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Access to and availability of contraception

We therefore commit to ensuring “zero” unmet needs for access to and the availability of: information on contraception and modern, high-quality, safe and affordable contraception, including in situations of crisis or humanitarian emergency.

Information systems

We therefore commit to producing disaggregated data that takes into account the aforementioned socially vulnerable people, and to improving our information, registration and internal and external monitoring systems, in order for the design and improvement of the management of public policies to be based on evidence, to achieve sustainable development.

Recognition, justice and development for women of African descent

Prioritize actions in favour of women of African descent with the aim of ensuring that their rights, cultural identity, participation and access to justice are recognized, in order to advance the fulfilment of our rights in the framework of the Decade for People of African Descent for the implementation of positive measures to reverse or change the inequalities they face due to structural racism, with an intersectional and intergenerational approach. That policies and actions include the...

(1)  Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

Strengthening women’s capacity for advocacy in Latin America and the Caribbean for the fulfilment of the Montevideo Consensus in situations of political and humanitarian crisis.

We consider it a priority to ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, which is plagued by political instability, democratic breakdowns, social conflicts, human rights violations, and human mobility and migration processes. In accordance with the above, we undertake to form several alliances with organizations and networks both within and outside of the region, including those beyond the women’s health movement, with bodies of the United Nations...

(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

INTERGENERATIONAL AND MULTICULTURAL DIALOGUE TO PROMOTE MULTILEVEL ADVOCACY FOR ABORTION IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

We are committed to creating processes for intergenerational and multicultural dialogue to strengthen multilevel advocacy for abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean, in order to: 1) Organize collective processes to strengthen women's movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will enable international, regional and national abortion advocacy strategies to be formed. 2) Drive innovative campaigns and demands that promote cultural change on the right to decide. 3) Advocate before...

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.

Mode of engagement:

• Programmatic action

HEALING BODIES THROUGH ADVOCACY: "A VITAL ACT FOR FEMALE ADVOCATES OF SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN"

Female advocates of sexual and reproductive health and rights require special attention on human rights advocacy issues. Despite being in a high-risk situation and being victims of different types of violations of their fundamental rights, they are still not formally or legally subject to protection, which prevents the full details of their situation from being known, adequate protection methods from being proposed, and concrete support from international bodies and national governments from...

(9) Building peaceful, just and inclusive societies, where no one is left behind, where all, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, language, ethnic origin, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, feel valued and are able to shape their own destiny and contribute to the prosperity of their societies.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

Political and community leadership to accelerate the commitment to people of African descent in the Americas and the Caribbean.

The Permanent Council of Afrodescendants of the Americas and the Caribbean (COPAFRO) is committed to the overall objective of political and community leadership to accelerate the commitment. As such, the specific actions that this political body could commit to establishing for 2020 includes a line of social and political advocacy that promotes, for the next three years, in the 42 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the full and effective implementation of the intergovernmental...

(9) Building peaceful, just and inclusive societies, where no one is left behind, where all, irrespective of race, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, language, ethnic origin, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, feel valued and are able to shape their own destiny and contribute to the prosperity of their societies.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

Girls and adolescents free from sexual violence and forced child pregnancy and motherhood in LAC.

Promote the ensured provision of age-appropriate comprehensive sex education in order to prevent sexual violence against children and adolescents, respecting their evolving autonomy and status as subjects of the law and their special protection, incorporating it into compulsory school curricula, as well as training for at least 150 skilled teachers each year, in order to reduce the prevalence of sexual violence against children, eradicate forced and unplanned pregnancies and contribute to...

(4) Access for all adolescents and youth, especially girls, to comprehensive and age-responsive information, education and adolescent-friendly comprehensive, quality and timely services to be able to make free and informed decisions and choices about their sexuality and reproductive lives, to adequately protect themselves from unintended pregnancies, all forms of sexual and  gender-based violence and harmful practices, sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, to facilitate a safe transition into adulthood.

Mode of engagement:

• Policy and guidance

Every woman and girl must be free to decide without being forced to continue a pregnancy as a result of laws that criminalize abortion.

By 2030, CLACAI will work alongside 150 member organizations in their actions to fight for and achieve the total decriminalization of abortion in four countries; expand the grounds permitted in eight countries and eradicate the total ban on abortion in the region; have mifepristone registered as an essential medicine for obstetric use in 10 countries; and ensure 15 countries have protocols for treating girls under the age of 15 with unintended pregnancies, ensuring universal, stigma-free and...

(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.

Modes of engagement:

• Policy and guidance
• Programmatic action

SPAIN'S STATEMENT AT ICPD25

I would like to begin by thanking the governments of Denmark and Kenya for organizing the new International Conference on Population and Development and by expressing our support for the joint statement made by South Africa on behalf of a number of countries, including Spain.

The International Conference on Population and Development that took place in Cairo 25 years ago was a landmark event with significant outcomes: setting out that people’s rights are key to development; declaring...

(1)  Intensify our efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD, the outcomes of its reviews, and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.