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...
Currently, there are hundreds of millions of women and girls that were forced to get married when they were still children. Child marriage forces girls to leave schools, denying them the opportunity to get an education. In addition, early pregnancy is one of the most...
AIDOS, together with the Network EndFGM, has created a mini-guide “HOW TO TALK ABOUT FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM)”, an agile, short but complete on how to talk about female genital mutilation (FGM) with sensitivity, respect and in a non- stigmatizing way. It’s a...
Cervical Cancer Prevention Policy Atlas Every year, over 25,000 women die from cervical cancer in Europe HPV vaccine almost 100% effective in preventing the persistent HPV infections that cause cervical cancer All 46 countries need to do more to put an end to...
How the Italian press and television address gender issues, such as gender violence, femicide or female genital mutilation? Is the Italian language sexist or instead is sexist the way of use it? What are the gender stereotypes in the Italian media context? These were...
It ends today in Vancouver WOMEN DELIVER 2019, the world’s largest conference on gender equality and the health, rights, and wellbeing of girls and women. Over 8.000 people, including activists, representatives of civil society and of the academic world,...