News
C20 – L20 – Y20 Statement. Preventing and combating violence against women and girls and domestic violence
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...
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....
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Filmer le pont”. Building Bridges between Africa and Europe to stop FGM. Photogallery
Training workshop "Filmer le pont" for the production of videos on FGM organized in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in the framework of the project “Building Bridegs” between Africa and Europe to stop FGM. Phase I implemented as part of the Joint UNFPA-UNICEF program for...
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...
What are sexual and reproductive health and rights?
What are sexual and reproductive health and rights? A bit of history The topic of sexual and reproductive health and rights has followed a long process and has been at the centre of international debate for several years now. After the UN International...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
“Filming the Bridge”. Building Bridges between Africa and Europa to stop FGM. Photogallery
Training workshop "Filming the Bridge" for the production of videos on FGM organized in Kampala (Ouganda) on July 2017 in the framework of the project “Building Bridges between Africa and Europe to stop FGM. Phase I” implemented as part of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint...
Events
#AWorldWhere global access to sexual and reproductive health and rights is a reality – campaign launch
Join Aidos and Countdown 2030 on Instagram on June 13 at 4 pm CET, to launch our new campaign #AWorldWhere together with Liana Abdikarimova, IPPF EN youth activist, MEP Alice Kuhnke and Bénédicte Joan, a feminist activist from the Ivory Coast. We believe we are...
8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The Case for Rights and Choices
AIDOS and UNFPA launch the State of the World Population 2023 report "8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The Case for Rights and Choices" calls for a radical rethink on how population numbers are framed, recognizing the need for a novel approach that puts people...