This video shares key insights from the AWID Forum, stressing the urgent need for collective action to protect sexual and reproductive health and rights amid global anti-rights movements and calling on governments to prioritize comprehensive, evidence-based SRHR as part of gender equality ahead of the Beijing+30 process.
Collective action for women's rights and SRHR
Transcript: We had the opportunity to join thousands of advocates earlier this month at the AWID forum hosted by the association for Women's Rights and Development and this was a key takeaway: Amid the political shifts we're seeing which reflect a growing anti-rights movement globally, it's more critical than ever that we invest in collective action for sexual reproductive health and rights.
The right to sexual and reproductive health is an integral part of the human right to health and central to achieving gender equality.
Guttmacher has been engaging in discussions at AWID in how these shifts could further impact global SRHR funding and policies threatening to undermine sexual and reproductive health and rights and bodily autonomy. So as we think about the Beijing +30 process next year, we will be carrying forward the insights that we've gained at AWID and looking to support new narratives that light the path ahead so that comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights can be recognized as an integral part of gender equality and equity.
2025 marks 30 years since the Beijing Declaration affirming that women's rights are human rights. It's imperative that governments prioritize a comprehensive and evidence-based agenda for sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.