Françoise Girard – Renowned Personality of the International Women’s Health Coal

1. Françoise Girard –Renowned Personality of the International Women’s Health Coalition Françoise Girardis leader of the International Women’s Health Coalition plus an activist for women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is an attorney by education and training; she was director of the Open Society Foundations Public Health Program from 2006 to 2011. Girard is frequently consulted by UN and intergovernmental agencies and has played a key activist role at UN conferences on population and development, women’s rights, as well as HIV/AIDS. She has printed for journals including the Journal of Adolescent Health as well as Reproductive Health Matters; authored Global Implications of U.S. Domestic and International Policies on Sexuality; and contributed chapters to SexPolitics plus Reproductive Health and Human Rights. What is her role on Sexuality and Child Bearing? The health of women and girls is intimately tied to their right to make informed decisions about sexuality, marriage, plus child-bearing, but the US is stepping back from leadership in this area. For the initial time, the State Department has abolished detailed information about contraception as well as maternal health care in its twelve-monthly country reports on human rights. And the present Administration has reinstated plus broadened the so-called gag rule, which forbids foreign help from going to any organization that discusses abortion as part of its family planning activities. What is the brunt on reproductive health services along with the organizations that offer them? What is she doing now? Françoise Girard now supports the Civil Society External Advisory Panel of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). She is also on the Advisory Committee of the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. She was the Chair of the Leadership Programme Committee of the 2010 International AIDS Conference, a twenty thousand plus member biannual scientific conference. Françoise Girard has donated several articles to peer-reviewed journals like Global Public Health, Science, and Health along with the Human Rights, Global Health Policy, International Family Planning outlooks and Reproductive Health Matters. Her other publications include Negotiating sexual as well as reproductive health and rights at the UN: a long and winding road in The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a

2. ferocious novel World, 2014; Global Implications of U.S. Domestic as well as International Policies on Sexuality, 2004; Negotiating Sexual Rights plus Sexual Orientation at the United Nations, in SexPolitics: account from the Front Lines, 2007; plus Advocacy for Sexuality and Women’s Rights: Continuities, Discontinuities and Strategies ever since ICPD in Reproductive Health as well as Human Rights: The Way Forward, 2009. She has been quoted by BBC Radio, NPR, Washington Post, The Guardian, Boston Globe, Associated Press, CBC/Radio-Canada, Philadelphia Inquirer plus The Nation, among others. On March 12, 2019, Françoise Girard, President of International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), conveyed expert testimony before the US House Appropriations Committee on the devastating impact of the Global Gag Rule on the subsists of women along with girls around the globe. Enacted by the Trump management, this policy denies women imperative health care, undermines the US’s global health investments, as well as forces providers to make heartbreaking preferences. https://www.womensmediacenter.com/shesource/expert/francoise-girard