Ninuk Widyantoro was one of eleven people who founded the YKP Women’s Health Foundation in Indonesia in 2001. The founders established the [...]
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Safe Abortion
After two weeks of fierce negotiations at the United Nations’ annual Commission on the Status of Women, on March 15 more than 130 governments committed to ending violence against women and girls, and reached strong agreements to promote gender equality and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services.
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In this two-part blog series by IWHC’s Shannon Kowalski, she discusses how the proposal for “universal health coverage” in the next post-2015 development agenda falls short when it comes to women and adolescents.
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The International Women’s Health Coalition is centrally concerned with the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people. The following contribution focuses specifically on the challenges facing girls, who continue to experience systematic social, economic and political marginalization in every part of the world.
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We here at IWHC are thrilled that young people and adult allies spoke out in support of a bold and progressive vision for what the global community must do to achieve the largest generation ever of educated, empowered, safe, and healthy young people.
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An estimated 35,000 pregnancies occur every year in Peru as a result of rape. Women and girls are faced with two options: seek an illegal abortion and risk going to jail or carry the pregnancy to term.
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The last couple of days of the ICPD Global Youth Forum in Bali, Indonesia, have seen a flurry of around-the-clock activity by [...]
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The fall is in full swing and so are we at the International Women’s Health Coalition! We continue to push the U.S. [...]
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Last night, as midnight approached, Uruguay’s House of Representatives voted 50-49 to allow abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy. The [...]
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“And hey presto, I didn’t have to worry about getting pregnant!” – Marge Berer, Editor, Reproductive Health Matters I was among the [...]
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