IPPF, South Asia Region

11/12/2025

👉 The recently released 2024 Violence Against Women (VAW) Survey by UNFPA in Bangladesh reveals:
📍 Over 70% of women have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime, with 49% experiencing IPV in the past year alone.
📍 Emotional violence and controlling behaviour are the most prevalent forms of violence against women.
📍 8% of women with access to technology experienced tech-facilitated gender-based violence in their lifetime.

👉 Despite this, over 60% of survivors never shared their experiences with anyone. The data reflects a crisis that extends far beyond Bangladesh’s borders and affects communities across South Asia.

🔗 Read more here:

Acros South Asia, IPPF Member Associations are strengthening health systems to respond to sexual and gender-based violence.

10/12/2025

📍Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is a public health and human rights issue. The prevalence of SGBV, especially intimate partner violence, across South Asia surpasses global averages.

📍The IPPF Member Associations provide first-line, survivor-centred SGBV support as part of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services, ensuring SGBV survivors, including survivors from diverse communities, receive safe, confidential and compassionate care.

👉🏻 This , we reaffirm that a life free from SGBV is a fundamental human right, and continue to respond to, and challenge SGBV everyday!

🔗 Read more here: https://sar.ippf.org/blogs/sgbv-response-south-asia

02/12/2025

👉 Join us for the "Catalyzing Change: Leveraging Regional Community Leadership for Better HIV and SRHRJ Outcomes" webinar with UNAIDS India, India HIV / AIDS Alliance, FPA Sri Lanka and Bandhu Social Welfare Society.

👉 The webinar marks the launch of the IPPF South Asia Region's HIV Learning Exchange Series, created to strengthen cross-learning under the IPPF HIV Action Plan.


📅 4 December 2025
🕒 12:30–2:05 PM IST | 3:00–4:35 PM MYT

🔗 Register here: https://ippf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jBTF2Zj9TGKNFc87P4mcSg

01/12/2025

👉 HIV infections among women in Iran are rising at an alarming pace, driven by stigma, inequality and cultural and social barriers to essential care.

👉 But ending AIDS is possible. This , we call for challenging stigma, strengthening rights, and placing dignity at the centre of public health for ending HIV/AIDS.

🔗 Read the full piece by Zeynab Peyghambarzadeh from Spectrum, here: https://sar.ippf.org/blogs/hiv-crisis-women-iran

Photo Credits: Saied Goli/Mehr News Agency

01/12/2025

👉 Join us for the "United to End Gender-based Violence" Regional Webinar organized by the Population Services and Training Center, featuring speakers from across the International Planned Parenthood Federation - IPPF.

📅 03 December 2025
🕢 10 AM-12 PM Bangladesh Time | 12 PM-2 PM Kuala Lumpur Time

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82135036753?pwd=eARl7qvVE2uTLLKO6iaV1FDwAcebTL.1

25/11/2025

📌 UN Women's multi-country study shows that 38% of women with internet access across 51 countries have faced online violence.

📌 Generative AI is accelerating tech-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence.

📌Big Tech platforms routinely misclassify and censor essential sexual and reproductive health content, silencing SRHR activists and sexuality educators.

👉 It’s time to break free, and demand accountability for tech-facilitated sexual and gender-based violence against women and marginalized voices.

👉 This , we refuse to accept platforms and policies that enable online abuse and censor SRH information. Join us to demand tech accountability and reclaim the digital.

20/11/2025

🔥 Proud, bold, and united: we are values-led.

Today, at the International Planned Parenthood Federation - IPPF’s General Assembly in Bali, our Federation unanimously adopted its first-ever IPPF Charter of Values, delivering on our collective commitment to re-examine our principles, reignite our shared spark, and push the line for justice, equality, and bodily autonomy.

Born from the voices and courage of our members across the Federation, this Charter is both a mirror and a map. It tells us who we are and where we stand. Together with our new Brand, it is our fire that refuses to be extinguished.

The Charter sets out seven values that define our identity and purpose: Dignity, Equality, Justice, Pleasure, Community, Integrity, and Resilience. They are not abstract ideals. They are our commitment to action. They show who we stand with, and what we stand for. Louder, prouder, and bolder. United.

IPPF’s new Charter of Values grounds us in a simple but demanding truth: sexual and reproductive rights are universal human rights. It states that equality is intersectional, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-ableist. That the struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights is inseparable from the global struggle for justice and liberation.

The Charter affirms that pleasure – in all its forms - is a right, not a privilege. That safe abortion for all is our horizon, and LGBTQ+ rights, the rights of women and girls, Indigenous communities , and those of all marginalised communities are fundamental to freedom itself. It acknowledges that oppression is upheld and sustained by colonialism and imperialism, and our duty to dismantle this. It calls us to work collectively with courage, with love, with solidarity.

And it holds us accountable, first and foremost, to the individuals and communities we work with.

This Charter is a compass for our movement. It unites us and invites others to join. It is proof that no matter what we face, however they attack, wherever they advance, we will be there.

This is who we have always been: fierce defenders of dignity, equality, and justice. Now, we have made it a Charter.

We are IPPF. We are the fire.

👉Read more: https://www.ippf.org/news/we-made-it-charter-ippfs-declaration-values

19/11/2025

It's International Men’s Day, we’re calling out to men. At a time when anti-rights movements draw in men, we spotlight the men who are part of our movements, men in all their diversities, men as allies, and men who stand up for the rights and safety of others.

Men who show up for reproductive justice.
Men who lead with love and care with courage.

05/11/2025

Same IPPF. New Fire. 🔥

Our new identity is our declaration. A pledge to be more visible, more vocal, and more effective in pushing the line forward for justice, for rights, for bodily autonomy. It is not about changing who we are but unleashing what we have always been.

This is our new identity, adapted for today’s challenges. Ready for the future.

This is about more than us. It is about everyone who believes in a world of justice, equality, and pleasure.

Stay with us. Stand with us. Celebrate your right to be bold, resilient, and unapologetic.

Watch the story behind our new brand 👇🏽

Learn more about our new brand: https://bit.ly/47TvdOv

03/11/2025

Proud, disruptive, and fierce.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) presents its new Brand - one that affirms who we are: a vibrant, diverse collective, united by an unwavering commitment to Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice.

In 2022, IPPF embarked on a journey to clarify its values and renew its brand. Building on more than 70 years of trailblazing struggles, we recognized the profound power that comes from reaffirming who we are and what we stand for, as we continue to ignite change.

Our new Brand was born from our members’ voices and energy and from the communities we work with — straight from the front lines of change. It reflects our membership and the people who bring it to life every day: healthcare providers, educators, activists, movement-builders, and volunteers.

It shines with pride in our work and a deep sense of accountability for the trust placed in us. It carries our determination to uphold the dignity of all people, especially those most affected by inequalities and exclusion. It burns with conviction - steady, bright, and impossible to extinguish.

We are united by a shared commitment to equality and justice. We are feminist, anti-racist, and anti-ableist. We reject colonial legacies and all forms of discrimination. We believe in joy and in pleasure for all.

Today, profound global upheavals challenge us to respond with clarity and purpose.

In a world that divides, IPPF unites.

In a world of disinformation and anti-rights hatred, IPPF speaks truth – informed by evidence, inspired by justice.

Grounded in our values, the global Brand is a beacon of trust.

It is our pledge - not only to hold the line for sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice, but to blaze forward.

Passion is our oxygen; purpose is our spark.

We are the fire.

Learn more about our new brand: https://bit.ly/47TvdOv