In this episode, Laura Ferguson is joined by Angela Baschieri and Martina Yopo Diaz to discuss the critical links between climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

From disrupted reproductive healthcare and climate-related displacement to eco-anxiety and changing fertility decisions, the conversation highlights how the climate crisis is deeply affecting reproductive lives worldwide.

The episode also explores gaps in global policy frameworks, the unfinished agenda of the ICPD Programme of Action, and why equity, human rights, and meaningful participation must remain at the centre of climate action.

A thoughtful discussion on justice, sustainability, and the future of reproductive rights in a changing world.

• Read From conception to care: a systematic review of the impact of the climate crisis on reproductive justiceby Martina Yopo Díaz, Valentina Gómez Aguirre and Loreto Watkins, published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

• Read International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action and climate action: an intersecting agenda by Angela Baschieri and Chiagozie Udeh, published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

In this SRHM podcast episode, Eszter Kismődi speaks with three outstanding leaders and experts working at the intersection of digital rights and sexual and reproductive justice.

We were honoured to have Dr. Zahra Stardust, researcher at Queensland University of Technology’s Digital Media Research Centre; Martha Dimitratou, founder and Executive Director of Repro Uncensored; and Kali Sudhra, Executive Director of ESWA, European Sex Workers’ Rights Alliance, on the podcast to reflect on what happened behind the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 and why this matters profoundly for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), digital justice, and democratic participation globally.Read the blog by Dr. Zahra Stardust 'Defending Sexual and Reproductive Rights in the Aftermath of the RightsCon Cancellation' at srhm.org.

What does justice look like beyond policing, prosecution, and prisons?

In the latest SRHM Podcast, Eszter Kismődi speaks with Subha Wijesiriwardena and Susana T. Fried of Just Futures Collaborative about their new global campaign, Justice beyond Jails — an initiative rethinking responses to gender-based violence through rights-based, community-grounded approaches to safety and accountability.

The episode explores the campaign’s innovative interactive storytelling tool, cross-movement collaborations, and why feminist and human rights movements are increasingly questioning criminalisation as the default response to violence.

See the campaign at www.justfuturescollaborative.com/justice-beyond-jails

In this episode, we hear personal and professional reflections from Eszter Kismődi, Hungarian Citizen, International Human Rights Lawyer and Chief Executive of SRHM.

Just hours after the elections results were announced, Eszter hosts a series of conversations bringing together legal, generational, and civic perspectives on this political moment and its implications for democracy, human rights, and public institutions.

In this episode of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) Podcast, Eszter Kismődi speaks with Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, Professor of Public Law at Université Paris Nanterre and Senior Member of the Institut universitaire de France, about France’s landmark 2024 constitutional reform recognising abortion as a “guaranteed freedom,” as well as the subsequent December 2025 law acknowledging the harms caused by the criminalisation of abortion prior to 1975.

In this episode of the SRHM podcast, Eszter Kismődi, Chief Executive of SRHM, speaks with Professor Gita Sen, a globally recognised feminist economist from India whose work has been instrumental in shaping global debates linking gender equality, development justice, and SRHR.

The conversation highlights both why it is timely and necessary to reconnect SRHR with development justice in the current global political moment, and the launch of the Global South Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Development Justice.

Find out more about the Global South Coalition and the launch event on 31 March 2026 at srhrdevelopmentjustice.org

This episode of the SRHM Podcast brings together leading experts to explore the intersections between environmental justice and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), in the context of the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Opening and closing remarks are delivered by Thoại D. Ngô, Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and Chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The discussion is moderated by Eszter Kismődi, Chief Executive of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters.

Speakers include Aleya Khalifa (Columbia University), Allan Achesa Maleche (Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS), Neha Mankani (International Confederation of Midwives), Sai Jyothirmai Racherla (Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women), and Marta Schaaf (Amnesty International).

The episode examines how climate change, extractivism, land dispossession, and unequal resource governance intersect with economic inequality to shape SRHR outcomes, particularly for women and girls. It highlights accountability gaps and structural barriers to justice, while pointing to evidence-based, rights-driven pathways that advance equality, sustainability, and community wellbeing.

Who produces knowledge on gender and sexual and reproductive health in Africa, and whose voices shape the evidence that informs policy and practice?

In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, Sapna Desai, Editor-in-Chief of the SRHM Journal, speaks with researchers Woldekidan Amde and Kéfilath Bello about their recent scoping review examining authorship, geography, and funding in research on gender approaches to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) across Africa.

Analysing 45 publications from 2012 to 2022, the study reveals striking imbalances. Most first and senior authors were based outside Africa, funding overwhelmingly came from high income countries, and over one fifth of papers had no local authors at all. These patterns raise critical questions about power in knowledge production, the credibility and relevance of research, and the ability of evidence to influence policy and practice locally.

The conversation explores why these inequities persist despite growing calls to decolonise global health. It also looks at what must change: strengthening local research ecosystems, expanding mentoring for early career researchers, supporting south–south collaboration, and ensuring equitable funding and authorship practices.

Together, the speakers reflect on how more locally led, contextually grounded research is essential not only for equity, but for better quality knowledge and meaningful change in sexual and reproductive health.

Read the full paper, 'Imbalances in authorship, geographic and institutional contexts, and funding sources in research on gender approaches to sexual and reproductive health in Africa: a scoping review' by Woldekidan Amde, Kéfilath Bello, Tanya Jacobs, TK Sundari Ravindran & Asha S. George at srhmjournal.org.