In the developing world 220 million women want contraception but can’t get it. As a result many women become vulnerable to unplanned pregnancy and have the risk of seeing their child die from poverty. All individuals should be able to decide the size of their family and who they live with. This is essential to end poverty and create a more sustainable world. We’re lobbying the UN to end gender inequality so that all people have the ability to say “I decide about my body”. Take the pledge today!
In the early 1950s, a group of women and men started to campaign vociferously and visibly for women’s rights to control their own fertility.
Family planning as a human right challenged many social conventions. Campaigners faced great hostility to gain acceptance for things that we take for granted today. Some were imprisoned. But they emerged determined to work with different cultures, traditions, laws and religious attitudes to improve the lives of women around the world. And so, at the 3rd International Conference on Planned Parenthood in 1952, 8 national family planning associations founded the International Planned Parenthood Federation. IPPF.
60 years later, the charity is a Federation of 152 Member Associations, working in 172 countries. It runs 65,000 service points worldwide. In 2011, those facilities delivered over 89 million sexual and reproductive health services.
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