The C20 Gender Working Group calls on the G20 Italy leaders to move beyond the emergency-based logic of pandemic preparedness and resilience and keep in mind the concept of the right to health putting women and girls at the center of health policies, ensuring a gender...
28 April 2021 Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, has been informed that the Government of the United Kingdom intends to implement an approximate 85 per cent cut to UNFPA...
Civil 20, Labour 20 and Youth 20 raise together their voices to jointly call G20 governments to take full responsibility for ensuring the rights of all women and girls. Download the statement: C20_L20_Y20_Statement_Istanbul_Convention Preventing and combating violence...
A strong action is urgent to make vaccines and treatments accessible for all! Civil 20 and Labour 20 raise together their voices to jointly call G20 for supporting the waiver of TRIPS agreement on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Read here the C20-L20 TRIPS...
UN sexual and reproductive health agency welcomes USA intention to reinstate funding: millions of women and girls will benefit New York / Washington DC, 28 January 2021 - The President of the United States today announced his intention to restore US funding to UNFPA,...
Between October and November 2020, 76 experts from 44 organisations in 31 countries and 5 world regions gathered online to participate in multiple virtual stakeholder dialogue sessions in the run-up to the FGM Donors Working Group meeting on 16-17 November 2020....
A year ago today, 8,300 delegates from 170 countries gathered on Nairobi to face and recommit to the goals set forth at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994. The milestone conference declared reproductive and sexual...
“Against my will” Defying the practices that harm women and girls and undermine equality Press release AIDOS – Associazione italiana donne per lo sviluppo (Italian Association for Women in Development), UNFPA – United Nations Population Fund, and DiRE – Agenzia di...
Covid-19 is affecting millions of people in the whole world, however is evident, now more than ever, that women and girls are particularly exposed to various risk factors that need to be addressed urgently. Consequences could be catastrophic: the increasing pressure...
ROME - In the European Contraception Atlas of 2019, Italy ranked 26th out of 46 countries. AIDOS has decided to take a further step forward on the Atlas and create its own regional contraception atlas for Italy, launched today. The Italian Atlas highlights huge...