Guttmacher at #UNGA79: Summit of the Future for SRHR Advocacy
Antonio Guterres (Secretary-General of the United Nations) emphasizes governments’ commitment to removing barriers to gender equality and building policy on evidence, while Peace Umanah (Director of Communications, IYAFP) calls for youth-led advocacy grounded in data and free from decisions imposed on them.
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Transcript: Antonio Guterres: [Amid] the rollback of women's reproductive rights, governments have explicitly committed to removing the legal, social and economic barriers that prevent women and girls from fulfilling their potential in every sphere. We build our policy on evidence in order to be able to understand what are the needs of young people.
Peace Umanah: I think it's very important for us to all use data in our advocacy. And this world is only possible if we as youth are no longer subject to the decisions made for us.