Gender Based Violence & Sexual and Reproductive Rights

FAR, committed in strengthening the use of human rights instruments and women’s human rights mechanisms to enhance women’s advocacy, is leading a global consultation process in Africa, Asia, Latin America and MENA to produce submissions for the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls’ forthcoming thematic report on sexual and reproductive health and rights in times of crisis and insecurity. The Working Group’s report will be presented to the Human Rights Council in 2021.

FAR, which represents women from the Global South and marginalized communities in the Global North, will prepare its submission to the Working Group once the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) formally requires contributions in mid-year. We aim our report helps to deconstruct and analyze the reciprocal relationships between crisis, gender based-violence (GBV), sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), economic policy and SRHR services in contexts of crisis and human insecurity.

“The current travel ban is really a Muslim ban,” Arab Feminists Re-Frame Peace and Security

A report on FAR’s first public panel discussion, ahead of the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women(CSW) The 61st Session of the CSW (CSW61) begins today at the United Nations in New York, against a backdrop of much political tension around immigration issues, refugee rights and other human rights concerns set in motion by a Trump […]

Rearticulating Our Feminist Struggles

What are the current and emerging issues that are likely to shape our world in the next 15 years and beyond? Who are the people and what are the issues that are left behind by the new sustainable development agenda? Where do these people and issues intersect? What are the challenges and barriers that hold back the full realization of […]

Climate Change and SRHR (Post-2015 Policy Brief)

This brief considers how climate change will affect universal access to SRHR and that the implications have profound ramifications for the new developmental era. Introduction Globally, we are already witnessing and experiencing the onset of climate change. There is mounting evidence that climate change will have disastrous consequences for people and the planet. Climate change is one of the central […]