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A conversation with Ipas research expert Sally Dijkerman on why climate action must include sexual and reproductive health and rights, and what it will take to move from evidence to real-world solutions. Climate justice and sexual and reproductive heal …
The newly expanded rule further advances an extreme anti-rights agenda The Jan. 27 expansion of the Global Gag Rule is just the latest action by the current U.S. administration to decimate global health and human rights. “This policy weaponizes U.S. fo …
Evidence matters most when it helps people act. In 2025, Ipas and partners published research that turns lived realities into practical lessons for improving abortion access and care, especially for people who are too often pushed to the margins. Acro …
The radically expanded Global Gag Rule is a harmful policy that puts the United States even further out of step with our global counterparts.
Ipas Mozambique has launched both a community resource center to foster local leadership on reproductive rights and a chatbot designed to reach rural youth with essential sexual and reproductive health information.
Born and based in La Paz, Bolivia, Manuel Seoane uses photography to show stories that are often overlooked or only partially told. As a photojournalist, he seeks to widen how the world is seen beyond the narrow perspectives that most often define it. Manuel’s work focuses on environmental and human rights issues, where he understands storytelling as a responsibility rather than a solution. In this conversation, he reflects on why difficult stories must be told even if they cannot change outcomes, how he searches for hope in somber situations, and what documenting girls affected by child marriage and teen pregnancy in Bolivia taught him about the importance of bringing sensitive issues to light.
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For too long, stories from Africa have been told from the outside looking in. Photographer and storyteller Kondwani Jere is shifting that lens, bringing deep listening and a learner’s mindset to every story he helps carry into the world.
Home 9 Search Results What does it take to show someone’s strength, even in their hardest moments? For Rosa Panggabean, it starts with sensitivity: to local values, to context, and to the deeper forces shaping people’s lives. Based in Jakarta, Ind …
Home 9 Search Results Ipas is committed to ethical storytelling, image use and most importantly, upholding people’s dignity in the work we do. We partner with local photographers who understand their communities, and who share our values. Rosa Pan …
Study Incidence and safety of abortion in two humanitarian settings in Uganda and Kenya: a respondent-driven sampling study Published in The Lancet Clinical Medicine Led by Ipas in partnership with Ibis Reproductive Health, the International Rescue Com …
For nearly two decades, Ipas Zambia has worked closely with the Ministry of Health to reduce maternal deaths caused by unsafe abortion and to expand access to safe abortion services nationwide. However, despite the progress made, persistent and emerging challenges, including the growing impact of climate change, continue to affect sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Sehrish’s* story echoes the unmet needs of countless women in Pakistan
In a historic milestone for the continent, G20 leaders convened in South Africa in November 2025 for the first ever summit hosted in Africa. Against the backdrop of increasing economic, social and political crises, the world’s leading platform for economic collaboration focused on promoting solidarity, equality, and sustainability as key pillars of inclusive growth.
Access to family planning after an abortion is a vital part of comprehensive reproductive health care. Clinical studies have shown that fertility can rapidly return following an abortion. But access to such care has not been widely available to women in Pakistan.
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Ipas’s Dr. Demeke Desta shares what it was like before the law changed—and the progress he’s seen since.
The High Court in Malawi has ruled that adolescent survivors of sexual violence have the right to access abortion services in both public and private health facilities. Previously, abortion was only legally permitted to save a pregnant person’s life.
Together, we expanded reproductive freedom. With support from donors and partners, Ipas brought lifesaving reproductive health care to almost 2.5 million people at over 10,000 health access points across 24 countries. And we reached millions more with essential information about reproductive health.