Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Washington DC, USA
From the Global Women's Network
| Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Washington DC, USA | |
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| Logo: |  |
| Street address: | 1317 F Street, NW
Suite 400 |
| City: | Washington |
| State or Province: | DC |
| Country: | United States |
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| Location coordinates: | 38° 53' 51" N, 77° 1' 49" WLatitude: 38.8974548 Longitude: -77.0303436 |
| Executive Director: | Serra Sippel |
| Contact number: | (202) 393-5930 |
| Contact email: | change@genderhealth.org |
| Website: | http://www.genderhealth.org |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/genderhealth |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/genderhealth |
| Target: | Girls and Women |
| Organization type: | National NGO (operating countrywide or advocating at the national level) |
| Sectors: | Gender Discrimination, Health, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights |
| Year founded/registered: | 1994 |
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Summary
The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) is a U.S.-based non-governmental organization whose mission is to ensure that U.S. international policies and programs promote women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health within a human rights framework.
About
CHANGE believes that every individual has the right to basic information, technologies, and services needed to enjoy a healthy and safe sexual and reproductive life free from coercion and preventable illness. CHANGE envisions a world where sexual and reproductive health and rights are universally recognized and sexual and reproductive health care is accessible and available to all.
History
In 1994, the United States and nearly 180 other countries gathered in Cairo at the International Conference on Population Development (ICPD) and committed--for the first time--to promoting and protecting women's and girls' sexual and reproductive rights as a universal human right. CHANGE, then known as the Health Development and Policy Project, was founded immediately following the ICPD to hold the U.S. government accountable for that commitment. Since becoming an independent non-profit organization in 2001, CHANGE has expanded the breadth and depth of its policy and advocacy work to focus on both the executive and legislative branches, and to encompass a range of issues that affect sexual and reproductive rights and health.
Activities
Currently, CHANGE's main objective is to promote a woman-centered, human rights-based framework for all U.S. foreign policies and programs. The framework is designed to reflect CHANGE’s most basic belief—that women’s rights are human rights.
As a part of the framework, CHANGE advocates for:
Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights education and services in all U.S. international policy and programming; Integrated sexual and reproductive health services in all HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, family planning, and maternal health programs; Facts- and evidence-based research as the basis of all U.S. international policy and programming.
Needs
DONATE
Your generous support sustains our work on behalf of women and girls worldwide. Federal employees can contribute through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), #62113. Your donations are put to work by:
•Facilitating our research and analysis •Connecting decision makers with international advocates •Putting CHANGE resources into the hands of policy makers •Providing advocacy training and tools for the next generation of leaders •Building a movement of U.S. and international advocates
TELL A FRIEND
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TAKE ACTION
Take Action on the Global Gag RuleJoin your voice with others and urge your member of Congress to co-sponsor the Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2011, a bill that would create a legislative barrier to block attempts by a future administration to re-instate the Global Gag Rule.
Raise your voice for the Global Sexual and Reproductive Health ActAsk your Representative to co-sponsor the Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act (H.R. 1319), newly introduced legislation that promotes a truly comprehensive and integrated approach to U.S. international reproductive health programs.
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