Regional News

Bogota/London, Monday 21st February 2022 Today, the Colombian Constitutional Court decriminalized abortion up to 24 weeks in another victory for the Green Wave sweeping through Latin America. The historic decision follows years of campaigning by women’s right’s activists across Colombia and came off the back of two lawsuits that asked the court to declare article 122 of the penal […]

Check out our new Organizing Playbook! We drive change through collective action; Standing Up and Speaking Out for bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights. From grassroots movement building and creating national coalitions to regional network strengthening and implementing global advocacy campaigns; in each case organizing is at the heart of effective action.  We’ve developed the new SheDecides Organizing Playbook as a practical guide to organizing collective action for a world where SheDecides. It has […]

Serving Afghan refugees in Pakistan The Responding with Essential SRHR Provision and New Delivery mechanisms (RESPOND) project aims to restore services, particularly to marginalised populations such as young people, people living in poverty, and people with disabilities, which have been impacted by COVID-19. RESPOND is a two-year program being implemented jointly by IPPF and MSI […]

Esperanza Delgado is the Strategic Director of Advocacy and inter-institutional Relations at the Family Planning Association of Mexico. She was recently selected as one of four women to participate in the International Masters Program for Managers at the Lancaster University Management School. We put a series of questions to her as she prepares to take […]

We are pleased to share with you the 4th E-newsletter edition of IPPF’s Social Enterprise Programme.    This annual newsletter gives you snippets of updates about the programme, key highlights, recap of the 2021 activities, important links, what’s in store for 2022…and more. As this is designed as an e-document you can click on the links and teaser content to be re-directed to the full […]

How do we get back on track in realizing gender equality and SRHR? This will be the central question at our #AfricaEU event next Tuesday, with ministers from Africa and Europe, UNFPA, the European Commission, youth and civil society. Register here: Africa-Europe Week – New Registration (eventscloud.com)

ICFP 2022 abstract submissions now open Abstract submissions for the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2022 will be accepted between 1 February and 15 March 2022. For information on how to submit abstracts, please see here. Background on ICFP 2022: ICFP 2022 will take place from 14-17 November 2022 in Pattaya City, Thailand. It […]

The IPPF ACRO Team is excited to Welcome Two New Member Associations in Antigua and Dominica!  The Antigua and Barbuda Planned Parenthood Association and  Dominica Planned Parenthood Association joins our growing family, which spans 28 countries across the Americas and Caribbean region, together we are united in the fight towards Reproductive Justice for ALL.  The […]