read the […]
ACRO Directors
IPPF is pleased to announce the appointment of Eugenia Lopez Uribe as Regional Director and Dona Da Costa Martinez as Deputy Regional Director of the Americas and Caribbean. They will be based in the Americas and the Caribbean Regional office (ACRO), based in Bogota, Colombia and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, respectively. IPPF would […]
IPPF IN THE NEWS
Our weekly round-up brings you external communications news and content. International News Why is the UK slashing its international aid budget? – Guardian Today in Focus podcast (13.05.21) Boris Johnson says he has to cut international aid because of Covid, but is that really what it’s all about? The impact around the world can barely be […]