Launched IPPFVision 2020 around the globe

29 April 2013

Around the globe Member Association staff, volunteers and clients rallied together to proudly announce the launch of the Vision 2020 manifesto to the public.

The creative ways in which member Associations promoted Vision 2020in their countries were powerfully engaging. Young people and adolescents drove the public activities and strongly support the plan.

 

Link: http://ippf.org/news/IPPF-launches-Vision-2020-around-globe

 

IPPF Vision 2020 Manifesto

n 2000 the United Nations launched the Millennium Development Goals. The world agreed to take action against poverty. Although progress has been made, we are still far from eradicating poverty.

About Vision 2020

However, in the years since the MDG Declaration, the sexual and reproductive health and rights landscape has changed. Global health funding for sexual and reproductive rights and health has declined significantly, and in every region of the world, a maturing HIV epidemic increasingly affects women and girls.

Rising conservative tides have threatened hard-won sexual and reproductive rights victories and compromised the safety and wellbeing of all, particularly of young women in poor communities.

Similarly, several global processes – the MDG review on the post‑2015 Development Agenda, a twenty-year review of progress towards achieving the Cairo Programme of Action, and a discussion on the Sustainable Development Goals initiated at the Rio + 20 conference – are happening now and in forthcoming years, all with implications for the future of the global sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda. It is of the utmost importance that advancing sexual and reproductive rights is central to the international/global development framework that will succeed the MDGs, and will determine policies, priorities and resources allocation worldwide for the decade ahead.

Why Now?

In the second decade of the 21st century, the more than seven billion people sharing the planet face a number of global challenges: threats such as climate change and growing inequalities among and within countries persist alongside the unfinished agenda of poverty elimination at a time when the global financial crisis has reduced the funding available for international development.

Despite these challenges, the current development landscape provides unparalleled opportunities to secure a world of justice, choice and well-being for all. The International Planned Parenthood

Federation (IPPF) envisions a world in which all international programmes work towards the elimination of poverty and hunger in ways that respect, protect, and fulfil human rights.

For more info, download IPPF Vision 2020 Manifesto in PDF: http://ippf.org/resource/Vision2020

Big victory for SRHR advocate during the Global Youth Forum!

It’s our pleasure to announce you that the Global Youth Forum, 4th -6th December 2012 has been finished and we got the most progressive document ever acknowledging young people’s sexual and reproductive rights especially access to safe abortion, acknowledgement of LGBTQI rights, and strong language to adopt sexual rights as a part of human rights.

YSNAP is really proud of what we have done, and especially for delegate from YSNAP who has fought during this event to ensure that SRHR is central to the final outcome. We have nine YSNAP delegates coming to this event, they are:

Firdaus and Vashni – Malaysia
Milikini – Tuvalu
Leiloa – Samoa
Seamrong – Cambodia
Ara and Andi – Indonesia
Wu Yumeng and Liang Xiao – China

In addition, we have Rinaldi, YSNAP Coordinator as one of the Co-chair of the Global Youth Forum! Global Youth Forum is not just another conference that produce declaration and once the declaration be made it won’t really have a strong political commitment. GYF outcome will feed into United Nations Secretary General (UN SG) report for United Nations General Assembly Special Session on ICPD (UNGASS ICPD) at 2014. The outcome is really crucial to ensure that young people’s voices can be heard and also to ensure that it will feed in the post 2015 development frameworks.

Please find the outcome here: http://icpdbeyond2014.org/whats-new/view/id/31/youth-rights-placed-at-the-heart-of-development

Some highlights on it:

• Governments address harmful traditional practices (such as forced circumcision and genital mutilation, early and forced marriage, gender-based violence and violence against women). [p. 3]
• To produce non-discriminatory, non-judgemental, rights-based, age appropriate, gender-sensitive health education including youth-friendly, evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education that is context specific. [p.3]
• Governments must provide, monitor and evaluate universal access to a basic package of youth-friendly health services (including mental healthcare and sexual and reproductive health services) that are high quality, integrated, equitable, comprehensive, affordable, needs and rights based, accessible, acceptable, confidential and free of stigma and discrimination for all young people. [p.3-4]
• As part of this basic package governments must provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services that include safe and legal abortion, maternity care, contraception, HIV and STI prevention, care, treatment and counselling to all young people. [p. 4]
• Governments should implement financially sustainable policies and legal frameworks that protect, promote and fulfill the reproductive and sexual rights of all young people, regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identities. [p. 4]
• Governments must fund and develop, in equal partnership with young people and health care providers, policies, laws, and programs that recognize, promote, and protect young peoples’ sexual rights as human rights. This must be developed in accordance with the principles of human rights, non-discrimination, respect, equality and inclusivity, with a gendered, multicultural and secular approach. [p. 9]
• Cultural and religious barriers such as parental and spousal consent, and early and forced marriages, should never prevent access to family planning, safe and legal abortion, and other reproductive health services – recognizing that young people have autonomy over their own bodies, pleasures and desires. [p. 9]
• Governments should decriminalize abortion, and create and implement policies and programs that ensure young women have access to safe and legal abortion, pre- and post-abortion services, without mandatory waiting periods, requirements for parental and spousal notification and/or consent or age of consent. [p. 10]
• Governments should ensure that every young person, including LGBTQI young people, have equal access to the full range of evidence- and rights-based, youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services and comprehensive sexuality education, that is respectful of young people’s right to informed consent. [p. 11]
• Governments should ensure legal recognition of undocumented workers including migrants, decriminalize sex work, and eliminate mandatory medical checks that are used as a basis for discrimination, especially mandatory HIV, and pregnancy testing in the general protection, respect and fulfillment of the rights of all young people to decent employment. [p. 15]
• Governments and international organizations are urged to undertake political reform to include young people in policy-making and implementation, regardless of socio-economic and cultural background, in line with international human rights standards, and should remove legal, policy and regulatory barriers that hinder the meaningful participation and empowerment of young people to exercise and claim their rights. [p. 18]

In addition to that, Rinaldi and Rishita were giving our speech during the opening here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaxyQP5uLLo Thank you all for your support to all youth delegates and we hope that SRHR will be central in the post 2015 development frameworks!

Warm regards,

YSNAP

Global Youth Forum: YSNAP Coordinator is giving opening speech!

YSNAP Coordinator, Rinaldi Ridwan and and Rishita Nandagiri had a few things to say on young people, bodily integrity, abortion rights, and sexual orientation in our Opening Ceremony speech at the Global Youth Forum in Bali:

YSNAP World AIDS Day Celebration at Bali!

YSNAP in Bali, Indonesia celebrates World AIDS Day with a lot of fun activities! We were making painting competition inviting high school student from Denpasar, Bali! Look what we’ve got

YSNAP rocking Bangkok!

YSNAP were conducting workshop with youth volunteers in Planned Parenthood Association of Thailand! The workshop were on 10th – 11th November 2012. So much fun yet seriously strategizing our plan to move forward as a strong youth network

YSNAP training in Ulanbaatar, Mongolia!

YSNAP conducted training with young people in Mongolia on 30th – 31st October 2012 on sexual rights and youth mobilization! Enjoy!

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