{"id":3049,"date":"2015-08-12T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T10:57:27","slug":"internationalyouthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/internationalyouthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting Youth Projects in Sexual and Reproductive Health on International Youth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IYD_20152<\/a><\/p>\n

Youth around the world today are tweeting, blogging, posting and using every means available to holler about issues that move them. As the United Nations calls for \u201cYouth Civic Engagement\u201d, we\u2019re reminded once again of how essential the engagement and participation of youth is to achieve sustainable human development.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one knows better than them (youth) the issues at stake or the best way to respond. That is why I am calling on young people to speak out \u2013 and I am urging leaders to listen\u201d. – Ban Ki-moon, UN General Secretary<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Asia Safe Abortion Partnership (ASAP) recognizes the vital role that youth play in influencing social change. Advancing women\u2019s sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) requires young people to push against existing barriers that disempower women from making reproductive health choices of their own.<\/p>\n

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Participants at the ASAP’s Youth Advocacy Training Institute, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ASAP\u2019s Youth Advocacy Institute builds the capacity of youth champions across Asia to do just this. Through these workshops, young advocates for sexual and reproductive health rights are devising their own creative methods to promote women\u2019s autonomy over their own bodies.<\/p>\n

Here are a few highlighted projects that ASAP\u2019s youth champions developed this year. They serve as examples of the potential of youth to influence social change.<\/p>\n

Krishti Aung Leona (Bangladesh):\u00a0<\/strong>Menstrual Regulation for All<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Krishti Aung along with the Bangladesh Assembly of Youth Advocates <\/a>(BAYA) conducted a one day training on \u201cMenstrual Regulation for All\u201d. Although abortion is restricted in Bangladesh, Menstrual Regulation (MR) is used to terminate early pregnancies. The aim of the project was to educate and create social awareness about MR services among young girls and women living in Dhaka slums and those working in garment factories.<\/p>\n

Yu Yang and Sun Xiaoting (China):\u00a0<\/strong>Feminist Forum on Safe Abortion Advocacy <\/strong><\/p>\n

Youth Champions Yu Yang and Sun Xiaoting started a feminist forum to increase visible discussions on gender and women\u2019s rights issues in China. The objective was to create a dynamic feminist network in China by providing thought leadership to women\u2019s rights issues in mainstream and social media and research on whether safe abortion issues have been set on women\u2019s rights agendas of Chinese feminism organizations. They created a platform on Chinese Social Media.\u00a0www.renren.com\/585708176\/profile<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Sarah Soysa (Sri Lanka):\u00a0<\/strong>Video Documentaries<\/strong><\/p>\n

ASAP Youth Champion Sarah Soysa developed two short video documentaries \u2018Its Her Right- to Mr. President\u2019 and \u2018Ensuring Rights: Improving access to SRHR<\/a>\u2019 to highlight the need for safe and legal abortion in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

San Hoang and Nguyen Thi Thao (Vietnam):\u00a0<\/strong>3S \u2013 VALENTINE COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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3S-Valentine is a communication campaign that aims to raise awareness of young people about Sexual Rights and Safe Sex, with the intention of empowering them through improving their knowledge and practice regarding Sexual and Reproductive health. https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whynot.taisaokhong<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarah Jane Biton (Philippines):\u00a0<\/strong>PAC Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sarah Jane set up a \u201cWomen\u2019s Rights Collective\u201d a Post Abortion Care (PAC) advocacy forum to raise awareness on abortion rights among Filipino women. As part of the small grant she also set up a safe abortion blog<\/a> and Facebook page.<\/a>\u00a0The project aims to contribute to raising local awareness regarding abortion rights by conducting community education sessions.<\/p>\n

Minal Singh (Nepal):\u00a0<\/strong>Interaction Program with Media Journalists on Safe abortion and Women Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Minal interacting with journalists during her workshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minal organized an Interaction Program with Journalists on Safe abortion and Women Rights with the objective to advocate for the need of women to be able to fully exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to sensitize media on their role in promoting women\u2019s reproductive rights in Nepal.<\/p>\n

Ignatia Alfa Gloria (Indonesia):\u00a0<\/strong>Mainstreaming SRHR Issue Towards Young People Through Website<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under this project Ignatia organized SRHR and creative writing workshops. The classes were held in partnership with the Communication Science\u2019s lecture in University of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta. A series of workshops were conducted every Saturday from April 2015- May 2015; 15 young people who are passionate about gender and sexuality issues and are willing to write about it participated. See more at: https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/youth-in-indonesia-create-their-own-future-or-talking-about-sex-and-gender-in-indonesia-youth-champion-ignatia\/#sthash.9GovqHYa.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n

Preet Manjusha (India):\u00a0<\/strong>Research Study: impact of the law against sex determination on women\u2019s access to safe abortion in India<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preet conducted a study with private, authorized abortion providers to see why they are denying services to women. Its aim was to understand the complex impact of anti sex selection programs on access to safe abortion in western Maharashtra. This research study was featured in the international journal \u2018Reproductive Health Matters.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Youth around the world today are tweeting, blogging, posting and using every means available to holler about issues that move them. As the United Nations calls for \u201cYouth Civic Engagement\u201d, we\u2019re reminded once again of how essential the engagement and participation of youth is to achieve sustainable human development. \u201cNo one knows better than them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[270,293,434,443,294,442,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-international-conferences","category-asap-internationaldays","category-international-youth-day","category-new-media","category-youth","category-youth-advocacy-institute"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blog-featured-image-logo.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O7nG-Nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}