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Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)
The panel will bring together Global South voices to deliberate, discuss and condemn any backlash on human rights of women, girls and pregnant person's reproductive autonomy. The SDG era and goals 3 and 5 deal with health and gender equality. Achieving gender equality in law and practice necessarily require governments to repeal discriminatory laws, policies and practices in all areas including sexual and reproductive health rights. The ongoing regressions to accessing abortion information and services become barriers to achieving SDGs 3 and 5 and contests human rights which are already enshrined in international human rights frameworks, including the right to health, the right to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, the right to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy.
Within the context of the post-pandemic recovery, SRHR advocates continue to hold governments accountable to the gendered impacts of the pandemic that remain unaddressed to date. As women and advocates from the Global South, we see that overturning Roe vs Wade will have implications on reproductive freedom and access to safe abortion of women and girls from around the world. We see that the regressions on abortion rights in the United States are a threat to bodily autonomy and a barrier to achieving the SDGs targets. It will override existing policies in place on ground, reverse gains hard-won by the women’s movements on the ground, and ultimately to control the bodies of the women from the Global South where poverty is a huge barrier in accessing SRHR.
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