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Meet Our Experts
Françoise Girard is President of the International Women’s Health Coalition and a highly regarded advocate for women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is regularly consulted by governments and UN agencies and has played a key advocacy role at international negotiations on human rights, women’s rights, and HIV/AIDS.
Meet Our Partners
Sheena Hadi is Director of Aahung, based in Karachi, Pakistan. Under Hadi’s leadership, Aahung has become a leading authority in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Hadi and Aahung are currently focused on expanding sexuality education programs in schools and improving training at medical institutions across the country.
Latest News
At UN, Countries Make Robust Strides Toward Advancing Women’s Rights
At a time when the world is coming to grips with the entrenched discrimination, violence, and restrictions faced by women, this year's outcome at the Commission on the Status of Women makes clear that governments are starting to heed the call for justice.
Women’s Rights Organizations Call on Congress to Protect Sex Workers’ Rights in Fight to End Trafficking of Persons
IWHC strongly opposes legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, which violates sex workers’ rights to freedom of association and free speech, and would undermine efforts to protect sex workers from violence, if enacted.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at Largest UN Meeting on Women
As women worldwide clamor for equality, IWHC joins a broad coalition of partner organizations in pushing a feminist agenda at the Commission on the Status of Women, the largest annual UN gathering focused on gender equality and women’s rights.
IWHC Files Amicus Brief in Case Countering Full Abortion Ban
The brief argues in favor of decriminalization of abortion in Brazil in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and was filed on March 8, International Women’s Day, with Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court.
US State Department Must Keep Full Women’s Rights Focus in Human Rights Reports
IWHC is alarmed by reports that the US Department of State will pare back critical analysis on the state of women’s reproductive rights, including access to contraception and abortion, in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
IWHC to Honor UN Human Rights Chief and Kenyan Health Activist
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, and veteran Kenyan women’s health advocate Monica Oguttu, will be honored by IWHC for their leadership to defend and advance the human rights of women and girls.
New Trump Budget Would Harm Women and Girls Worldwide
President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2019 continues his administration’s assault on women and girls globally by seeking massive cuts to programs intended to protect their health and human rights.