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

20/07/2025

( ) 🔷 "When human rights are treated like an 'à la carte menu' by governments, and not what they truly are - 👉indivisible, foundational and unconditional👈... we move fast into dystopia," said Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Right To Health.

More insights from:
🔹 Dr Harjyot Khosa, Regional External Relations Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
🔸 Dr Eliezer Lappots-Abreu, Executive Director, Health Horizons International, Dominican Republic
🔹 Baba Aye, Health and Social Services Officer, PSI - Public Services International
🔸 Maya Ranavare, President of APAL-India Association of People Affected by
🔹 Daxa Patel, co-founder and former President of National Coalition of People Living with HIV in India (NCPI Plus) and leader of Gujarat State Network of People living with HIV (GSNP Plus)
🔸 Parwen Hussaini of Roshaniya Afghanistan
🔹 Nemat Sadat, CEO Roshaniya
🔸 Rachel Adau, Executive Director of the Women’s Empowerment Centre South Sudan

🔷 The Sangai Express, India (part-2 (last part), op-ed page, 20 July 2025)
https://epaper.thesangaiexpress.com/index.php?edition=Mpage&date=2025-07-20&page=4

🔷 C N S
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/06/gender-equality-and-human-rights-are.html

20/07/2025

! July 2️⃣5️⃣ SHE & Rights session on "Connecting the dots: HIV, s*xual and reproductive health, rights and justice, and SDGs"

United Nations intergovernmental High Level Political Forum 2025 is reviewing progress on SDG3, SDG5 and few other SDGs. 13th IAS - International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science just concluded. UNAIDS Global AIDS Updates 2025 was released few days ago.

👉Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ID1VP5xZQROae2aNbGM70A #/registration

🏆 Attention to journalists and other media actors: Apply for SHE & Rights Media Awards 2025👉 www.bit.ly/sheandrights2025

🟣PANEL OF EXPERTS🟣

🟪 TBC - UNAIDS
🟪 Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane, Legal Representative and Head of Strategic Litigation and Research, OurEquity, South Africa; member of Johannesburg Society of Advocates
🟪 Dr Angelique Nixon, Director, CAISO s*x & gender justice, Trinidad & Tobago Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO)
🟪 Abhina Aher, noted transgender rights activist; Chairperson, Asia Pacific Transgender Network; Managing Director, TWEET Foundation (India)
🟪 Shobha Shukla, CNS Executive Director and SHE & Rights Coordinator; and SDG-3 Lead Discussant at HLPF 2025

This session is co-hosted by Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI), International Conference on Family Planning , 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.

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20/07/2025

🔶 The year 2025 marks 3️⃣0️⃣years since the landmark Beijing Declaration and its Platform for Action was adopted in 1995. Despite rising anti-rights and anti-gender pushes, some progress on these bold promises gives hope and strength, to strive for achieving SDG5 fully by 2030 or earlier.

Read insights from:
✅ Nazneen Damji, Chief (ad interim), Governance and Participation Section, and Senior Policy Advisor, Gender Equality, HIV and Health, UN Women
✅ Fadekemi Akinfaderin, Chief Global Advocacy Officer, Fos Feminista
✅ Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Right To Health and Executive Director, Centre for Global Health Policy & Politics

🔶 Central Chronicle, India
https://centralchronicle.com/epaper/archives/2025-07-13/ccpaper8.pdf

🔶 C N S
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/06/finding-strength-in-struggle-for-gender.html

20/07/2025

🌀 While health, gender and other sustainable development goals are reeling under severe funding cuts, governments of richer nations are increasing defence budgets. More shocking is that same governments who are raising spending on militarisation, are the ones committing to ‘peace’ at a global meet on financing for development and refusing on debt cancellation for the Global South nations. Anti-rights movement against gender equality and human rights is also on an alarming rise.

More insights from:
🔹Sai Jyothirmai Racherla of The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
🔸Zainab Shumail of APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
🔹Mabel Bianco of FEIM
🔸Shereen Talaat of MENA Fem Movement
🔹Swetha Sridhar of Fos Feminista

🌀 Central Chronicle, India (Sunday feature page, 20 July 2025)
https://centralchronicle.com/epaper/archives/2025-07-20/ccpaper8.pdf

🌀 C N S
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/07/no-health-gender-and-economic-justice.html

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19/07/2025

🔷 "When human rights are treated like an 'à la carte menu' by governments, and not what they truly are - 👉indivisible, foundational and unconditional👈... we move fast into dystopia," said Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Right To Health.

