Since 1981, AIDOS works for the rights, dignity and freedom of choice of women and girls throughout the world. A gender perspective for sustainable development.
LATEST NEWS
C20 Statement on Afghan women’s and girls’ rights
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...
Female genital mutilation and social norms: 4 animated videos to stop FGM
The videos, directed by director and researcher Adele Tulli and animated by illustrator Peque Varela, have been realized by AIDOS in the phase II of the Project “Building Bridges between Africa and Europe to tackle FGM”, supported by the UNFPA UNICEF Joint...
C20 Gender Working Group Communiqué on the Global Health Summit of G20
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...
Statement on UK government funding cuts
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...
EVENTS
Two online Talks: How to talk about FGM!
Two online Talks How to talk about FGM 28 and 29 of September 2021, 4 pm CEST How media can be used to promote the abandonment of FGM? Which are the main barriers? Can we imagine a different narrative around FGM to inspire change? AIDOS is organising two online talks...
One Health in future policies: Cooperation, gender, and health financing
The webinar has the objective of facilitating the dialogue among civil society and institutions on some cross-cutting issues pertaining to the G20 Sherpa Track Working Groups “Health” and “Development”, and to the G20 Finance Track. For this reason, the initiative...
AIDOS is a UNFPA implementing partner
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is an international development organisation that promotes the right to health and equal opportunities in life. UNFPA supports countries in defining policies and programs to alleviate poverty, ensuring that every pregnancy is wanted, and that all girls and women are treated with dignity and respect. For many years AIDOS has been editing the Italian version of UNFPA State of World Population annual report.
All-Party Parliamentary Group
AIDOS carries out awareness-raising and advocacy activities in cooperation with and work as secretariat for the Italian All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health and Women’s Rights. The APPG consistently monitors the implementation of the commitments undertaken by the Italian government, and implements actions to encourage the allocation of resources supporting the global health of women and girls.
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