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Rutgers is seeking an external evaluator for Hello I Am programme in Bangladesh, a four-year programme in Bangladesh aiming to reduce rates of child marriage, school drop-out and teenage pregnancy in six upazilas (sub-districts). Hello I Am will end in 2020.

This November, the Nairobi Summit took place in Kenya. Young advocate, Ligia DeStephen from Honduras attended, as part of our Right Here Right Now (RHRN) programme. Ligia looks back at an inspirational experience in Nairobi, and will continue to hold her government to account for the commitments it made during the Summit.

It's two years since the #MeToo movement started. From Monday, 25 November, organisations all over the world, under the name 'Orange the world', will campaign for 16 days for the prevention of violence against women. Rutgers will also colour orange and will advocate for more focus on the prevention of sexual harassment and violence, in the Netherlands and abroad.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the ICPD Programme of Action. This occasion is marked with the Nairobi Summit, held in November 2019, a high level conference convened to advance the further implementation of the Programme of Action. Besides the global statement and national commitments made by governments, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) take this opportunity to share their commitments. Find Rutgers' commitments below.

From September 30 to October 2 2019, the first International Conference on Indonesia Family Planning and Reproductive Health took place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This conference was co-hosted by Rutgers WPF Indonesia and was a forum to discuss the current status of SRHR in Indonesia, as well as an opportunity for valuable exchange on this topic. Scroll through the photos below for an impression of this event.

The attacks on sexuality. That is the theme of the Johannes Rutgers Dialogue 2019. Which attacks are they? There are actually many of them, interconnected in unexpected and complex ways.

Rigid gender norms have negative effects on both girls and boys, and inhibit Indonesia from fully benefiting from its economic growth potential, also known as the demographic dividend. These are key results from the Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) and the Youth Voices Research conducted in Indonesia as part of the pioneering research and advocacy programme, Explore4Action. The findings were presented today during the first International Conference on Indonesia Family Planning and Reproductive Health (ICIFPRH) being held from 30 September to 2 October in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

We are proud to announce our collaboration with Reproductive Health Network Kenya (RHNK). Through global collaboration in the She Makes Her Safe Choice programme, we aim to realize the goal of having zero unsafe abortions worldwide by making safe abortion widely available, accessible and affordable to all the women and girls who need it.

Every year 25 million women undergo an unsafe abortion and between 22,500 and 44,000 women worldwide die from the complications. She Makes Her Safe Choice works to reduce these devastating numbers by providing women with a safe choice.

Last week’s announcement that Indonesia’s new penal code will include a number of very regressive articles, is extremely worrying and threatens the sexual and reproductive health and rights of all. The draft law includes the criminalisation of unmarried people living together, homosexuality, safe abortion and sharing information on contraception. Rutgers is gravely concerned by this drastic proposal, and stands in support of those opposing its ratification.