Advancing gender-responsive sexual and reproductive health in Mozambique

IPAS
April 24, 2026

Although Mozambique liberalized its abortion law in 2014 to expand access to safe abortion care and reduce maternal deaths, silence and stigma continue to surround sexual and reproductive health and rights—especially for adolescent girls.

This is now changing, thanks to coordinated, multilevel efforts by Ipas Mozambique with support from partners including Global Affairs Canada, as part of our shared commitment to advance gender equality and strengthen the national health system.

Continued: https://www.ipas.org/news/advancing-gender-responsive-sexual-and-reproductive-health-in-mozambique/

24.04.2026

Commentary

Global Affairs Canada

Action Canada and Global Partners Unite to Advance Equitable Reproductive Health Amid Rising Global Rollbacks

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 30, 2026

Ottawa, ON — Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights alongside leading international partners are proud to announce the launch of the Strengthening Health Systems Integrated & Transformative SRHR (SHIFTS) project — a groundbreaking initiative designed to transform how sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are delivered in Benin, Mozambique, and Nigeria, through resilient, integrated health systems.

“This work has never been more urgent,” says Meghan Doherty, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Action Canada. “In a moment where the health and rights are rights of women girls and marginalized people are under threat around the world in, we are building coalitions that will hold the line and work for change.”

Continued: https://www.actioncanadashr.org/news/2026-03-30-action-canada-and-global-partners-unite-advance-equitable-reproductive-health-amid-rising-global

Empowering Women: Ethiopia’s drive to tackle unintended pregnancies, expand reproductive care

By Abraham Tekle
January 18, 2025

In a significant step toward improving women’s health and rights, Independent Physicians Associations (Ipas) has launched a groundbreaking seven-year project aimed at expanding access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for millions of women and girls in underserved communities.

The initiative, announced on January 14, by Ipas Ethiopia, is titled “Improving Access to Reproductive Health Information and Services to the Communities in Five Regions of Ethiopia.” It will focus on reaching over six million people across the Amhara, Central Ethiopia, Oromia, Tigray, and Benishangul Gumuz regions.

Continued: https://www.thereporterethiopia.com/43354/

18.01.2025

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Demeke Desta

Global Affairs Canada

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Canada – ‘They will be refused care’: Inside an American ally’s decision to warn citizens about the US

Abortion rulings and anti-LGBTQ+ laws in the States moved Ottawa to alert Canadians about travel risks.

By ZI-ANN LUM
Dec 24, 2023

OTTAWA — It was a polite Canadian warning from a close friend and neighbor. But Canada’s updated travel advisory to its citizens, counseling them to be careful about traveling to the United States, set off an international furor last summer.

The message renewed attention over the rightward shift in state-level policies governing abortion and the rights of LGBTQ+ people — a trend that has stirred deep concern in Canada, especially after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Continued: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/24/canada-us-travel-advisory-00132936

24.12.2023

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Canada hailed for focusing foreign aid on women’s rights amid global backslide

Canada stays course on sexual-health education, contraception and family planning

The Canadian Press
July 24, 2023

Foreign-aid groups are praising Ottawa for funding initiatives in developing countries that aim to keep women who care for children or elders from being excluded from the economy.

“Canada actually showed up really strongly,” said Katharine Im-Jenkins, managing director of the Equality Fund, in a recent interview from Kigali.

Continued: https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/world-news/canada-hailed-for-focusing-foreign-aid-on-womens-rights-amid-global-backslide-672278

Nigeria – Foundation seeks policy support for safe abortion

December 8, 2022
By Ikechukwu Odu

A community-based women group, Obige Obukpa Widows Care Foundation, on Tuesday, advocated for policy support for safe abortion.

The Foundation which said that unsafe abortion has put the health and lives of women at risks, added that out of 35, 000,000 abortions that take place every year, 7,000,000, women face health complications.

Continued: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/12/foundation-seeks-policy-support-for-safe-abortion/

08.12.2022

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Canada announces support to Ipas to protect access to safe abortion and contraception during COVID-19 pandemic

Canada announces support to Ipas to protect access to safe abortion and contraception during COVID-19 pandemic

Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Ipas

The global coronavirus outbreak is a major threat to the health of women and girls globally and is anticipated to disproportionately affect low-resource settings where barriers to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care already existed. Today, the government of Canada affirmed that the failure to meet women’s and girls’ urgent SRH needs, including abortion, is a denial of basic rights to health, autonomy, and gender equality.

Through rapid funding from Global Affairs Canada, Ipas will work in select countries in the global south to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by:

Continued: https://www.ipas.org/news/2020/June/canada-announces-support-to-ipas-to-protect-access-to-safe-abortion-and-contraception-during-covid-19-pandemic

10.06.2020

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Behind Vancouver’s massive and mysterious Women Deliver conference

Behind Vancouver's massive and mysterious Women Deliver conference

Penney Kome
June 18, 2019

Hardly anyone local was prepared when a New York-based organization named Women Deliver swept into Vancouver in early June to discuss gender equality with 8,000 political leaders, advocates, academics and journalists from 165 countries -- and another 100,000 people globally participating online -- and then swept out again. Wait! Who was that masked stranger?

What made the conference (and the organization) really daring though, was the subject: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). If a Women Deliver conference was held in an anti-abortion jurisdiction -- say, the state of Alabama -- the whole state might implode in frustration.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/other-hand/2019/06/behind-vancouvers-massive-and-mysterious-women-deliver-conference