On 23-24 March, youth advocates and youth-serving organisations from the region convened in Bangkok for the Pre-APFSD 2018 Youth Forum, which continues the discussion from last year’s Youth Forum, focusing on the implementation of the Agenda 2030 in Asia-Pacific. This youth statement was the result of the discussions between the youth participants, looking at the […]

This is the Hindi translation of the ARROW for Change – SRHR in the Era of the SDGs. For the English version, click here.  Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) opens the door for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) agenda to move forward on the global stage; in line with recent […]

The practice of child marriage in Malaysia enjoys a status of legality with registration of marriages involving those below 18 sanctioned explicitly and given exceptions under Islamic and civil laws. According to the 2010 Population and Housing Census, there were 152,835 persons aged 15-19 in a marriage, and unlike in some countries where the practice […]

Women Speak out About Religion and Rights is a compilation of personal stories by and from ten brave women. They have stood up against patriarchy and rigid interpretations of religion to reclaim their Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Read on or listen in to our podcasts below to know about their tales of fortitude […]

Pakistan launched its family planning programme in mid-1950s. In 1990, the government launched a comprehensive Population Welfare Programme which became a major social action element in the provision of maternal and reproductive health services. Later, the government launched Family Planning and Primary Health Care programme (1994) and reached out to rural households through Lady Health […]

India continues to be the second most populous country in the world with a population of 1210 million; 623.7 million males and 586.5 million females as on 1st March 2011. Unlike in previous decades, there has been a significant decline in population growth rate in the last decade. The decadal growth rate has declined from […]

The world is seeing a resurgence of religious extremism at national, regional, and global levels, which renews the threat to many of the rights that would be achieved and concretised such as equality of women, of citizens who belong to ethnic and religious minorities, and of sexual minorities. Amid this troubling development, ARROW has published […]

Indonesia is an archipelago of approximately 17,000 islands, with a total population of 239 million people (2010 census).The country is home to about 1,340 ethnicities with different views on gender and sexuality issues and varying degrees of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including relevant healthcare services. About 49.79% of the people […]

The current paper is the Indonesian translation of the Country Profile on Universal Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRR), which looks at the challenges and issues on rights to access to SRH services, including contraception, comprehensive sexuality education, and legality of abortion amidst the diverse cultural and geographical background of the archipelago country.

This Scorecard for women and girls SRHR in Africa – produced by AIDS Accountability International in partnership with ARROW and Ford Foundation –  is a research report using the AAI Scorecard methodology and an accountability lens to create transparency, stimulate dialogue and provoke action around the state of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) […]