IPPF Director General Dr Alvaro Bermejo attended the Parliamentarians’ Meeting on “ICPD30: Leaving No One Behind in an Ageing World”, which was held in Tokyo on 23 April 2024 at the occasion of 50th anniversary of Japan Parliamentarians Federation for Population (JPFP) along with parliamentarians from 20 countries. This meeting provided an excellent opportunity to look back to the 50 years of collaboration between Japan and IPPF as well as the achievements of the ICPD Plan of Action.
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This is the first time an analysis board membership across 147 global health organizations has been included, alongside the annual analysis of gender-related policies and practices of 200 organizations
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8 March 2021
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has been recognized as a very high scorer in the 2021 Global Health 50/50 Report – a review of the equality and gendered-related policies and practices of 201 global organizations active in health and health policy.
IPPF is one of 12 organizations recognized as a very high scorer, and places IPPF in the top 5% of sample organizations used in the report. The 2021 Global Health 50/50 report focused on four key areas for assessment: commitment to gender equality, gender equality and diversity policies at work, gender and geography of gender health leadership and gender responsive of health policy and programmes.
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30 December 2020
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) welcomes the news of a historic decision by the Senate of the Republic of Argentina approving a national law on legal, safe and free abortion. The law will allow all women and adolescents access to abortion care for up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.
IPPF celebrates the collective effort of thousands of activists, feminists, and grassroots organizations that continued to fight for access to safe and legal abortion care.
With the approval of this law, Argentina will become the fourth country in Latin America to legalize abortion care, joining Cuba, Guyana, and Uruguay.