Publications
The APPG on Global SRHR regularly produces study tour- and parliamentary hearings reports which are listed below.
Report from a cross-party study tour to Tanzania and Zanzibar (2024)
From 10-17 February 2024, the APPG organised a study tour to Tanzania and Zanzibar with a cross-party UK Parliamentary delegation including Baroness Fiona Hodgson, Baroness Anne Jenkin of Kennington, Apsana Begum MP, Kim Johnson MP and Tommy Sheppard MP.
The study tour was hosted by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Tanzania supported by MSI Reproductive Choices (MSI) and affiliate organisation MS Tanzania (MST), International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and member organisation Chama cha Uzazi na Malezi Bora Tanzania (UMATI) and EngenderHealth.
The aim of the study tour was to strengthen UK parliamentarians’ knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and International Development and to enhance the membership of the APPG.
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Report from EPF’s Study Tour to Tanzania
The European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) ran a study tour from 7-13 January 2023 for 11 European parliamentarians to Tanzania. The main aim of this study tour was to learn more about Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) as well as Family Planning (FP) and to discuss sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) related pertinent issues with their Tanzanian counterparts. Baroness Mobarik and Heather Wheeler MP attended on behalf of the APPG.
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Report from EPF’s Study Tour to El Salvador (2023)
The European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) ran a study tour from 19-22 September 2023 for 5 European parliamentarians to El Salvador. Rupa Huq MP joined the delegation of behalf of the APPG and reported back to the committee. The purpose of the study visit was to learn about the situation of sexual and reproductive rights of women, girls, and adolescents in El Salvador. To this end, the delegation held meetings with public officials, cooperation agencies, diplomatic corps, human rights organisations, and went on territorial visits.
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12 years of quality education: How investing in sexual and reproductive health and rights helps keep girls in school (2021)
The APPG hosted a series of parliamentary hearings on the connection between girls’ education and sexual and reproductive health and rights in the developing world. The hearings called for evidence from governmental and non-governmental organisations, institutions and individuals. This report and its recommendations are based on the evidence submitted to the hearings.
Click here for the full report.
Click here for the executive summary.
The written and oral evidence submitted by organisations and individuals are available here, along with a recording of the launch event on 10 June 2021.
Report from a cross-party study tour to Uganda (2022)
From 29 May to 1 June 2022, the APPG organised a study tour to Uganda with a cross-party UK Parliamentary delegation including Baroness Liz Sugg, Steve Brine MP, Alan Brown MP, Tommy Sheppard MP and Matthew Vickers MP.
The study tour was co-hosted by MSI Reproductive Choices (MSI) and their Ugandan affiliate organisation MS Uganda and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and its member organisation Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU).
The aim of the study tour was to strengthen UK parliamentarians’ knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and International Development and to enhance the membership of the APPG.
Click here for the report.
Report from a cross-party study tour to Bangladesh (2019)
From 12-20 September 2019, the APPG organised a study tour to Bangladesh with a cross-party UK Parliamentary delegation including Baroness Jenny Tonge, Baroness Jenkin, Baroness Blackstone, Baroness Uddin, Baroness Hodgson, Liz McInnes MP, John Mann MP, Steve McCabe MP, Nic Dakin MP and Tommy Sheppard MP. The study tour was co-hosted with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with the aim of strengthening UK parliamentarians’ knowledge about family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights and to enhance the membership of the APPG.
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Who Decides? We Trust Women: Abortion in the Developing World and the UK (2018)
The APPG hosted a series of parliamentary hearings on abortion in the developing world and the UK. The hearings called for evidence from governmental and non-governmental organisations, institutions and individuals. This report and its recommendations are based on the evidence submitted to the hearings.
Click here for the full report.
Click here for the executive summary.
The written and oral evidence submitted by organisations and individuals are available here.
Report from a cross-party study tour to Ethiopia (2017)
From 5-11 November 2017, the APPG organised a study tour to Ethiopia with a cross-party UK Parliamentary delegation including Baroness Jenny Tonge, Baroness Jenkin, Baroness Blackstone, Harriet Harman MP and Karen Buck MP. The study tour was co-hosted by Marie Stopes International (MSI) with the aim of strengthening UK Parliamentarians’ knowledge about family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights and to enhance the membership of the APPG.
