SHE & Rights: Closing the gap for safe abortion and other sexual and reproductive health and rights

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Special highlight: Sharing of Adding it up 2024 Guttmacher’s Report findings and interactive costing tools

This 50th session marks 2nd anniversary of SHE & Rights!


We welcome you to the 50th SHE & Rights session on Friday, 18th September 2026 – which also marks 2nd anniversary of hosting SHE & Rights regularly to counter anti-rights pushbacks and advance gender equality and human right to health –by engaging media and other stakeholders, especially in the Global South.

Organised ahead of International Safe Abortion Day (28th September), World Contraception Day (26th September) and to mark Equal Pay Day (18th September), this SHE & Rights session has a special highlight: Sharing of “Adding It Up 2024: Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Asia” report findings and Guttmacher's interactive costing tools, and Guttmacher’s Family Planning Investment Impact Calculator and Safe Abortion Calculator.


This SHE & Rights is hosted by Global Center for Health Diplomacy and Inclusion (CeHDI) and CNS with partners including Guttmacher, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), Asian Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), and Asia Pacific Media Alliance for Health, Gender and Development Justice (APCAT Media).

Date: Friday, 18th September 2026

Time: 12noon South Africa, 3:30pm India

Duration: 90 minutes

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Speakers:

  • Dr Elizabeth A Sully, Director of International Research, Guttmacher Institute
  • Riju Dhakal, Programme Officer, Asian Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW)
  • Nawmi Naz Chowdhury, Executive Director, Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)
  • Jane Nyanjom, Associate Director (Advocacy and Partnerships), Reproductive Health Network Kenya (RHNK)
  • Shobha Shukla, SHE & Rights Coordinator and Host and CNS Executive Director

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