By Lindiwe Zulu, Minister for Social Development, South Africa and Meryame Kitir, Minister for Development Cooperation and Major Cities Policy, Belgium. 

Young people are essential to holding governments, CSOs and movements accountable for SRHR actions and commitments to be effectively achieved for the youth population.

We are delighted to welcome Memory Kachambwa, Executive Director of FEMNET, as new Chair the SheDecides Guiding Group. 

The United States Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v Wade and roll back 50 years of safe abortion access is a catastrophic blow that will impact millions.

At SheDecides+5 - the celebration of five years of the SheDecides movement - governments reaffirmed their support for SheDecides.

Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is the cornerstone to creating a safer, more inclusive and more gender-equal world, where all young people have access to good health, well-being and quality education. 

Julia Bunting: As President of the Population Council—a US-based nonprofit committed to ensuring people have the information, services and supplies to advance their sexual and reproductive health and rights — I am proud to join my fellow SheDecides champions in Brussels. Together, we will celebrate the victories of the past five years, redouble our efforts in the face of emerging attacks on bodily autonomy, and set our priorities for the next five years.

When young people are meaningfully included, they build their capacity, ensure their continued access to discussions and decision-making spaces, assert their agency, and hold decision makers to account, say the SheDecides Youth Accountability Panel (Chrisly, Christina, Daniel, Evelyn, Gaearóid, Juliana, Mogau, Pushpa and Rym)