WGNRR is an autonomous, independent, grassroots-led network of over a 1000 members that advocates for the realisation of sexual and reproductive health rights for all!
WGNRR strives to achieve full SRHR for all people via advocacy, campaigns, networking and capacity building of members. For 2010-2015, our current focus relates to the ICPD PoA and the MDGs.
The young women and adolescent girls have little access to nutritious food. This program is focusing on these specific issues of young women. This program will supplement the ongoing support programs by UN agencies and other Support Programs in the area.
The Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights members is calling on all sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice advocates to join us in putting state representatives at the United Nations Headquarters on notice that we are alarmed as the final preparations for the UN High Level Summit on the Millennium Development Goals proceed because:
InterPress Service, 23 Aug, 2010, Nairobi — Kenyans are still euphoric over the referendum endorsing a progressive new constitution; but the heat generated by its opponents around their main rallying point - abortion rights - is a reminder of the wide gap between law and implementation in Africa, particularly when it concerns women's rights.
Michelle Movahed, Center for Reproductive Rights, 24 August, 2010--This week, for the first time, the United States submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, a rotating body of countries that peer-review U.N. member countries’ human rights records. This submission is historic. Where the Bush administration spent years criticizing the U.N. and human rights processes, in this report the Obama administration has stressed an end to U.S. human rights exceptionalism, quoting Hillary Clinton’s statement that “[h]uman rights are universal . . . . That is why we are committed to “holding everyone to the same [human rights] standards, including ourselves.”
