Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 6:44AM The World Health Organization (WHO) is contributing to this initiative at the highest levels. Dr Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General, will chair a panel on “increasing access and expanding choice” at which she will state the commitments of WHO.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 6:36AM Tomorrow’s Family Planning Summit in London will lay the groundwork for policy commitment and change at
the highest level in countries; such commitment and change will boost the operating environment for family
planning services. Civil society is uniquely advantaged: it has the leverage to sustain political commitment
through accountability mechanisms. It can also support policy change through targeted action.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 6:30AM At the Summit, Tewodros Melesse will talk about the how IPPF’s integrated services improve the health and wellbeing of women and girls. He will present alongside Ministers from Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sweden. His panel will begin at 10:35 and you can watch him via live streaming.
Contraceptives, IPPF Monday, July 9, 2012 at 9:57AM The Indonesian Government, in cooperation with UNFPA & other UN agencies, is hosting the Global Youth Forum (GYF) in Bali, Indonesia between 4-6 December 2012. It is the first of three identified thematic forums as part of the ICPD Beyond 2014 review process.
Steering Committee (SC) invitations were sent out by UNFPA to a number of organisations and institutions including SRHR NGOs, Youth SRHR groups, Funders, Private Institutions, and other UN agencies.
Young People Monday, July 9, 2012 at 9:48AM An informal briefing on ICPD Beyond 2014, co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Bangladesh, Colombia, Finland, Mozambique, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway and in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the NGO Committee on the Status of Women (NGO CSW), was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on 28 June 2014.
Friday, July 6, 2012 at 8:33AM The Civil Society Declaration to the London Summit on Family Planning has generated 1,292 signatures from 176 countries and will be published by the Financial Times on 9 July. Final text in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
A total of 327 signatures were received for the Women’s human rights must be at the centre of the Family Planning Summit Civil Society Declaration, submitted in English Spanish and Portuguese.
A statement on Integrating our efforts to raise the bar for women’s health through: rights, access, investment, security, equity has been jointly submitted by the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development and the UK Network on Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights
Members of the UK Network on Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights have also issued a statement emphasizing that the human right of a woman to decide when and if she becomes pregnant has long been neglected and under-resourced.
Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 8:10PM In a world in which donors are increasingly oriented towards accountability and “results-based financing”, it becomes ever more important to ensure that the results we define encompass fully informed choice from a range of sexual and reproductive health services that respect and protect rights.
Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 8:06PM Dr Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA has welcomed the London Family Planning Summit stating that family planning needs to be much further up the international agenda and the Summit should help to achieve this.
Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 7:59PM The Summit will call for unprecedented global political commitments and resources that will enable 120 million more women and girls to use contraceptives by 2020, with partners working closely together across a range of areas
Friday, June 22, 2012 at 7:48AM The 2012 Report, Building a Future for Women and Children Countdown was launched by Countdown on June 14, 2012 during a two-day high-level meeting in Washington, DC. Convened by the governments of the U.S., Ethiopia, and India in collaboration with UNICEF, the meeting charted a course toward the end of preventable child deaths around the world.
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