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C20 – L20 Joint Statement on TRIPS Waiwers
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...
Dynamics of a Social Norm: Female Genital Mutilation
What is female genital mutilation? What is a social norm? What is gender inequality? What is the role of law reforms? Which are the processes leading to social changes? These are some of the questions we try to answer with four animated videos on female genital...
UN sexual and reproductive health agency welcomes USA intention to reinstate funding
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,...
Preventing and Responding to Female Genital Mutilation in Emergency and Humanitarian Contexts
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....
Nairobi Summit anniversary
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”, AIDOS presents the new UNFPA 2020 Report.
“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...
Supporting UNFPA and women’s health now and after the Covid-19 emergency
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...
Aidos launches first national Contraception Atlas
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...
Valentine’s Day to say no to child marriage. Let’s help girls to say: NO, I DON’T
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...
How to talk about FGM: a mini-guide for a different narrative
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 Atlas: The situation in Europe
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...
A gender approach to communication: A workshop for journalists
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...
AIDOS and the All-Party Parliamentary Group at WOMEN DELIVER
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,...
Color accounting: AIDOS organizes a training course in Jordan
The training course for trainers on the Color Accounting method has recently begun in Aqaba, at the business incubator of the Noor Al Hussein Foundation (NHF). A method of teaching the fundamentals of business and accounting that abandons the traditional...
Events

Sexual and gender-based violence in the context of migration in the Mediterranean region
WEBINAR Sexual and gender-based violence in the context of migration in the Mediterranean region 11 December, 10.00 am Migrants and asylum seekers are subjected to several forms of sexual and gender-based violence. Professionals working in reception systems must be...

Una politica di sistema per l’infanzia nel mondo
20 novembre 2020 – h. 15.00 in diretta dalla pagina Facebook In occasione della Giornata Mondiale dell’Infanzia, il 20 novembre in diretta dalla Pagina Facebook di ForumSaD, prenderà il via il primo di tre incontri online sul tema dell’infanzia, all'interno degli...