June 17, 2024
On the evening before the Global Youth Dialogue in Benin, SheDecides hosted the #YouthDecides high-level reception in partnership with SheDecides Champion The Government of the Kingdom of The Netherlands.News
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7 ways to make SRHR services youth-friendly!
June 6, 2024
How can countries around the world make SRHR services more accessible for young people?What’s the state of SRHR for young people in Rwanda?
May 30, 2024
Diana Keza (pictured below, on the right) is Head of Capacity Building at AfriYAN Rwanda, a Plan International youth advocate and a member of SheDecides Youth Advisory Panel. We asked her about the youth SRHR landscape in Rwanda.#YouthDecidesNow! SheDecides Champions show support for youth SRHR at the all Champion Roundtable 2024
April 23, 2024
On 5 March SheDecides convened an all-Champion roundtable, timed to mark SheDecides Day and build solidarity in our common agenda on youth SRHR.
Art Activism! Zine Making Workshop at the ICPD30 Global Youth Dialogue
April 10, 2024
We are making a zine collection about young peoples’ sexual reproductive health and rights to share our hopes and visions for the future of youth SRHR!
How Is Comprehensive Sexuality Education A Missing Link To Promoting Positive Gender Norms?
March 25, 2024
First published in April 2023
From the rise of misogynistic influencers online to growing restrictions on girls’ rights to education, harmful gender norms are impacting communities across the globe. So, how can the most persistent harmful norms be tackled and how can community and faith leaders support these efforts? We spoke with Kalpana Rai, a gender expert and young activist from Nepal and member of the Beyond Beijing Committee (a project funded by ARROW) about her experience of working with faith leaders to build more gender equal communities.
Why Youth SRHR? Why Now?
March 15, 2024
Bodily autonomy for all young people is one of the three focus areas outlined in SheDecides new Strategic Plan, alongside abortion rights and comprehensive sexuality education. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), which will provide our community with an opportunity to come together, celebrate the advances in SRHR and highlight where progress still needs to be made.
In particular, SheDecides will use the moment to put a spotlight on young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. We spoke to Lewis Emmerton, SheDecides Senior Policy Advisor to learn more about how, and why?
New Year, New Opportunity to Build A World Where SheDecides
February 1, 2024
As we kick off the new year, we take a moment to look back on all that happened in 2023 and drive forward our work in 2024 with renewed commitment and focus.
Women’s Link WorldWide: Unleashing the Power of Women and Girls to Protect and Advance Human Rights
December 11, 2023
Jovana Ríos Cisnero is the Executive Director of Women's Link World Wide and is a SheDecides Champion.
To mark Human Rights Day 2023, we spoke to Jovana about the work of Women's Link and how the organization is unleashing the power of women and girls protect and advance their human rights, and asked her to give her thoughts on how abortion rights are human rights.
Celebrating Human Rights Day: Abortion Rights are Human Rights!
December 8, 2023
Authored by Memory Zonde-Kachambwa and Sonali Silva, SheDecides Guiding Group Co-Chairs