Access to SRHR Services
Young women have grown tired of patriarchal control of female sexuality and are demanding a say on their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Gender inequality and discrimination against girls mean they are often robbed of the right to make their own life decisions – from what happens to their bodies, to when and to whom they marry.
Teenage pregnancy can rob girls of their potential by ceasing their education and giving them adult responsibilities. An estimated 18 million adolescent girls give birth every year.
Ensuring girls’ and young women realise their right to sexual and reproductive health and have control over their lives and bodies are critical to achieving gender equality.
We work with partners around the world to enable access to quality sexual health services, and eliminate harmful practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and child, early and forced marriage.
Issues
Report: Say it out loud – Sexual wellbeing matters
Perspectives from young people in Ecuador and Uganda
Listening to young people’s voices on sexual wellbeing and consent – what this means for sexual and reproductive health and rights influencing and practice.
Overview: sexual and reproductive health and rights
This Area of Global Distinctiveness (AoGD) overview describes the results that we want to achieve for children and particularly for girls, the most important strategies we want to focus on as an organisation and the most important areas of work where we want to invest to build coherent, gender-transformative programming.
How covid-19 is threatening girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights
The COVID-19 crisis will exacerbate the significant barriers for girls and young women’s to access essential sexual and reproductive health information and services.
It takes a village: Ending FGM by creating new rituals
Rural communities in Guinea are creating new rituals that bring together the whole community with the aim of abolishing female genital mutilation (FGM), for good.