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...

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...

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,...

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...