“Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for the next decades: what’s been achieved? what lies ahead?” — A side event at the 48th Session of the Commission on Population and Development co-sponsored by DAWN, and the governments of the Republic of Philippines and the Kingdom of Denmark on April 13, 2015 at the UN headquarters in New York.
This event launched aspecial Issue of the journal ‘Global Public Health’, the product of a two-year long project, coordinated by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, DAWN, which has brought together a number of key researchers and analysts in the SRHR field to write papers and commentaries on what has been achieved so far on SRHR. It takes a fresh look at the evidence from low and middle income countries on progress made towards the SRHR agenda and how this agenda should guide and be integrated into the framing of sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The event was moderated by Jens Ole Hansen from the mission of Denmark to the UN.  The speakers were Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, Dr. Juan Antonio Perez from the Philippines Population Commission, Carmen Barroso from IPPF/WHR, Ms. Saida Ali from the International Health Coalition and Dr. Gita Sen, General Coordinator of DAWN.
The event was attended by 70 participants from governments, UN agencies and civil society organizations.
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This research project was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Center (IDRC). All manuscripts can be viewed and downloaded for free at this link: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgph20/10/2#.VRnn7MtxkuQ