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At right: Maria Antonieta Alcalde, IPPF/WHR Deputy Director of Public Affairs, speaks at IPPF Luncheon "Girls Decide."
Sexual Rights on the Agenda
Daily Links at CSW, Issue 5
IPPF Delivers Petition at UN: Young people ask world leaders to fulfill ICPD promises
The IPPF delegation gathers at the United Nations during the 54th Commission on the Status of Women
The Beijing Platform for Action is a lot. But it is a good tool when advocating women´s rights. It is just a matter of finding the good SRHR writings. The platform shows that there is a global support for women´s rights even though there are some problems implementing it. There is a lot of talk and I have heard so many speakers just during the first two days of CSW saying that governments need to walk the talk, and yes that would be good!
Silvia, Sweden (RFSU)
I think the fact that 15 years down the line, the Beijing Platform for Action is still as relevant and important to women's lives today is telling about the kind of commitment nation states actually have towards gender equality, women's empowerment and women's human rights.It seems to me as though the rhetoric remains just that and without women's rights movements, we wouldn't even have made the little progress we have. If, when I was a 15-year-old, we could put down in black and white the importance of women having control over their sexuality, it strikes me as incomprehensible why we are not able to action this even by 2010.
Arushi, India (SARO)
The CSW to me involves being prepared to forge alliances on among others, choices regarding our sexuality/ies and reproductive health so as to ensure that women’s rights are given due attention as indivisible human rights applicable to all women regardless of age, race, sexual orientation and religious belief.
What (Beijing Platform for Action) and (CSW) means to me in summary.
Being
Prepared to
Forge
Alliances
on
Choices regarding our
Sexuality/ies and Reproductive health to ensure that
Women’s rights are given due attention.
Yvette, Kenya (ARO)
| IPPF Participants at CSW |
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| Hand-over of the Count Me In: Sexual Rights for All petition |
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| Daniela Santos – PROFAMILIA – Colombia |
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| Maria Cristina Ramirez, IPPF/WHR Senior Program Advisor - Logistics, Lucella Campbell, IPPF/WHR ... |
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| Carmen Barroso at the panel "The benefits of investing in family planning and maternal and neonatal health" |
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