SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS UNDER
PRESSURE
NORDIC STOCKTAKING ON THE RISING GENDER OPPOSITION IN EUROPE
23-24 February 2023
Copenhagen
Day 1: Thursday, 23 February 2023
13:00
–
13:30
Official opening: Sexual and reproductive Health and Rights as a
Nordic core value
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Opening remarks
by Karen Ellemann, Director, Nordic Council of Ministers
Opening remarks,
Danish cross-party Parliamentarian Network for SRHR
13:30-14:15
Setting the scene: what is the anti-gender movement?
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Neil Datta,
Executive Director, European Parliamentary Forum
Catarina Sofia Carvalho,
IPPF’s UN Representative in New York
and
Geneva
Ulrika Westerlund,
MP, Green Party, Sweden
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BREAK
14:30-15:15
Experiences from the field: Working to push back the push back.
- Karen Melchior,
Member of European Parliament (Renew)
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Member of Finnish Parliament (TBC)
15:15-16:00
Countermeasures and strategies
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Working with religious actors in the global South, Ib Petersen,
Assistant
Secretary-General, UNFPA
Maren Grøthe, MP Norwegian Parliament (TBC)
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BREAK
16:15-16:55
Way Forward, Next Steps
- Open discussion, facilitated by Majbrit Berlau,
General Secretary, Danish
Family Planning Association and
Karen Ellemann,
Director, Nordic Council
of Ministers
16:55-17:00
Closing Remarks by Marie Bjerre,
Danish Minister for Equality (TBC)
19:00
Reception and social event