Click here for the report.
Click here for Harriet Harman MP’s personal report on the trip.
Report from a cross-party study tour to Greece (2016)
From 3-4 December 2016, the APPG organised a study tour to Athens, Greece with a cross-party UK Parliamentary delegation including Baroness Jenny Tonge, Baroness Jenkin, Baroness Barker, Baroness Uddin, Baroness Northover, Baroness Hodgson and Lord Purvis. The study tour was co-hosted by UNFPA with support from Merck & Co (MSD) Greece. The aim of the study tour was to strengthen UK Parliamentarians’ knowledge of family planning, sexual and reproductive health and rights service provisions in refugee settings and enhance the membership of the APPG.
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Report from a cross-party study tour to Sri Lanka (2016)
From 11-17 November 2015, the APPG organised a study tour to Sri Lanka for a cross-party UK delegation including Baroness Jenny Tonge, Heather Wheeler MP, Baroness Jenkin, Holly Lynch MP, Virendra Sharma MP, Nigel Evans MP, Lord Steel and Karl Turner MP. The study tour was hosted by FPA Sri Lanka, the International Planned Parenthood Federation’s (IPPF) member association in Sri Lanka. The study tour aimed to introduce UK Parliamentarians to family planning, sexual and reproductive health and rights and international development in the context of a post-conflict state. The study tour was intended to deepen understanding of core issues, strengthening the Parliamentarians’ knowledge and enhancing the membership of the APPG.
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Report from a cross-party study tour to Sierra Leone (2015)
From 5-13 November 2015, the APPG organised a study tour to Sierra Leone with a cross-party UK Parliamentary delegation including Baroness Jenny Tonge, Liz McInnes MP, Baroness Sheehan and Lord Hussain. The study tour was hosted by UNFPA, Sierra Leone. The aim of the study tour was to introduce and strengthen UK Parliamentarians’ knowledge on core family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights issues and to enhance the membership of the APPG.
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Population Dynamics and the Sustainable Development Goals (2015)
The APPG hosted a series of parliamentary hearings to draw attention to the role of population dynamics in achieving sustainable development, and its interplay with climate change and with conflict. The Hearings called for evidence from governmental and non-governmental organisations, institutions and individuals. This report and its recommendations are based on the evidence submitted to the hearings.
Click here for the report.
Written evidence and transcripts from oral evidence sessions are available here.
Click here for a copy of Steering Committee Chairman Sir Richard Ottaway’s, former MP, 2011 personal report: Sex, Ideology, Religion: 10 Myths about World Population Growth.
Patient Empowerment: For Better Quality, More Sustainable Health Services Globally (2014)
The result of a partnership by six All-Party Parliamentary Groups, this report takes a global perspective on how to empower patients to play a more active role in their care. Drawing lessons from over 100 innovative case studies submitted to the review, it outlines how much the UK has to learn from high-, middle- and low-income countries – and how these lessons should be applied. At the same time, the report also highlights the UK’s strengths, its important role historically in supporting the global patient empowerment agenda, and how it can continue to play a leading role internationally.
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Report from a cross-party study tour to Myanmar (2013)
From 17-25 July 2013, the APPG organised a study tour to Myanmar for a cross-party UK delegation including Meg Munn MP, John Mann MP, Heather Wheeler MP, Craig Whittaker MP and Baroness Jenkin. The study tour was hosted by Marie Stopes International (MSI) with the aim of introducing UK Members of Parliament to sexual and reproductive health and rights, family planning and international development in the context of a fragile state. The study tour was intended to deepen understanding of core issues, strengthening the MPs’ knowledge and enhancing the membership of the APPG.
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A Childhood Lost: Report on Child Marriage in the UK and the Developing World (2012)
Child marriage, which is marriage that takes place before one or both of the spouses has reached adulthood, is a global phenomenon. This is despite the fact that it is illegal according to international – and, in most cases, national – laws. Although it is most prevalent in the developing world, there is increasing evidence of child marriage happening in the UK and other developed countries. Girls are tricked into being taken from this country by their families to marry men they have never seen. This report tells some of their stories. In other countries child and forced marriage is widespread and sometimes horrifying in its cruelty. Our report records the suffering of these girls and the expertise of many specialists in the field on the familial and societal causes of this practice.
