AVAC: No stigma
AVAC: Safety
Restless Development: To be heard
AVAC: We want the freedom and autonomy to make political/health/economic decisions for ourselves!
Phyllis Emelda: Hands-on skills
Helena Nangombe, Young Women Empowerment Network: Love, respect, EMPOWERMENT, friendly services, and to be allowed to make choices about our health and lives. Women also want and NEED equality in financial and educational opportunities.
Haya Adil Sheikh, Pakistan: Respect, good education and better accessibility to products essential to basic health
Jacquelene Alesi, Uganda: Children by choice, not chance
Faith Aisha Adams, Malawi: Make sexual and reproductive health services and information accessible to adolescent girls and young women in rural areas... they count too!
AVAC: Our voices and choices to be listened to
Amany Abuawad: Equality and no more gender stereotypes
AVAC: To make all decisions about our bodies, our health and actions. We'll ask you if we want your input
Sofia Forum, UK: Meaningfully involve women living with HIV, we have skills, expertise and lived experience
International Women's Health Coalition: Sexual and reproductive health and rights
YP Foundation, India: Safe, accessible, non-judgemental services for my sexual health
Natalie: I want girls like me to have an education
L'Orangelis Thomas Negron, Puerto Rico: Love
To be at the table every time we are discussed. We are NOT targets.
Sophia: Unrestricted access to sexual and reproductive health and rights
Comprehensive sexuality education for youth
Sanchi, India: Universal access to sanitary napkins and no menstruation taboo.
![Xiana: Reproductive Rights [Xiana is an author for the Young Feminist Blog series, and as her own blog at http://www.imaginamas.org/inicio/mujer-vih/]](https://format.creatorcdn.com/3e0677db-c31b-4cbc-be78-a7ba4b012fe0/0/0/0/0,0,1280,1135,700,1135/0-0-0/4a90d8ce-45bc-4f1e-8ed1-a42a3a87bcdc/1/1/IMG_6355.png?fjkss=exp=1976209806~hmac=71250488a209bdeac3ce02fcdbb862a1ac9332f6dc52069822aea78086c29b33)
Xiana, Italy: Reproductive Rights
[Xiana is an author for the Young Feminist Blog Series, and also writes for Imagina Mas
UNFPA Algeria: Family planning services should be available to young men and women, so they can make their own decisions about their bodies
Maldrine Asiimwe, Uganda: Prioritize the needs of adolescent girls and young women in the HIV response.
Akina Mama wa Afrika, Uganda: Respect for young women's reproductive choices.
We asked young women around the world what their priorities are, and this is what they said.
Gender equality globally
To be treated with respect, always!
Life without judgement
A good and honest man
Economic empowerment, access for treatment, funding and property rights!
Dazon: To live their whole sexual lives on their own terms, and to be FREE!
YP Foundation, India : Safety & Freedom
YP Foundation, India : Neither mine nor my family's honor lies in my vagina
Dignity & Autonomy
Prudence Nobantu Mabele: Dignity
Pushpa, India: Safety
Janet, Puerto Rico: Eliminate stigma for all people
Saroja, India: Happiness
Thandiwe, Zimbabwe: A working justice system that protects adolescent girls and young women
Michel Sidibe: To be free
Saradha, India: Respect, though I am a widow
Meena, India: Respect
Put trans* women on the agenda for HIV funding
Kanagavalli, India : Independence
Maha, India: The freedom to remain single
Full decriminalization of sex work, our work places, and our clients for our health, safety and rights
Catherine, Kenya: Funding to influence global policy and political space to organize
Sexual pleasure discourse in comprehensive sexuality education
Young women need tools and information to protect ourselves and to share with other young women.
Fund communities
Resty: We need to be mentored so that we lead and mentor others
Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights
Daniela: Gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights for all women, in all of our diversity
Education and financial empowerment
Ensure that young women and girls are represented
Respect and power
Adolescent girls voices at the decision making table
Annah: Equality and equity
We want women to be confidently autonomous, and to have full access to sexual and reproductive health and rights everywhere
Brenda: Equal consideration and involvement in policy making
Meenakshi: Equal pay
Greg: Young women's leadership
To separate sex from sin, and to have access to services for ALL women: trans*, lesbian, young, injecting drug users, women living with HIV
Economic empowerment for youth
Income equality
Comprehensive sex education and youth-friendly services
Healthy relationships
A women-led research agenda
Equal consideration and involvement in policy making
Stop criminalizing women
Young women's leadership
Saraswati: Rest
Young Women's Leadership
EQUALITY
Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
Kanthimathi: Respect
Sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
To influence policy, and to have money for programs
Invest in women-led civil society
End gender-based violence
Diana: To be involved in decision-making right away, from the family setting to the global level
Allen: Total inclusiveness in all areas of life
Melissa: Autonomy and power over our own bodies
Lotte: Full realization of our human rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights!
Lucia: Sexual and reproductive justice NOW
Cierra: To be included at the table in the HIV response, and gender equality
Young women's leadership
To be asked, invited, included, and taken seriously when deciding on policy and actions
Saroja: Cleanliness
Comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly services
Gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights for all!
To feel safe when I walk at night
Jacquelyne: Young women's leadership
Women being in control of their own bodies
Comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly services
I want every woman to know how truly beautiful she is
I want the UN and the African Union to ensure that no woman is being left behind
Isabella: To be bold, strong, secure, educated, emancipated, and empowered
Political and economic POWER
Female condoms and PrEP, safer sex, pleasurable sex, and for our voices to be heard
Khadijah: I want the UN to UNify against AIDS
The recognition and inclusion of women, young women and girls in all of our diversity
Unhindered opportunities
Our voices should be included in all decision making entities at all levels.
Selvi and Kala: Safety
Young women need clear mechanisms in order to participate in the decision making spaces of our communities
An equal seat at the table
Education in the field of protection of our rights, it's part of the foundation of gender equality
Hendrica: Comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly services
Gender equality and inclusion of groups with priority attention in agendas of international cooperation
Our governments and the Global Fund should make sure that there is accessibility and availability of HIV commodities in our rural communities
Vanessa: Ensure that young women and girls are represented
Invest in women-led civil society
Meaningful and sustainable funding for women-led organizations
Teresia: Human rights, and to end discrimination of women living with HIV
Freedom of expression and safer sex
Gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health and rights for all
Resty: Clean and proper equipment in labor wards
Rachel: To be represented by those who have our best interest at heart
Meaningful and sustained investment in women-led organizations
Aishu: Education for all
Lazaros: For me to stop perpetuating structures of patriarchy
Education, power, respect, and to be free of stigma
A non-violent relationship
The freedom to choose
To separate sex from sin, and to have access to services for ALL women: trans*, lesbian, young, injecting drug users, women living with HIV
Access to health and social services for every woman