News & Announcements

February 2020 | Statement

A human rights and reproductive justice approach to research and partnerships

In a just world, we would all have the resources we need—including information, services, supportive policies, and power—to make the best choices for ourselves, our families, and our communities, to choose whether and when to have children, and to raise those children with dignity. Yet...
November 2019 | Statement

Our commitment to helping create a more just and equitable world

At Ibis, justice and equity are core values that guide our research and partnerships and shape our vision for sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices, and health worldwide. In 2016, we launched work to ensure that Ibis’s work and approach are situated within a larger framework of racial...
June 2019 | Statement

Thoai Ngo selected as Ibis’s new Board Chair

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Thoai Ngo as chair of Ibis’s Board of Directors. As director of the Population Council’s Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program, Thoai oversees efforts to develop and test innovative solutions and scale up successful strategies to improve the...
June 2019 | Statement

Brigitte Amiri joins Ibis Board of Directors

We are delighted to announce that Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, has joined Ibis’s Board of Directors as a member at large. Brigitte is currently leading critical litigation on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice, including the Jane...
May 2019 | Statement

Celebrating the first-ever Free the Pill Day

On May 9, 1960, the US Food and Drug Administration first approved the birth control pill, which helped give people the freedom to determine their own life path. Nearly 60 years later, it’s past time to make the pill truly accessible. The pill is safe and effective, but one in three women who...
April 2019 | Statement

Celebrating International Day for Maternal Health and Rights

Ibis stands with our partners around the world in recognition of International Day for Maternal Health and Rights. We remain steadfast in our commitment to advance sexual and reproductive autonomy, choices, and health through bold, rigorous research and principled partnerships with advocates,...
February 2019 | Statement

Ibis responds to administration's sweeping changes to Title X

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Today, Kelly Blanchard, President of Ibis Reproductive Health, released the statement below about the current administration’s sweeping changes to Title X. “On Friday, the Trump administration continued its attacks on people’s—and especially women...
January 2019 | Statement

Ibis recognizes the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Today, Kelly Blanchard, President of Ibis Reproductive Health, released the statement below about the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. “Forty-six years after the Supreme Court recognized that laws prohibiting abortion violated a woman’s constitutional...

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