Below is the speech delivered by Imane Khachani, MD, Msc, from the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights for the High-Level Meeting at the International Parliamentarians’ Conference on the Implementation of the ICPD Programme of Action.
Dr Thoraya Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, Mr Bert Koenders, Minister for Development and Cooperation of the Netherlands, Mr Tedros [...]
Yesterday, at Global Partners in Action: NGO Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development in Berlin, over 60 young people under the age of 30 got together to talk ICPD. We discussed what ICPD means to young people, and how we can continue to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young [...]
Last week, the Population Reference Bureau launched the annual World Population Data Sheet, highlighting country, regional, and global population, health, and environment data and patterns. This year’s data sheet places special emphasis on youth. “The great bulk of today’s 1.2 billion youth—nearly 90 percent—are in developing countries,” said Carl Haub, PRB senior demographer and co-author of the data sheet. Eight [...]
Akimbo, the blog for the International Women’s Health Coalition, just posted a fantastic video interview with Graça Machel, a renowned advocate for women’s and children’s rights. In the video she talks about women’s lack of rights and equality around the world. She says: “Governments believe that women can wait. Even if women are dying.” We [...]
The Millennium Development Goals were set with the target deadline of 2015. I probably don’t have to tell you — we are not even close. In fact, MDG 5 (reduce maternal mortality) is the most off-track of all the MDGs, as stated by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. And according to a mid-way report card from [...]
Yesterday, I attended a luncheon on “The promises of the ICPD for Young People,” sponsored by the Government of The Netherlands in conjunction with the IPPF. The panel discussed some really important topics like: youth friendly services; young women and abortion; youth participation; and delivering young people’s SRHR programmes. The major take-away was that there [...]
Today is Project for Awesome – Every year, YouTube’s Community takes over YouTube for a day… and instead of being stupid or funny… the community promotes charities. (Though, in all honesty, the videos are still pretty stupid and funny!) The idea is to watch these video, comment A TON, and then they’ll get bumped up [...]
