NGO and other statements for London Family Planning Summit

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. 

Championing Rights: Measuring Results

"What's a result in rights-based world?"

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.

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Dr Babatunde Osotimehin welcomes the London Summit on Family Planning

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.

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London Summit on Family Planning — Revised Overview for the Summit

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

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Building a Future for Women and Children: The 2012 Report

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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Message from the Chair: about the iERG open consultation with stakeholders

According to the Chair, Dr Richard Horton, the (Independent Expert Review Group) iERG open consultation with stakeholders on Thursday May 24 in Geneva at the time of the World Health Assembly at the World Council of Churches was an event that all the members of the iERG had been looking forward to for months. 

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Civil Society Declaration: Women’s human rights must be at the centre of the Family Planning Summit

Over 320 organizations, groups and individuals from more than 80 countries have endorsed the call for the Family Planning Summit and its organizers—the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID)—to pay greater attention to women’s human rights. 

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Tewodros Melesse, Director-General of the IPPF, blogs in the BMJ about the importance of access to reproductive health

In preparation for the Rio+20 summit, Tewodros Melesse, Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, blogs in the British Medical Journal about the importance of access to reproductive health

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London Summit on Family Planning — Revised Overview for the Summit

IPPF is circulating the information below and attached Revised Overview for the London Summit on Family Planning (previously referred to as FP2012 or the ‘Gold Moment)

“Many of you are interested in the progress of the London Summit on Family Planning. 

 Thank you  to  all who  submitted comments on the zero draft of the overview for the Summit, prepared by DFID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  The document has now  been revised, based on feedback – attached. 

 We would be grateful if you would please circulate widely to your networks.  Comments from CSOs should be directed to FP2012@ippf.org. 

IPPF is currently exploring options on how best to  consult civil society on this document at some point in the next week or two. 

Kind regards, IPPF”

The London Summit on Family Planning Outcome document is available for download here. 

Invitation for endorsements to the statement Rights must be at the centre of the Family Planning Summit

Please send any final endorsements by 9am NY time on Tuesday 12th June.

Dear all,

Amnesty International, the Center for Reproductive Rights, DAWN, the International Women's Health Coalition and RESURJ have prepared a statement Rights must be at the centre of the Family Planning Summit in advance of the DFID/Gates Family Planning Summit which will be held in London on 11 July 2012. We would like to invite you or your organization to endorse this statement (attached), which will be presented to the organisers prior to the Summit. 

For information, I have also attached the official zero draft of the Family Planning Summit Overview that was circulated to civil society stakeholders.

To endorse this statement, please send the following information to CRR’s Kate Meyer (kmeyer@reprorights.org):

• Name of organization or individual (please specify which)
• Country
• Name and email of contact person

Please also circulate this statement to your contacts and networks. The deadline for endorsements is Monday 11 June 2012. We will circulate the statement again after endorsements have been received.
 
Best wishes,
 
Louise Finer
Director of Global Advocacy
Center for Reproductive Rights

The Rights must be at the centre of the Family Planning Summit can be downloaded here in English, Spanish, and Portuguese