Knowledge is power.
These resources are here to help you make your voice heard, mobilize your community, and influence policies. Here you’ll find fact sheets, briefs, and stories that will equip you defend sexual and reproductive rights.
ADVOCACY TOOLS
Freedom Starts With Her: An Advocacy Primer
This primer provides you with the background, facts, and talking points you need to start conversations—with friends and family, in your community, and even with lawmakers. When you advocate, you help make sure women and girls everywhere can live with dignity, shape their futures, and exercise freedom.
FACT SHEETS
Recommendations for U.S. Foreign Policy Action to End FGM/C
The loss of American leadership on ending FGM/C has left a vacuum where vital supports once stood for access to education, women’s economic empowerment, and health services for girls and their families. U.S. policymakers must reassert leadership and take decisive action to end this harmful practice. Learn more and amplify these recommendations to your Members of Congress and the State Department.
The Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act
The Saving Lives and Taxpayer Dollars Act would prevent the unnecessary destruction and waste of foreign assistance commodities—including food, medicine and medical devices—by ensuring that they are delivered to intended recipients before they spoil or expire.
REPORTS
Learn about the evolution of Republican support of U.S. involvement in international family planning and reproductive health and a governmental role in providing contraceptives, a history long forgotten — or never fully known — by many in and outside of the United States.
WEBSITES
The Global Gag Rule is a policy that risks women’s health and lives by forcing nongovernmental organizations outside of the United States to choose between receiving U.S. global health assistance and providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care. Learn more about the history of the Global Gag Rule, its unprecedented expansions by President Trump as well as the Global HER Act, which would permanently repeal this harmful policy.