The 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive, Sexual Health & Rights

11/09/2025

: “Sexual and reproductive health rights are an integral element of the right to health. Yet we know when we are speaking specifically about abortion care, that obstacles exist. They are interrelated and entrenched and operate at different levels in clinical care, at the level of health systems and in the underlying determinants of health. Abortion is health care. Access to abortion is a human rights issue. Full stop.” These are the words of Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right To Health, who gave an opening address at SHE & Rights Anniversary Special session ahead of 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Contraception Day (26 September) and Safe Abortion Day (28 September).

Read more insights from Dr Mabel Bianco, noted physician activist and founding president of FEIM (foundation for studies and research on women), Argentina, who was instrumental in organising of 1st Safe Abortion Day in 1990 (Campaña 28 Septiembre) and Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak, Senior Advocacy Manager, Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI).

Daily Good Morning Kashmir, India
https://epaper.dailygoodmorningkashmir.com/epaper/edition/1611/gmk-september/page/5

CNS
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/09/access-to-abortion-is-human-rights.html

09/09/2025

🇸🇳 Noted journalist Mamadou Sy writes from Dakar Senegal (French language) with insights from SHE & Rights speakers including:
🔶 Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right To Health

🔶 Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak, Senior Advocacy Manager, Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI)

🔶 Dr Mabel Bianco, physician activist and founding president of FEIM (foundation for studies and research on women), Argentina

🔶 Dr Suchitra Dalvie, co-founder and coordinator, Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP)

🔶 Nelly Munyasia, Executive Director, Reproductive Health Network Kenya

🔶 Shobha Shukla, founder Executive Director, CNS and coordinator SHE & Rights

This SHE & Rights session was co-hosted by Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI), International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2025, Family Planning News Network (FPNN), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP), Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media) and CNS.

⭐️ Watch the recording of SHE & Rights session held ahead of 80th UNGA, Contraception Day and Safe Abortion Day 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UolZ3RQ6iRY

🏆Last date for applying for SHE & Rights Media Awards is 15 September 2025: www.bit.ly/sheandrights2025

08/09/2025

“Sexual and reproductive health rights are an integral element of the right to health. Yet we know when we are speaking specifically about abortion care, that obstacles exist. They are interrelated and entrenched and operate at different levels in clinical care, at the level of health systems and in the underlying determinants of health. Abortion is health care. Access to abortion is a human rights issue. Full stop.” These are the words of Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right To Health, who gave an opening address at SHE & Rights Anniversary Special session ahead of 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Contraception Day (26 September) and Safe Abortion Day (28 September).

Read more insights from Dr Mabel Bianco, noted physician activist and founding president of FEIM (foundation for studies and research on women), Argentina, who was instrumental in organising of 1st Safe Abortion Day in 1990 (Campaña 28 Septiembre) and Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak, Senior Advocacy Manager, Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI).

https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/09/access-to-abortion-is-human-rights.html

CNS is committed to rights-based communication, policy and advocacy for development justice (health, gender, climate and other SDGs)

06/09/2025

⭐️ Watch the recording of SHE & Rights session held ahead of 80th UNGA, Contraception Day and Safe Abortion Day 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UolZ3RQ6iRY

🏆Last date for applying for SHE & Rights Media Awards is 15 September 2025: www.bit.ly/sheandrights2025

S P E A K E R S
(timestamps mentioned for their specific presentations)

🔶 00:24 - 03:40 | Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right To Health

🔶 11:32 - 16:22 | Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak, Senior Advocacy Manager, Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI)

🔶 16:25 - 18:25 | Tomoko Fukuda, Director for East and South East Asia and Oceania Region, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

🔶 35:03 - 54:08 | Dr Mabel Bianco, physician activist and founding president of FEIM (foundation for studies and research on women), Argentina

🔶 54:28 - 01:06:08 | Dr Suchitra Dalvie, co-founder and coordinator, Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP)

🔶 21:31 - 35:02 | Nelly Munyasia, Executive Director, Reproductive Health Network Kenya

🔶 04:20 - 11:30 | Shobha Shukla, founder Executive Director, CNS and coordinator SHE & Rights

This session is co-hosted by Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI), International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2025, Family Planning News Network (FPNN), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP), Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media) and CNS.