More insights from:
🔹 Dr Harjyot Khosa, Regional External Relations Director, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
🔸 Dr Eliezer Lappots-Abreu, Executive Director, Health Horizons International, Dominican Republic
🔹 Baba Aye, Health and Social Services Officer, PSI - Public Services International
🔸 Maya Ranavare, President of APAL-India Association of People Affected by
🔹 Daxa Patel, co-founder and former President of National Coalition of People Living with HIV in India (NCPI Plus) and leader of Gujarat State Network of People living with HIV (GSNP Plus)
🔸 Parwen Hussaini of Roshaniya Afghanistan
🔹 Nemat Sadat, CEO Roshaniya
🔸 Rachel Adau, Executive Director of the Women’s Empowerment Centre South Sudan

🔷 The Sangai Express, India (part-1, op-ed page, 19 July 2025)
https://epaper.thesangaiexpress.com/index.php?edition=Mpage&date=2025-07-19&page=4

🔷 C N S
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/06/gender-equality-and-human-rights-are.html

19/07/2025

While health, gender and other sustainable development goals are reeling under severe funding cuts, governments of richer nations are increasing defence budgets. More shocking is that same governments who are raising spending on militarisation, are the ones committing to ‘peace’ at a global meet on financing for development and refusing on debt cancellation for the Global South nations. Anti-rights movement against gender equality and human rights is also on an alarming rise.

More insights from:
🔹Sai Jyothirmai Racherla of The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
🔸Zainab Shumail of APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
🔹Mabel Bianco of FEIM
🔸Shereen Talaat of MENA Fem Movement
🔹Swetha Sridhar of Fos Feminista

https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/07/no-health-gender-and-economic-justice.html

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International Conference on Family Planning

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

19/07/2025

दुनिया की सभी सरकारें इस समय संयुक्त राष्ट्र मुख्यालय में स्वास्थ्य और जेंडर संबंधित सतत विकास लक्ष्यों पर हुई प्रगति का मूल्यांकन कर रही हैं। परंतु बिना पर्याप्त पूंजीनिवेश के, स्वास्थ्य और जेंडर लक्ष्यों पर कैसे खरा उतरा जाएगा? जुलाई 2025 के पहले सप्ताह में संपन्न हुई विकास के लिए वित्तपोषण पर वैश्विक बैठक भी स्वास्थ्य और नारीवादी एजेंडे पर पूर्णत: विफल रही है।

The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) एरो की सह-निदेशक साईं ज्योतिर्मय रेचरला ने कहा कि “विकास के वित्तपोषण के लिए ज़रूरी है कि वैश्विक आर्थिक प्रणाली का जेंडर परिवर्तनकारी सुधार हो जिससे कि सरकारें स्वास्थ्य और जेंडर संबंधित सतत विकास लक्ष्यों पर ईमानदारी और न्यायपूर्ण रूप से कार्य कर सकें। साईं का मानना है कि आर्थिक न्याय के बिना जेंडर न्याय और स्वास्थ्य अधिकार, दोनों पर खरा उतरना संभव नहीं है।

🔶 डॉ माबेल बायंको, अर्जेंटीना की लोकप्रिय चिकित्सक हैं जिन्होंने अनेक दशकों से स्वास्थ्य और जेंडर अधिकार पर कार्य किया है
🔷 ऋण और विकास पर एशियाव्यापी आंदोलन (एपीएमडीडी) की प्रमुख लिडी नैकपिल Asian Peoples' Movement on Debt and Development
🔶महिला, कानून और विकास पर एशिया पैसिफिक फोरम (एपीडबल्यूएलडी) से संबंधित ज़ैनब शुमैल APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
🔷खाड़ी और पूर्वी अफ्रीका के देशों के नारीवादी आंदोलन से जुड़ी शिरीन तलात Menafem movement
🔶फॉस फेमिनिस्ट की श्वेता श्रीधर Fos Feminista

https://hindi.citizen-news.org/2025/07/blog-post.html

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दुनिया की सभी सरकारें इस समय संयुक्त राष्ट्र मुख्यालय में स्वास्थ्य और जेंडर संबंधित सतत विकास लक्ष्यों पर हुई प.....

18/07/2025

🟣 AIDS response faces ruin, says UNAIDS Asia Pacific and UNAIDS Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Director Eamonn Murphy. He shared the powerful Buddhist tale of Quail and the Net, and said: "We are all the quails – from advocates to academics, countries to communities, doctors to development partners - we worked together to lift the net of the disease that once threatened to devastate us. We even came up with a plan to cast it off for good. Some of us have grown tired, others are doing part of the work but not all they should – many are not pulling their weight – and now we risk being trapped by a disease we should be condemning to history."

