Covid-19 didn’t stop us! This year, we did things slightly differently, we’ll did it the youth’s way! To mark the International Day of the Girl our coalition of nine Civil Society Organisations joined forces bringing together a group of 30 young advocates, from Europe and Africa, who connected online to share their recommendations with European Union decision-makers.
111 organizations express deep concern regarding current threats to reproductive rights in Slovakia. We call on Parliament to reject new regressive and harmful legislative proposal and to refrain from further attempts to restrict women’s reproductive rights in Slovakia.
Our #BecauseSheCounts campaign asks decision-makers to put universal health care, human rights and equality at the core of all public policy and funding decision.
Access to abortion care underpins women and girls’ reproductive health. And yet around Europe and Central Asia, they are faced with obstacles that threaten their safety, dignity and freedom.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences have endangered everyone’s health. But in almost all European countries, women have been particularly affected by a significant restriction in access to sexual and reproductive health care, and abortion care in particular.
Governments and the international community should work to safeguard the right of women and girls to lead free and safe reproductive lives without discrimination and coercion.
This guide provides governments with a roadmap for taking necessary measures to protect the rights of women and girls, who are disproportionately affected by the pandemic, especially those experiencing intersecting and persistent forms of discrimination.
