For over 60 years, FIGO has collaborated with the world's top health bodies to work towards the improvement of women's health globally.

FIGO is in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO), and attending the 146th WHO Executive Board Meeting in Geneva.

Health is a human right, and all women and children deserve access to the highest possible standards of physical, mental, preventive, reproductive and sexual health care.

This right must hold true wherever women and children live, regardless of their legal status; it cannot be sacrificed or compromised even when political turmoil places them at such risk.

FIGO welcomes the Nairobi Statement on ICPD25: Accelerating the Promise, and looks forward to working with partners and fellow women’s health champions to turn these commitments into concrete progress and ensure rights and choices for all.

For 65 years, FIGO has collaborated with the world's top health bodies to work towards the improvement of women's health and rights globally.

At the Nairobi Summit, we share our commitment to intensifying efforts for the full, effective and accelerated implementation and funding of the ICPD Programme of Action, Key Actions for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. 

FIGO will support achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC) by striving for: 

FIGO supports International Day of the Midwife 2016 (5 May 2016) 

Statement from the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) on the International Day of the Midwife 2016.

FIGO is the only organisation that brings together professional societies of obstetricians and gynecologists on a global basis, with Member Societies in 130 countries/territories.

International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics delivering innovative projects to save women’s lives around the world

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International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) and global partners launch key actions to hel

They were speaking on 9 October at the XIX International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Congress held at the Cape Town International Conference Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, from 4 to 9 October.

More than 200 NGOs attend preparation summit in Rome

GYNAECOLOGISTS DEMAND THAT G8 DEDICATE MORE RESOURCES TO MATERNAL INFANT NURSING CARE

SIGO president and FIGO delegate, Giorgio Vittori declares “Our objective is to save millions of lives: every 8 minutes a woman dies due to unsafe abortion methods, and one out of every 40 is killed by her partner”