CNS is committed to rights-based communication, policy and advocacy for development justice (health, gender, climate and other SDGs)

04/09/2025

🌐 By committing to SDGs at UNGA 2015, all government leaders had promised health and wellbeing (SDG-3) and gender equality (SDG-5) by 2030 “where no one is left behind.” Two-third along the way in 2025, writing on the wall is clear: 👉promises are not being kept👈

CNS founder leader 👉Shobha Shukla👈 writes with more insights from:
🌐Benedicta Oyedayo Oyewole, Community Engagement and Partnership Lead, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Africa
🌐Matcha Phorn-In, a noted feminist and development justice leader and Founder Executive Director of Sangsan Anakot Yawachon, Thailand
🌐Kavutha Mutua, Founder Director, The Legal Caravan and noted High Court lawyer, Kenya
🌐Anjali Shenoi, noted intersectional feminist from Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)

They were speaking in SHE & Rights (Sexual Health with Equity & Rights) session hosted together by CeHDI, International Conference on Family Planning ICFP 2025, FPNN, IPPF, ARROW, WGNRR, APCAT Media and CNS

🌐 Daily Good Morning Kashmir, India (full newspaper page, 4 September 2025)
https://epaper.dailygoodmorningkashmir.com/epaper/edition/1605/gmk-september/page/5

🌐 C N S
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/09/80th-unga-must-act-to-stop-regressive.html

03/09/2025

🙏Thanks to all SHE & Rights speakers and participants in 2024-2025⭐️ Join us in 🌠1st Anniversary Special SHE & Rights session on 5th September on the theme 👉Abortion rights are human rights👈

Register now! https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ug7GxQ26Rb2oNU6bFvUjkg

S P E A K E R S
🔶 Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right To Health
🟪 Dr Mabel Bianco, physician activist and founding president of FEIM (foundation for studies and research on women), Argentina
🟦 Dr Suchitra Dalvie, co-founder and coordinator, Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP)
🟩 Nelly Munyasia, Executive Director, Reproductive Health Network Kenya
🟨 Debanjana Choudhuri, Executive Director, Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)
🟧 Shobha Shukla, founder Executive Director, CNS and coordinator SHE & Rights

This session is co-hosted by Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI), International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2025, Family Planning News Network (FPNN), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media) and CNS.

03/09/2025

🌐 By committing to SDGs at UNGA 2015, all government leaders had promised health and wellbeing (SDG-3) and gender equality (SDG-5) by 2030 “where no one is left behind.” Two-third along the way in 2025, writing on the wall is clear: 👉promises are not being kept👈

CNS founder leader 👉Shobha Shukla👈 writes with more insights from:
🌐Benedicta Oyedayo Oyewole, Community Engagement and Partnership Lead, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Africa
🌐Matcha Phorn-In, a noted feminist and development justice leader and Founder Executive Director of Sangsan Anakot Yaowachon, Thailand
🌐Kavutha Mutua, Founder Director, The Legal Caravan and noted High Court lawyer, Kenya
🌐Anjali Shenoi, noted intersectional feminist from Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)

They were speaking in SHE & Rights (Sexual Health with Equity & Rights) session hosted together by CeHDI, International Conference on Family Planning ICFP 2025, FPNN, IPPF, ARROW, WGNRR, APCAT Media and CNS

🌐 Central Chronicle, India (op-ed page, 3 September 2025)
https://centralchronicle.com/epaper/archives/2025-09-03/ccpaper6.pdf

🌐 C N S
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/09/80th-unga-must-act-to-stop-regressive.html

02/09/2025

By committing to SDGs at UNGA 2015, all government leaders had promised health and wellbeing (SDG-3) and gender equality (SDG-5) by 2030 “where no one is left behind.” Two-third along the way in 2025, writing on the wall is clear: 👉promises are not being kept👈

CNS founder leader 👉Shobha Shukla👈 writes with more insights from:
🌐Benedicta Oyedayo Oyewole, Community Engagement and Partnership Lead, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Africa
🌐Matcha Phorn-In, a noted feminist and development justice leader and Founder Executive Director of Sangsan Anakot Yawachon, Thailand
🌐Kavutha Mutua, Founder Director, The Legal Caravan and noted High Court lawyer, Kenya
🌐Anjali Shenoi, noted intersectional feminist from Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW)

They were speaking in SHE & Rights (Sexual Health with Equity & Rights) session hosted together by CeHDI, International Conference on Family Planning ICFP 2025, FPNN, IPPF, ARROW, WGNRR, APCAT Media and CNS

https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/09/80th-unga-must-act-to-stop-regressive.html

01/09/2025

⭐️Join us in 🌠1st Anniversary Special SHE & Rights session on 5th September on the theme 👉Abortion rights are human rights👈

Register now! https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ug7GxQ26Rb2oNU6bFvUjkg

S P E A K E R S
🔶 Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Right To Health
🟪 Dr Mabel Bianco, physician activist and founding president of FEIM (foundation for studies and research on women), Argentina
🟦 Dr Suchitra Dalvie, co-founder and coordinator, Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP)
🟩 Nelly Munyasia, Executive Director, Reproductive Health Network Kenya
🟨 Debanjana Choudhuri, Executive Director, Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)
🟧 Shobha Shukla, founder Executive Director, CNS and coordinator SHE & Rights

This session is co-hosted by Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI), International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) 2025, Family Planning News Network (FPNN), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health and Development (APCAT Media) and CNS.

