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Ishita Chaudhry at High-Level Task Force Global Launch
On 25 April 2013 the High-Level Task Force for ICPD organized an event to launch its policy recommendations for ICPD beyond 2014.The document, available here stresses the need for fulfillment of sexual and reproductive rights, achieving universal access to SRHR information, education and services, including safe abortion, provision of comprehensive sexuality education to young people [...]
Statement on Youth from Bonn Post-2015 Conference Open for Endorsements
Here you can read and sign the Session Statement On Securing A Decent Future For All Children, Youth and Adolescents prepared by a working group during the “Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda” conference in Bonn. The statement, prepared among others by members of RESURJ and Astra Youth network calls for access and good quality [...]
A Call from the Arab Caucus at the 57th Commission on the Status of Women
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, as represented in the Arab Caucus at the 57th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), are deeply concerned with the role of the leadership of our countries in the negotiations on the crucial issue of violence against women and girls. At this session, our governments are increasingly using [...]
Women’s Major Group Statement from Bonn Conference “Advancing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda”
WE WILL NOT BE MAINSTREAMED INTO A POLLUTED STREAM: FEMINIST VISIONS OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR ACHIEVING WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS AND GENDER EQUALITY IN THE 2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA[1] 21 March 2013, Bonn Statement We caution against developing another set of reductive goals, targets and indicators that ignore the transformational changes required to address the failure of [...]
RESURJ Welcomes 57th UN CSW Agreements on Ending Violence Against Women
On 15 March UN Member States gathered at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women adopted the Agreed Conclusions in which they have committed to ending violence against women and girls, promote gender equality, women’s empowerment, and ensure reproductive rights and access to sexual and reproductive health services. The two-week session [...]
OUR BODY, OUR RIGHTS!
TELL WORLD LEADERS: Protect our sexual and reproductive rights today and for the next generations! Sign the petition: https://campaigns.amnesty.org/actions/sexual-and-reproductive-rights
RESURJ Contributes to the Post-2015 Discussions
Young People and Inequalities – Recommendations for a Post-2015 Development Agenda By REALIZING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE (RESURJ)* Beginning at the age of nine or ten and continuing at least until the late teens, adolescents’ sexual thoughts, emotions, desires, attitudes, and behaviors develop rapidly. At the same time, young people experience rapid physical maturation [...]
RESURJ on Family Planning Summit in London
11 July, the World Population Day, was marked by the Family Planning Summit held in London by the UK government and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So far the charity was best known for its engagement in the fight with HIV/AIDS around the world but in April this year the Ms. Gates, a devout Catholic, [...]
RESURJ at UN Rio+20 Conference
RESURJ members took part in the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Read the analysis by Zonnibel Woods here and here Here is the final outcome document of Rio +20 is various languages http://www.uncsd2012.org/thefuturewewant.html Read the Women’s Major Group finanl statement on the outcomes of the conference Womens_Major_Group_Final_Stmt_Rio_Plus_20 See the video of the [...]
RESURJ at 45th UN CPD Session
45th meeting of the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD) which took place on 23-27 April 2012 adopted a landmark resolution on Adolescents and Youth, its first ever on this subject matter. The resolution provides a groundbreaking framework for action on the health and human rights of adolescents and youth (10-‐24). In addition, it [...]