More insights from Cedriann Martin, UNAIDS Communications Advisor and Dr Jakkrapatara Boonruang, Research Physician at IHRI - Institute of HIV Research and Innovation and Mark Wainberg Fellowship Awardee

They were speaking at a session on regional data of UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025 and around 13th IAS - International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (CNS is an official media partner of IAS 2025)

🟣 Central Chronicle, India (op-ed page, 18 July 2025)
https://centralchronicle.com/epaper/archives/2025-07-18/ccpaper6.pdf

🟣 C N S
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/07/will-we-quails-unite-to-lift-net-or.html

17/07/2025

AIDS response faces ruin, says UNAIDS Asia Pacific and UNAIDS Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Director Eamonn Murphy. He shared the powerful Buddhist tale of Quail and the Net, and said: "We are all the quails – from advocates to academics, countries to communities, doctors to development partners - we worked together to lift the net of the disease that once threatened to devastate us. We even came up with a plan to cast it off for good. Some of us have grown tired, others are doing part of the work but not all they should – many are not pulling their weight – and now we risk being tracked by a disease we should be condemning to history."

More insights from Cedriann Martin, UNAIDS Communications Advisor and Dr Jakkrapatara Boonruang, Research Physician at IHRI - Institute of HIV Research and Innovation and Mark Wainberg Fellowship Awardee

They were speaking at a session on regional data of UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025 and around 13th IAS - International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (CNS is an official media partner of IAS 2025)

https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/07/will-we-quails-unite-to-lift-net-or.html

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

16/07/2025

📣 : : 👉Breast Cancer Updates 2025👈

Organised by Breast Health Programme and Lucknow Endocrine and Breast Surgery Club

🔹Dr Gaurav Agarwal, Programme Director | Head of Endocrine and Breast Surgery Department, SGPGIMS
🔸Prof Pooja Ramakant, Prog. Coordinator | Professor and Endocrine and Breast Surgeon, Department of Endocrine Surgery, KGMU and Secretary, Indian Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES)
🔹Prof Rohini Khurana, Prog. Coordinator | Professor, Radiation Oncology Department, Dr RML Institute of Medical Sciences (RMLIMS)
🔸Dr Sabaretnam M, Prog. Coordinator | Endocrine and Breast Surgery Department, SGPGIMS
🔹Dr Saksham Singh, Prog. Coordinator | Medical Oncology, RMLIMS

Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences King George's Medical University

16/07/2025

✨ “If we do a reality check, in the current times, we are in a dysfunctional international financing architecture – with countries in the Global South facing the brunt. We are increasingly facing challenges to mobilise resources for our own development. Because most of the countries in the Global South are in the cycles of perennial debt – which they have to keep servicing to international financial institutions. This results into austerity measures which include countries cutting down on public services, access to health services, education services, social protection services, among others,” said Sai Jyothirmai Racherla, Deputy Executive Director, The Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW)

“While it impacts the general population, marginalised communities, and poor people, the impact on women and girls in all their diversity across the strata is much higher. Data tells us that developing countries are seeing a record high debt servicing costs in 2023. This is straining low- and middle-income economies. This is compounded by a US$ 4 trillion annual investment gap for SDG achievement in developing countries,” she added.

🌐 Daily Good Morning Kashmir, India (op-ed page, 16 July 2025)
https://epaper.dailygoodmorningkashmir.com/epaper/edition/1564/gmk-july/page/5

🌐 C N S
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/07/reforming-global-financial-architecture.html

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16/07/2025

👉Health and gender equality are indivisible and fundamental human rights👈. "Right to health cannot be dislocated from gender equality and human rights. We have to ensure that gender equality and human right to health are recognised as fundamental human rights in all countries,” said Shobha Shukla, who was the Lead Discussant for SDG-3 (health and wellbeing) at the United Nations intergovernmental High Level Political Forum (HLPF 2025) at UN HQ in New York (14-23 July 2025). She was speaking on behalf of Asia Pacific Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism and supported by Women's Major Group

Central Chronicle, India (16 July 2025)
https://centralchronicle.com/epaper/archives/2025-07-16/ccpaper6.pdf

CNS
https://www.citizen-news.org/2025/07/no-health-without-rights-says-shobha.html

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