Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

16/04/2026

"Shaping Positive Narratives in Asia and the Pacific". ✨
➡️ Our new toolkit to support advocates and allies was launched alongside ❤ and developed in partnership with IPPF ESEAOR and FP 2030 Asia and the Pacific
You can access it here: https://www.asiapacificalliance.org/our-publications/shaping-positive-srhr-narratives-asia-and-pacific-toolkit-support-advocates-and-allies

01/04/2026

When powerful member states like the US refuse to pay their contributions to the UN, SRHR are first to be rolled back. APA was proud to join AWID’s statement at the panel discussion on financing sustainable development in line with economic, social and cultural rights obligations. 💪Delivered by Umyra Ahmad, AWID Advocacy Lead, and calling for a proportionate financing approach to safeguard budgets that protect and .
https://bit.ly/4c6Ks8W

At HRC61, AWID’s Advocacy Lead, Umyra Ahmad made a statement at the panel discussion on financing sustainable development in line with economic, social and c...

30/03/2026

Taking place tomorrow! A panel moderated by Gita Sen, DAWN Feminist and, including:
* Rajat Khosla, Executive Director, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH)
* Magdalena Sepúlveda, Director, UNRISD, former UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
* Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
* Chee Yoke Ling, Executive Director, Third World Network
* Levi Singh, youth advocate, SRHR Africa Trust
A series of experts that will be sharing how sexual and reproductive health and rights fits within development justice and the right to development.
📅 March 31
⏰ 8:00 a.m. (EDT) /19:00 ICT
🌍 Online with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish, French and Portuguese

Register now: https://bit.ly/Launch3103

27/03/2026

The idea that legalizing and decriminalizing abortion “forces” anyone is a harmful myth. ⚠️
Legalizing and decriminalizing abortion protects the right to make informed decisions and access safe, stigma-free healthcare—it doesn’t coerce anyone. 💜 It’s time to stop spreading fear and misinformation that fuel stigma and start respecting bodily autonomy. ✨
🌍 From silence to solidarity: share this, speak up, and stand for access to safe abortion care. ✨
📣 Join us this and take action. 🔗Access the campaign toolkit at march28.org Together, we can destigmatize abortion. 💪💜

Not once in my life did I imagine that a global pandemic would force all of us to stay home for months. It was challenging adjusting to the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, and yet we are still expecting long term impact brought about by this global health challenge, even as complications in the ec...

24/03/2026

Global crises, from COVID-19 to debt and climate shocks, have exposed systemic injustices that shape people’s lives. When financial institutions impose austerity, when social spending is cut, when inequality grows, SRHR is among the first rights to be undermined.
This is why feminist advocates across the Global South are joining forces to make visible what our lived realities have always shown:
Bodily autonomy, gender equality, and development justice are interconnected and mutually reinforcing.
A Global South coalition is forming to redefine how SRHR is understood in global, regional and national spaces and to challenge the structural conditions that push the realization of these rights out of reach.
Stay tuned for updates and save the date for our launch: March 31st

Register now: https://bit.ly/Launch3103

18/03/2026

Good news from , on the election of their first transgender lawmaker. Nepal’s Election Commission confirmed election of Ms Bhumika Shrestha on March 16, a proportional‑representation MP from the centrist Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) which won a majority in parliament with 182 seats last week. Increasing representation is vital for fostering a more inclusive society, and a more accurate understanding of .
PHOTO: AFP

YUWA WOREC Asia Pacific Transgender Network

17/03/2026

From heightened authoritarianism and the climate crisis to well-funded anti-gender movements, the path to justice for women and girls is being deliberately obstructed - these challenges have been illustrated at the intergovernmental level during last week.
Over 100 civil society organizations, feminist activists, and grassroots leaders from across Asia and the Pacific are calling for Development Justice through systemic change that enables access to justice for women in all their diversity, and fulfillment of for all, including:
✅Legal reform must be accompanied by implementation and accountability.
✅Achieving true access to justice requires the urgent removal of economic and social barriers.
✅Justice must be fully accessible to all persons, including women and girls with disabilities.


SERAC-Bangladesh Intersex Asia Asia Pacific Women's Watch APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development

09/03/2026

Today the 70th Commission on the Status of Women begins, to discuss access to justice in a place where over half the world's women, girls and gender diverse persons are blocked from entering. In a time of global polycrisis, over 100 civil society organizations, feminist activists, and grassroots leaders from across Asia and the Pacific are calling for Development Justice through systemic change that enables access to justice for women in all their diversity, and fulfillment of for all ✊

➡ Access the full CSO Collective Statement from the Asia-Pacific Regional CSO Forum for the here: https://www.asiapacificalliance.org/our-publications/ap-csw70-cso-call-action-2026


Fiji Women's Rights Movement APWLD - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development Asia Pacific Women's Watch

24/02/2026

Join us this Thursday! for an side event highlighting the women migrant workers' right to development ✊



CARAM Asia page

19/02/2026

launched its commitment to Planning 2030 with the "Every Birth Matters" campaign, which prioritizes women's bodily autonomy and access to high-quality care to ensure that every birth is voluntary, safe and wanted. Three forward-looking strategies aimed at building a health-centred ecosystem include reducing healthcare burdens on parents, expanding digital access to maternal and child health services, and harnessing big data analytics to provide more tailored, family-level policy support. 👏👏👏

see also: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3196723/thailand-pushes-to-arrest-plunging-birth-rate?fbclid=IwY2xjawP-IAJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETJON3ZvRjhBWWZpWEpxb1Jmc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqJSMUY1rWyQ2u7q-SyHu0_rUkbJ4AqwyFm1ZsaAw9AWvaDo4V1N92Nf7Zo__aem_LeV3F42f_hNfxyiNGq_SHg

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09/02/2026

The UN80 reform will redefine how the UN delivers on human rights and development. Decisions being made now represent a defining opportunity to protect and strengthen Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) through clear institutional safeguards.

At this critical moment, our position is clear: SRHR must remain central, visible, well-resourced, and politically protected — strengthened and consolidated as a core mandate, regardless of the final institutional configuration.

As the reform advances, 525 organisations from the Global South have endorsed A Call to Action: Safeguarding SRHR in the UN80 Reform, urging the UN and its Member States to:
Protect ring-fenced financing for SRHR, even in times of fiscal contraction
Ensure strong political and technical leadership, including high-level visibility
Guarantee accountability and system-wide coherence across UN entities
Secure meaningful civil society and youth participation
Anchor SRHR within development justice and the right to development

Take action: as signatories, we are amplifying this call in our countries. Share this message, mobilise your networks, and urge UN Member States and UN leadership to treat SRHR as non-negotiable in the UN80 reform.

30/12/2025

: AI GENERATED VIDEOS USED TO ENCOURAGE MARRIAGE
Online artificial intelligence-generated videos of distraught middle-aged single women regretting not getting married and having children are being used to push young people to tie the knot.

Several videos made using artificial intelligence (AI) depicting crying single women at hospitals have circulated on a short video platform.

Parents are buying AI clips of regretful single women to urge childless kids to marry

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Fake videos show frustrated, unmarried, childless middle-aged women crying and venting in hospital hallways about their life choices.