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Report from a cross-party study tour to Nepal (2011)
The APPG, in collaboration with International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and Marie Stopes International (MSI) and their partners in Nepal, organised a study tour to Nepal, 19-26 February 2011. The study tour was funded by the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (EPF). The tour aimed to introduce new UK MPs to sexual and reproductive health and rights and international development, and to encourage them to become active members of the APPG. The delegation, led by Baroness Tonge, Chair of the APPG, consisted of two new Conservative MPs, Heather Wheeler MP and David Morris MP.
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Better Off Dead? A report on maternal morbidity (2009)
The APPG would like to introduce you to a little known, little researched, and little understood topic: maternal morbidity. The definition is disputed, but the term roughly means women’s illnesses and injuries related to pregnancy and childbirth. It leaves 10-20 million women and girls every year with long-term physical, psychological, social and economic problems. Many women are abandoned, ostracised and alone. The APPG held hearings into maternal morbidity on 8-9 December 2008, in response to members’ quest for information, on this often neglected subject.
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Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals - Report update summary (2009)
A report on the impact of global population growth on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) was published by the APPG in 2007 (see below). In 2009 the report was updated to reflect more recent estimates for global population growth and its impact.
Click here for the summary of the update report.
Click here for a list of the updated charts and figures.
Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals (2007)
In 2000 the United Nations set eight goals for global development, to be achieved by 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The MDGs made no reference to population growth and gave no recognition of its impact. The APPG initiated these parliamentary hearings because many of the countries with the greatest levels of poverty and greatest need to achieve the MDGs also have high birth rates and rapidly growing populations. The inquiry called for empirical evidence from professional, academic and institutional sources worldwide, asking whether growing populations were affecting achievement of the MDGs. This report and the conclusions and recommendations are based on the statistics and views presented during these hearings.
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Click here for a summary of the report.
The Missing Link! Parliamentary hearings linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS (2004)
Sexual and Reproductive ill health accounts for one-third of the global burden of disease amongst women of reproductive age and one-fifth of the burden of disease among the population overall. Regrettably, sexual and reproductive health specialists have not taken a leading role in the fight against HIV/AIDS and many donor countries have prioritised HIV/AIDS at the expense of sexual and reproductive health. The failure of both the sexual and reproductive health and donor communities to work together in the struggle to overcome HIV/AIDS is the reason for this report. Why did this happen? What can sexual and reproductive health bring to the fight against HIV/AIDS given that current international and national efforts have failed to prevent the epidemic? The APPG decided to investigate what happened to the link between sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS and what has been missed as a result.
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Report from a cross-party study tour to Malawi (2003)
From 10-19 May 2003, four Members of Parliament (Martin Jones MP, Jenny Tonge MP, Candy Atherton MP and Sandra Osborne MP) travelled to Malawi to examine the reproductive health service programmes provided by Marie Stopes International (MSI). The MPs visited Malawian ministries, plantation workers and medical facilities.
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Report from a cross-party study tour to China (2002)
During the UK International Development Bill debate, amendments were proposed that restricted the UK's assistance to the largest international organisations working in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, namely UNFPA and IPPF. Both organisations promote and ensure that individuals/couples have access to quality sexual and reproductive health care services worldwide. Amendments were proposed on the grounds that UK Government funding to UNFPA and IPPF perpetuate coercive population control practices such as forced abortion, forced sterilisation and infanticide in countries such as China. The study tour aimed for UK Members of Parliament to be informed of China's current population, reproductive health policies, programme work and UNFPA's work in China.
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Report on Parliamentary Hearings on Female Genital Mutilation (2000)
This report is based on the Parliamentary hearings on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) held by the APPG on PDRH. The hearings were held on 23 and 24 May 2000 in the Palace of Westminster. The first hearing was for witnesses from the UK and covered issues such as training, the effectiveness of the law against FGM, support services and care available, and work with community-based organisations. The second day of the hearings was for witnesses from Europe and beyond and covered activities in other EU countries with migrant populations who are likely to practice FGM. Evidence was also taken from the TOSTAN project in Senegal, RAINBO and the UNFPA.
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Click here for the survey results and analysis.
