How can we use media to promote the abandonment of FGM? We discussed it with activists and journalists who use radio and video, reporting, and storytelling to tackle FGM. Moderated by Celine Fabrequette with: Charity Resian Nempaso, co-director of the film Against All...

The C20 Summit has taked place on October 5th, 6th and 7th with virtual 25 events promoted by the international civil society. On October 8th the Italian civil society will held an event with representatives of the Italian Government. Here the Final Communiqué at the...

Aidos seeks a consultant for the drafting of the Final International Stakeholder Dialogue (ISD) report, including among other the main promising practices and recommendations are drawn from the dialogue. Read and download the vacancy For further information about the...

AIDOS, GAMS Belgium and the End FGM European Network are organising an International Virtual Stakeholder Dialogue (ISD) on Gender transformative approaches to ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The International Stakeholder Dialogue (ISD) working groups will meet...

On August 26, in the framework of the G20 Italian presidency, a special conference on women’s empowerment took place in Santa Margherita Ligure, the first of its kind in G20 history. The agreed conclusions will be presented to the G20 leaders in sight of the final...

The military occupation of Afghanistan after two decades has failed. The Taliban returning to power potentially rolls back the gains of women and girls in Afghanistan. These events have shown the limits of militarized solutions in countries. Yet, there needs to be...

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...

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...