Dear SRHM Community,
As another transformative year comes to a close, we at SRHM extend our heartfelt gratitude to our community of advocates, researchers, and partners who work tirelessly to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.
This year has brought challenges and breakthroughs, reminding us of the resilience and power of collective action. Your dedication has fueled critical conversations, amplified marginalized voices, and paved the way for meaningful change.
This newsletter highlights just some of the latest work we have been doing over the last two months. We are proud to present a robust journal and our dedicated efforts to turning knowledge into action. Today, as the field faces challenges that threaten to turn back progress in securing the SRHR of current and future generations, SRHM stands even stronger with a sharpened vision and commitment. With our partners all around the world working in multiple languages, we continue to reposition and strengthen the role of rights- and evidence-based knowledge.
As we look forward to 2025, we are excited to continue advancing this mission with your support. Please see our calls for papers below and join us in shaping a world where everyone's sexual and reproductive health and rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled.
In solidarity,
Eszter Kismödi, Jane Cottingham and Sapna Desai
Chief Executive and Co-Chairs of the Board of Trustees of SRHM | | | ONLINE NOW The continuing fight for abortion rights: Taking stock of the evidence This collection showcases over 30 articles from the SRHM journal, features a new editorial by SRHM and also highlights the gaps in current evidence, calling for research, discussion and analysis. | | | On Human Rights Day 2024, SRHM launched a special journal collection, The Continuing Fight for Abortion Rights: Taking Stock of the Evidence. United by a shared global purpose, SRHM joined forces with regional institutions and partners and co-organized five online events to delve into the unique challenges and opportunities shaping abortion rights worldwide. Together, we examined hard-won gains and persistent setbacks, united by our unwavering commitment to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and ensuring safe abortion access for all, regardless of language, region, or context. These events drew from the SRHM Abortion Collection and previous RHM/SRHM publications to critically assess the current state of abortion rights. Across languages and borders, they underscored a shared vision: a world where safe abortion is guaranteed for everyone. Each event culminated in a powerful call for papers, rallying researchers and advocates to generate the evidence needed to propel the safe abortion movement forward. Together, we are shaping a future where human rights and evidence-based knowledge drives the fight for sexual and reproductive justice. Recordings of these events are available below. Stay tuned for the forthcoming call for papers, informed by these rich regional dialogues, to chart the next steps in advancing abortion rights worldwide. | | | ONLINE NOW Open issue 2024 The papers in the open issue are published throughout the year on a continuous basis and alongside the themed issues.
We publish a wide range of article types from across the spectrum of SRHR. | | RECENTLY PUBLISHED Service providers' perspectives and reproductive (in)justice among Roma women: a qualitative study in Spain María Félix Rodríguez-Camacho, María José Sanchís-Ramón, Gaby Ortiz Barreda
& Diana Gil-González Abortion access barriers shared in "r/abortion" after Roe: a qualitative analysis of a Reddit community post-Dobbs decision leak in 2022 Elizabeth Pleasants, Karen Weidert, Lindsay Parham, Emma Anderson, Eliza Dolgins, Coye Cheshire, Cassondra Marshall, Ndola Prata & Ushma Upadhyay Sexual and reproductive health awareness and practices among adolescents and adults in a rural farming community in Baja California, Mexico: a quantitative and qualitative cross-sectional study Cristina Espinosa da Silva, Margarita Santibanez, Adrienne R.S. Lee, Lorena S. Pacheco, Stephanie Brodine, Miguel A. Fraga,Taylor B. Desmarais,Noe C. Crespo, Javier Martínez Hernandez, Marianne McKennett & Richard S. Garfein The (mis)use of evidence in contested rights: commentary on the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls' report on "prostitution and violence" Susana T Fried, Alice M Miller, Rupsa Mallik, Ivana Radačić & Esteban Restrepo-Saldarriaga An intersectional approach on menstrual inequity as lived by women in circumstances of socioeconomic vulnerability in an urban and rural setting in Spain: a qualitative study Josefina Pruneda Paz, Andrea García-Egea, Constanza Jacques-Aviñó, Ana Maria Besoaín Cornejo & Laura Medina-Perucha | | | | WEBINAR The (mis)use of evidence in contested rights
SRHM hosted an important webinar on the (mis)use of evidence on Wednesday 20 November 2024. | | | In this online event, we heard from the authors of the paper 'The (mis)use of evidence in contested rights: the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls' report on "prostitution and violence"' and the Global Co-ordinator of The Global Network of Sex Work Projects. The paper is available online and is open access. | | | WEBINAR Not Just Reproductive: Addressing women's gynaecological health through the life course in South Asia
| | | In collaboration with Study and Action on Hysterectomy: Evidence on women's health through the life course in India (SAHELI) consortium and Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, HENI organized a webinar on 9 December 2024 to initiate a discussion on the multifaceted issues that influence women's gynaecological health in South Asian contexts. | | | Abortion Progress in Mexico: An Analysis of the Past Year
Paulina Macías Ortega
The struggle for abortion decriminalization in Mexico has marked a watershed year in 2024. | | | Rights- and Evidence-based knowledge in legal action
Dipika Jain, Allan Maleche, Mindy Jane Roseman
A roundtable discussion on what we need to effectively use evidence and knowledge for legal and human rights action. | | | Obstetric Violence: A Neglected Gender-Based Abuse in Maternal Healthcare Needs Urgent Attention
Amruta Bavadekar, M. Sivakami
Obstetric violence remains largely invisible in discussions about gender-based violence. | | | My Body, Whose Choice? A Conversation With Avni Amin
Shubhangi Thakur
An interview with Avni Amin from the WHO's Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research on violence against women. | | | Nurturing space for evidence-informed care for LGBTQIA+ persons
A post from the LGBTQIA+ Health and Advocacy Symposium held at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Neuroscience Institute. | | | SRHM welcomes submissions to the 2025 Open Issue The papers in the open issue are published throughout the year on an ongoing, continuous basis. We accept a wide range of article types, including short commentaries, reviews, full research reports, perspectives and book reviews. | | | SRHM is calling for a wide range of forms of evidence related to SRHR in war and armed conflict
Please read more in the link below to the editorial 'Sexual and reproductive health and rights in Palestine – securing spaces to speak out' by Laura Ferguson and Sapna Desai.
| | SRHM is continuing to welcome submissions to the Special Collection on Sexual Pleasure Read the editorial for the Special Collection, written by Paromita Vohra and Anne Philpott, to get insights on what type of submissions are encouraged. | | | RECENTLY RELEASED In order to bring SRHR knowledge to those who need it, we have recently begun to publish AI-generated recordings of full papers from the SRHM Journal. We have also published recordings of papers by the authors themselves. If you are interested in this initiative for your own paper please contact info@srhm.org. | | | |
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