Women’s Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights

SC Briefing Report on SRHR, June 2025

Advancing Women and Girls’ Health in a Time of Converging Crises

South Centre Briefing Session (April 2025) Report

The South Centre hosted a high-level briefing session aimed at advancing the health rights of women and girls in the face of multiple global challenges. The meeting coincided with the South Centre’s 30th anniversary and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, bringing together ambassadors, health experts, and representatives of international organisations to discuss the protection and advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the Global South.

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SC Statement to WHA78 Agenda Item 13.9, 26 May 2025

Statement by the South Centre to the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly

Agenda Item 13.9: Global strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health

26 May 2025

We support the implementation of the Global Strategy 2016 – 2030, with increased and sustained financing, towards meeting the health needs and realizing the rights of all women, children and adolescents.

Key interventions include expanding immunization coverage, promoting breastfeeding, improving nutrition, advancing gender equality, and advancing sexual and reproductive health information and services for women and adolescents.

We strongly support the resolution regulating the digital marketing of breast-milk substitutes.

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