Thank you for this opportunity to join you today. I am privileged to represent civil society which collectively provides some 50 per cent of health services in many developing countries, and in particular, to represent 151 non-government organizations that are members of the International...

When we speak about the universal access to contraceptive services and the huge unmet need for family planning services that exists in the world today, the first image that comes to mind is that of poor women in Africa. Indeed, Africa’s unmet need for contraception is much...

To the Family of George Tiller, M.D.
September 25, 2009

The IPPF has a statement entitled “What We Believe”. It reads:

“We believe that sexual and reproductive rights should be internationally recognized as human rights and therefore guaranteed for...

The International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in 1994, was a watershed event that recognized that the world's most pressing challenges—poverty, ill health and environmental destruction—could be considerably eased by addressing the needs and rights of every...