Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are key to gender equality and to individual’s full participation in society. As long as girls and women do not have control over their own bodies and as long as there is limited access to safe delivery, contraceptives, prevention of gender-based violence or safe abortion there will be no sustainable development and no eradication of poverty. SRHR are currently being denied or restricted in many parts of the world. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) formally recognized, in 1994 in Cairo, that reproductive rights were linked to human rights already protected under international law. In 2018 The Guttmacher Lancet Commission put forward a new and holistic and integrated definition of SRHR. This definition is embraced by Sida. Find here their report:
Overall network goal:
To build a more coordinated and effective cross-sectoral (research, policy, practitioners, programming) Swedish response to improve SRHR globally
Vision:
The sexual and reproductive health and rights of all are respected, protected and fulfilled without discrimination
Mission:
Promoting global SRHR and development by connecting people, ideas and resources
If interested to join or learn more about the platform, please contact:
Coordinator:
Sara Österlund, RFSU
E-mail
+46 70 339 23 03
Become a member of the Swedish platform for SRHR issues and join any of the 5 working groups of the network. If you are a member and interested in engaging, please contact the focal point of “your” group:
In 2018, Government Offices of Sweden launched a framework for Sweden’s work on global health –implementing the 2030 Agenda. For its implementation thematic Swedish Networks for Global Health grew organically. The added value of these networks is the enabling of multisectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration around global health, allowing a large number of Swedish actors to come together through coordinated and joint action.
In 2019, the Swedish Platform for Global SRHR Issues network was initiated. The network coordinator is RFSU. A steering group supports the coordinator in the strategic development of the network and in the initiation of activities. SIGHT supports the overall work with the Swedish Networks for Global Health and stimulates synergies between thematic areas and networks.
Sara Österlund, coordinator, Swedish platform for global Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues What activities has the platform carried out during the autumn?
From a global perspective, the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls is improving. At the same time, people’s rights in certain countries are threatened by conservative forces. The defence of the right of all people to control their bodies and sexuality is one of Sida’s key issues.
To be updated.
This event is co-sponsored by the UN LGBTI Core Group. Information and registration here
To students and young people from all backgrounds and disciplines: join the annual student-led forum
All platform members are most welcome to join the ANSER Stakeholder meeting 24th of November,
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Participation via Zoom. The webinar is organized by the Platform’s working Group on Religious and
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“No Exceptions, No Exclusions: Realizing sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice for all”. Exactly 2 years ago, the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 was organized to mobilize the commitments needed to fully implement the ICPD Programme of Action. The new report analyses what has happened since, including how countries have kept their promises to SRHR.
A New Global Fund Strategy (2023–2028) has been adopted by the Board of the Global Fund. Sweden annually contributes close to 1 billion SEK to the Global Fund. The strategy sets out how the Global Fund partnership aims to contribute to a world free of the burden of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, with better, more equitable health for all. The new Strategy includes a stronger focus on gender equality and SRHR than previous strategies.
The cost-effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health and rights interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review by Andrea Hannah Kaiser: Björn Ekman; Madeleine Dimarco &Jesper Sundewall. Includes economic evaluations of the essential SRHR interventions in the comprehensive package presented by the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on SRHR
Understanding Sexual Agency. Implications for Sexual Health Programming. A comprehensive, inclusive description of sexual agency is proposed, focusing on the navigation of goals and desires in the wider structural context, and acknowledging the many forms sexual agency may take.
Sexual Health and Wellbeing through the Life Course: Ensuring Sexual Health, Rights and Pleasure for All, International Journal of Sexual Health. A life course approach to illustrate how the tripartite of sexual health, rights and pleasure manifest themselves with different interlocking linkages, and actively contribute to overall health throughout life.
Adolescent girls in the climate crises. Plan International (2021). Results from Feminist Participatory Action Research on how climate change impacts adolescent girls’ and young women in Zambia and Zimbabwe, including its impact on education, menstrual health, CEFM, sexual violence.
A case study by SOAWR: Faith leadership in civil society collaboration towards adoption of the EAC SRHR Bill on how Faith to Action Network has facilitated faith leadership and faith community interactions with the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), in order to expand the Bill’s coverage and address the contentious issues.
The purpose of SIGHT is to use an interdisciplinary approach to promote Swedish research and education, and to provide a scientific basis for policy work in the field of global health.
