Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

🌏 Climate justice is reproductive justice. But right now, our systems are failing women and girls.

In this powerful SRHM blog, Thoai D. Ngo (Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health), Neha Mankani (International Confederation of Midwives), Nicole Haberland (Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health), Martha Schaaf (Amnesty International), Aleya Khalifa (Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health), Allan A. Maleche (KELIN), Eszter Kismődi (SRHM), Sai Jyothirmai Racherla (ARROW), and Sapna Desai (SRHM) unpack how climate crises are deepening inequalities in s*xual and reproductive health and rights, and why integrated, rights-based responses are urgently needed.

👉 Read the blog: https://www.srhm.org/news/climate-justice-is-reproductive-justice-but-our-systems-are-failing-women-and-girls/

This commentary builds on insights from our recent webinar on environmental justice and SRHR, exploring cross-sector solutions in the face of intersecting crises.

🎧 Watch the webinar or listen on the SRHM Podcast: https://www.srhm.org/news/intersecting-crises-and-cross-sector-solutions-environmental-justice-and-srhr/

New episode of the SRHM Podcast 🎧

Eszter Kismődi speaks with Neil Datta (EPF) to unpack the evolving landscape of anti-gender and anti-rights movements.

🌍 Drawing on new analysis from the European Parliamentary Forum, the episode reveals a highly coordinated, well-funded and increasingly sophisticated ecosystem shaping policy, knowledge and even service delivery. From “gender ideology” narratives to faith-based science and transnational advocacy, these actors are influencing not only SRHR, but wider democratic systems.

Understanding these strategies is key to building effective, evidence-based responses.

Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube, or at srhm.org.

“They’re not used to people asking what they need.”

💙 In contexts where abortion is criminalised, feminist accompaniers are quietly transforming care.

🌎 In this qualitative study from Brazil, Nathália Machado Cardoso, Naomi Braine and Ana Flávia Pires Lucas D’Oliveira explore how abortion accompaniment is practised as a deeply relational, ethical, and political form of care.

Accompaniers centre each person as a subject with knowledge, needs and agency, rather than a passive patient, combining technical expertise with lived, collective experience.

✊ Their work challenges fragmented, medicalised models by offering continuous, tailored support before, during and after abortion. Rooted in solidarity and justice, accompaniment aims not just for safe outcomes, but for abortion to be a dignified, even positive, experience.

👉 But this care comes at a cost: legal risk, emotional strain, and invisibility threaten its sustainability.

This study calls for health systems to learn from accompaniment — and for policies that recognise and support more humane, people-centred models of abortion care.

Read the paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2026.2660555