IPPF EN and Member Associations from Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Türkiye have created a written input to the EU Enlargement package reflecting developments during the 2025 reporting year within the relevant chapters of the acquis. The report highlights ongoing barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender equality and provides recommendations to strengthen SRHR as a fundamental set of rights and a precondition for achieving gender equality.
Through its annual Enlargement Reports and consultations with civil society organisations (CSOs), the European Commission plays a key role in promoting respect for human rights in candidate countries, as part of the Copenhagen criteria. The findings of these reports are widely used by activists and advocates to advance human rights at local and national levels. This report aims to support the European Commission in assessing developments and the level of protection of SRHR as democracy right in these countries.
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