Featured Perspectives | IPPF Europe & Central Asia

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Featured Perspectives | 2 June 2025

Sex workers have led the fight for rights and justice. Now it's time to stand together.

It’s getting undeniably tougher to defend SRHR and social justice in 2025. Hungary has enacted the EU’s first ban on Pride.

Featured Perspectives | 8 May 2024

Ending Female Genital Mutilation, at the crossroads of different struggles

Fighting FGM in Europe: the need for intersectionality On May 7th,

European Network

Featured Perspectives | 12 September 2022

Everyone has the right to a healthy life – and the European Commission can make this a reality

No matter where you live, who you love or the content of your wallet, you have the right to the highest attainable standard of health, to gender equality and to health equity.

Poland

Featured Perspectives | 27 January 2022

Poland's virtual abortion ban harms women and paralyses doctors

Today marks one year since the Polish government virtually abolished access to abortion care on the basis of an illegal, disputed decision by the country’s constitutional tribunal.

Hungary, Poland

Featured Perspectives | 13 December 2021

Legislating hate: anti-LGBTQI* politics in Europe today

High on the list of things that Viktor Orban doesn’t want you to know: homosexuality is a Hungarian invention. Before human rights campaigner Karl-Maria Kertbeny sat down to w

European Network

Featured Perspectives | 25 November 2021

Sex without consent is rape – so why are governments failing to act?

“Sex without consent is rape”. This statement sounds self-evident. And yet our laws and our lived experiences show that it is still far from being universally recognized and understood.

Poland