30/08/2025

Nepal has demonstrated commendable progress on a range of health indices, despite myriads of challenges. Nepal is among the least developed countries currently, but due to its sustained and growing progress on a range of sustainable development indices, it is all set to do away with this tag in 2026.

Dr Bikash Devkota, Secretary, Department of Health and Population, Government of Nepal, shared some of the milestones “that we believe are not only national successes but maybe the global exemplars.”

Read more insights from Dr Devkota on a range of health programmes in Nepal: successes and challenges both: , , , , among others. Be it , , or control , is LEADING FROM THE FRONT.

https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/08/will-nepals-leadership-on-health-spur.html

CNS is committed to rights-based communication, policy and advocacy for development justice (health, gender, climate and other SDGs)

28/08/2025

सन् २०१५ मा विश्वका सरकारहरुले २०३० सम्म दिगो विकास लक्ष्य पूरा गर्ने प्रतिवद्धता जनाएका थिए । तर अब २०३० आउन ६४ महिना मात्रै बाँकी छ । आउँदो महिनामा संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघको ८०औं महासभामा एसडीजी विशेष एजेन्डाका रुपमा प्रस्तुत हुनेछ। यही विषयमा छलफल गर्न आयोजना गरिएको कार्यक्रममा बोल्दै विज्ञहरुले दिगो विकास लक्ष्य विशेष गरी एसडीजी ३ स्वास्थ्य अधिकार र एसडीजी ५ लैंगिक समानताबारे धेरै काम भएको भए पनि अझै गर्न बाँकी धेरै रहेको बताएका छन्।

हेल्थ टिभी अनलाइन : सन् २०१५ मा विश्वका सरकारहरुले २०३० सम्म दिगो विकास लक्ष्य पूरा गर्ने प्रतिवद्धता जनाएका थिए ....

28/08/2025

जब तक रोग नियंत्रण और स्वास्थ्य-संबंधित अन्य जानकारियां सांकेतिक भाषा और ब्रेल लिपि में नहीं होगी तब तक हम कैसे सुनिश्चित करेंगे कि जो लोग सामान्य रूप से देख-सुन नहीं सकते, वह भी जागरूक हों, रोग से बचें और ज़रूरत पड़ने पर आवश्यक स्वास्थ्य सेवा से लाभान्वित हो सकें। जो लोग चलने में असमर्थ हैं उनके लिए पहियेदार कुर्सी (व्हीलचेयर) ज़रूरी है, स्वास्थ्य व्यवस्था में चढ़ने के लिए जीने की जगह (या जीने के साथ) रैंप या ढलान बनाना ज़रूरी है जिसपर पहिएदार कुर्सी सरलता और सुरक्षा के साथ आवागमन कर सके।

सितंबर 2025 में 80वीं संयुक्त राष्ट्र महासभा में दुनिया के सभी देशों के अध्यक्ष शामिल होंगे और सतत विकास लक्ष्यों पर हुई प्रगति का मूल्यांकन करेंगे। आशा है कि स्वास्थ्य, जेंडर और मानवाधिकार संबंधित सतत विकास लक्ष्यों के मूल्यांकन में विभिन्न युवाओं द्वारा उठाए हुए ज़रूरी मुद्दे भी शामिल हो सकेंगे।

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🔷नेपाल में विकलांग लोगों के अधिकारों के लिए समर्पित युवा निशांत कुमार
🔶सुप्रिया राय जो एशिया इंडिजेनस यूथ पैक्ट से जुड़ी हैं,
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🔶युगांडा राष्ट्रीय ट्रांसजेंडर फोरम की मोनालिसा अकिंतोले
🔷एचआईवी के साथ जीवित युवाओं के वैश्विक संगठन (वाई प्लस ग्लोबल) की फेथ एबेरे अनूह

https://hindi.citizen-news.org/2025/08/blog-post_28.html

[ English ] जब तक रोग नियंत्रण और स्वास्थ्य-संबंधित अन्य जानकारियां सांकेतिक भाषा और ब्रेल लिपि में नहीं होगी तब तक हम कै....