A comprehensive report—Gender snapshot 2022—produced by UN Women and UN Statistics Division, presents the latest evidence on the progress of gender equality across the world, and the results are sobering.
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In flood-hit Pakistan, Ipas is ensuring reproductive health care
With a third of Pakistan underwater due to record flooding from the 2022 monsoon season, the United Nations Population Fund estimates that around 1.6 million women of reproductive age, including nearly 130,000 pregnant women, need immediate sexual and reproductive health services in flood-affected areas.
Ipas-supported site awarded as ‘Best Youth-Run Sexual Health Platform’
Ipas Africa Alliance organizes caravan to advocate for an end to SGBV
Five years after Ipas began abortion care for Rohingya refugees, the work continues
Advocating for women-led climate justice in Nepal
How is climate change affecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls in Nepal? And what can be done to ensure they have leadership roles as climate change response plans are developed in local communities?
Beyond the individual: Research shows abortion access has widespread benefits
It’s a post-Roe world, and Kenya is already feeling the shockwaves
Overturning Roe v. Wade: A rights-denying move that will devastate access to abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade officially denies millions of U.S. residents fundamental rights—to health care, to bodily autonomy, and to freedom.
‘This is a fight without borders’
A U.S. state legislator working to protect abortion access in her state is finding inspiration in Mexico’s abortion rights movement. Here’s our Q & A with Rep. Julie von Haefen of North Carolina:
Upholding migrants’ sexual and reproductive rights in Bolivia
Ipas Bolivia is supporting health centers to offer free sexual and reproductive health care to undocumented migrants and training health-care providers in care that is sensitive to the needs of this population.
Harms of overturning Roe will circle the globe
Dialogue explores ways to expand abortion access in DRC
Empowering women and girls in Niassa
‘The knowledge and courage to do more’
Ipas statement on U.S. Supreme Court leaked decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The leaked draft from the U.S. Supreme Court signaling the court’s intent to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that has guaranteed legal abortion in the United States for nearly 50 years, is a radical, rights-denying move.
Notes from the field: Mexico City 15 years after law change
In Mexico City this week, I got a renewed sense of what it means to make reproductive rights a reality.
