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Home 9 Search Results The 80-page Ipas report, Future-Proofing: The Professionalization of an Anti-Rights Youth Generation examines the recruitment, funding, coordination, and mobilization of young people within anti-rights movements. Using exampl …

Abortion pills from local medicine vendors were just as safe and effective as clinic-based care

Search Results May 20, 2026 Research priorities in sexual and reproductive health and rights and climate change: Results of a consensus building and prioritisation process May 12, 2026 Beyond the 72 h window: operationalizing safe abortion as essential …

Child marriage, teen pregnancy and school dropout remain persistent challenges in South Africa, with girls and young women disproportionately affected.

Domestic and International Anti-Rights Activity 2023-2025

Orlidy Inoa Lazala Home 9 Search Results A doubly (un)comfortable decision Orlidy Inoa Lazala is a human rights lawyer and activist from the Dominican Republic and a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s R …

Recent literature suggests that climate change can impact sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) outcomes, especially since climate-related events may exacerbate persistent inequalities based on gender, disability status, sexual orientation, and age, among others. Climate change can also impact health infrastructure with an impact on SRHR access and outcomes. However, data are scarce when it comes to certain topical areas, types of evidence, and in using an intersectional approach. Based on a prior expert consultation exercise, we conducted a consensus and priority setting process to develop a list of priority research questions at the intersection of climate change and SRHR. For this, in 2024, we completed an iterative process over three rounds consisting of online surveys and consultations, following modified Delphi and Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) methodologies for which 100 people were included. For round one, 56 people responded to the 17-question survey framed around topical areas in SRHR, research methodologies, and intersectionality; 39 people participated in the online consultation. The round two survey had 36 respondents and 41 participants to the online consultation. The third round included a survey with a list of 31 questions that respondents were asked to prioritize. A final list of ten questions emerged which highlighted important areas where there continue to be gaps in evidence, including maternal and perinatal health, contraception and abortion access, and gender-based violence. Other critical areas include intersectional issues regarding gender and poverty and comprehensive sex education. The list can serve as a starting point to guide the SRHR research community to generate the evidence needed for policy action.

How Ipas’s Makoki ya Mwasi project guarantees women displaced by conflict can still control their own bodies and futures

My resilience looks like a blank page jotted on with invisible ink—the endless possibility of ineffable words that bleed through every line with valor, grace and ruthlessness.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Safe abortion is a human right and must be treated as essential care for survivors of sexual violence without arbitrary time limits (Frontiers in Reproductive Health)

In many parts of Nigeria, the nearest clinic is hours away. For women who need abortion care, that distance is not just inconvenient. It can be the difference between accessing safe care and not accessing it at all. A new study finds that women who obt …

Resource downloads: Violences scolaires au Mali : prévalence, formes et impacts sur le bien-être et la réussite des élèves à Bamako Policy briefs: Violence en milieu scolaire en Côte d’Ivoire Violence en milieu scolaire au Mali Quand l’école devi …

Although Mozambique liberalized its abortion law in 2014 to expand access to safe abortion care and reduce maternal deaths, silence and stigma continue to surround sexual and reproductive health and rights—especially for adolescent girls. This is now c …

An analysis of how the Public Defender’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro has contributed, through public advocacy and the use of procedural paths, to overcoming barriers and implementing public health policies to guarantee access to legal abortion.

Home 9 Search Results How is your reproductive health impacted by climate change? We’ve asked hundreds of people around the world this question, as our researchers work to understand exactly how and why climate disasters harm people’s reproductive …

There are few studies in Brazil on the role of the Public Defender’s Office in achieving reproductive justice and, specifically, in guaranteeing the right to abortion. The institutional paths are tortuous for those who request the termination of pregnancy in health services, with several barriers to access to the procedure even within legal parameters. In a scenario of legal restrictions and human rights violations, the Public Defender’s Office acts as a mediator of demands with health services or through requests for judicial authorization from the courts. This article discusses pioneering actions and initiatives by the Public Defender’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro in recent years to guarantee legal access to abortion, against threats of regression in law and practice.

As the United States  approaches its rescheduled 4th Universal Periodic Review (UPR), individuals’ sexual and reproductive health and rights continue to deteriorate across the country. Since our previous submission, there has been an increase in both restrictions on reproductive health-care access (in particular abortion care), and in targeted, state-sanctioned violence, intimidation, discrimination, and harassment of communities by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Based on IDRC‑supported qualitative research conducted in Kinshasa, this policy brief examines how school environments shape the educational pathways of pregnant adolescent girls and unmarried young mothers. Despite recent policy reforms prohibiting their exclusion from schools, the findings reveal persistent stigma and systemic barriers. The brief calls for coordinated evidence‑informed action across education, health, and community systems to uphold girls’ right to education and advance gender equality.