Women’s Participation and Leadership are Critical to Achieving the 2030 Agenda
Women's full and effective participation in political, economic, and public life is essential to achieving gender equality; the 2030 Agenda holds great promise to achieve this goal.
Making Sexual and Reproductive Health Services Accessible for Everyone, Everywhere
Women's health and rights advocates will have to collaborate with the public sector to ensure the goals to ensure universal sexual and reproductive health care are achieved.
How Do We Make the 2030 Agenda Meaningful for Adolescents and Youth?
Comprehensive sexuality education has demonstrated that when young people are educated about human rights, gender equality, and the role of power in relationships, they are better-equipped to make a safe, healthy transition to adulthood.
Congress Has Changed, But Our Priorities Haven’t
We won’t have a full picture of what yesterday's election means until the new term starts, but we do know it presents a more difficult landscape for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
United Nations Adopts Progressive Resolution on Child Marriage
The resolution's adoption highlights the urgency for explicitly addressing child marriage in our next development framework.
Women and Youth Point the Way Forward for Asia and Pacific
As more than 400 government and civil society representatives from 40 countries meet in Bangkok this week for the 6th Asian and Pacific Population Conference, women’s rights and youth activists are calling for strong government commitments to sexual and reproductive health and rights in the region. The five-day population conference is an opportunity for…
Youth and Women’s Groups Respond to Secretary General’s MDG Report
Today, women’s groups and youth advocates sent two separate letters to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlining their vision for global development in 2015 and beyond. The letters were sent in response to the secretary general’s recently released report, “A life of dignity for all: accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and advancing the…
What the Post-2015 High Level Panel Report Means for Women and Girls
The much-anticipated report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda was released yesterday afternoon. In our first read, the report gets some things right, does not go far enough in some areas, and gets a few things wrong.
Governments Fall Short on Fulfilling Commitments to Women and Girls
At the UN's Commission on the Status of Women last month, governments missed the opportunity to to make concrete commitments to support the promises of the 2030 Agenda for women and girls.
Progress in the Face of Adversity: Activists Discuss Setbacks and Challenges for Women’s Rights
To mark the 30th anniversary of the International Women’s Health Coalition earlier this month, IWHC hosted a panel discussion with three young women activists to assess the progress we’ve made and address the challenges that lie ahead for women’s rights.