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It will not be much longer before we know how the international community thinks the world should change, and how much we will support each other to do this.

Karachi- 26 feb 2014: In Pakistan’s Sindh Province, the Peoples Assembly is preparing to pass a new bill, raising the age limit for marriage from 16 to 18 years old, Ms. Qaimkhani, Provincial Minister of Social Welfare and Women Development announced.

A delegation from Burundi are in Nairobi to learn from their Kenian colleagues about comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and how it can best be taught in secondary schools. In July a group of young people, UN officials and government and civil society representatives from Burundi are in Nairobi to visit the Centre for the Study of Adolescence (CSA). This Rutgers partner organisation is implementing the comprehensive sexuality education programme the World Starts with Me (WSWM) in schools in Kenya.

The World Association of Sexual Health (WAS) has awarded Doortje Braeken – IPPF’s Senior Adviser on Adolescents, Gender and Rights, Programmes & Technical - their prestigious individual Gold Medal in recognition of her lifetime’s contribution to sexual health.

On this blog, Kelvin Mokaya reflects on the journey his advocacy work had taken him: from his hometown in Kenya to the UN High-level Political Forum 2016 in New York. Kelvin is currently at New York advocating for meaningful youth participation to make sure that young people reap the full benefits of the SDGs.

Today is a day to draw global attention to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), which is our expertise! With 50 years of experience Rutgers is a leader in this field. Our researcher, Miranda van Reeuwijk explains the impact of our unique approach of combining research, advocacy and interventions - nationally and internationally.

November 12 to 15, Rutgers will lead a number of key activities the 5th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), which takes place in Kigali, Rwanda. This year’s conference is focused on the theme, Investing for a Lifetime of Returns, which draws upon sustainable strategies to reach the goal of enabling an additional 120 million women to access voluntary, quality contraception by 2020.

Johnstone Kuya talks about his experience and challenges working as a National Coordinator in Kenya for the programme Get Up, Speak Out (GUSO), one of Rutgers’ key programmes. In this programme six alliance partners are collaborating in seven countries to improve young people’s sexual health and rights.

In 1994 governments signed the historical ICPD Programme of Action. This agreement positioned human rights at the centre of sustainable development, and recognised reproductive rights as human rights. Now, exactly 25 years later, the Right Here Right Now strategic partnership has published a Shadow Report highlighting achievements and room for improvement.

Le Manuel des Services Essentiels est un guide complet qui vous accompagnera vers la mise en œuvre réussie de vos programmes destinés aux jeunes et portant sur les droits en matière de santé sexuelle et reproductive.

The Yes I Do Alliance (YIDA) has again completed a year with good results. The number of child marriages has decreased, alternative ceremonies have been held (instead of female circumcision), trainings have been given and lobbying is progressing. The annual report gives insight into what was achieved last year.

On July 17th, PSTC in cooperation with the othe Hello I Am partners succesfuly launched the programme during a festive event in Dhaka. The Hello, I Am programme is enabling young people in Bangladesh to break harmful social norms and have more say in decisions about their futures.

Indonesia's parliament raised the minimum age at which a girl can marry from 16 to 19, in a ruling which is expected to curb child marriage in the country.

Every year 25 million women undergo an unsafe abortion and between 22,500 and 44,000 women worldwide die from the complications. She Makes Her Safe Choice works to reduce these devastating numbers by providing women with a safe choice.

Rutgers is seeking an external evaluator for Hello I Am programme in Bangladesh.

About 150 young SRHR leaders from 19 cities across Pakistan participated in the two-day ‘Youth Ask Leadership Conclave 2014’, organized by Rutgers Pakistan. The event allows young people to become the face of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) initiatives at national and international events.

Kampala, Uganda - Today nearly half of the World’s population – around 3 billion people- are under the age of 25. As these young people become sexually active, sexual and reproductive health services are under increasing pressure.

KAMPALA - The government has been called on to embark an inclusive health care system to help reduce the number of unsafe abortions among mostly young Ugandans. In fact, youths and the civil society are demanding for a law to legalize abortion for cases that are extreme and unavoidable. During a an Inter-Generational Dialogue (IGD) in Kampala recently, students and other youths that attended the meet argued that many pregnancies are as a result of inevitable circumstances like defilement and rape.

Sex under the age of 25 is a large representative study of Dutch adolescents’ sexual health with a participatory action approach, which Rutgers conducted in 2012. In 2005, a comparable study was carried out.

Fourteen-year-old Zeba wakes early in the morning with her younger siblings Saira and Hina. The girls get dressed, comb their hair and leave their home at 7.30 am; they are not headed to their school, but to help their mother who works as a maid at several houses in the capital. “In a conservative society like Pakistan a girl usually has to face discrimination right from the moment her family learns that a mother-to-be is pregnant with a baby girl,” said Rutgers's Qadeer Baig.