We hope this open letter to the Human Rights and Social Affairs Commissions of the Brazilian Federal Senate may also inspire ...

In global health, numbers often reflect need. But sometimes, they reflect hope.

On 5 October 2025, the global maternal health community came together at the FIGO 2025 World Congress to launch and celebrate ...

FIGO highlights critical new guidance published in the International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics on preventing post-caesarean sepsis, a leading cause of maternal mortality. The comprehensive ...

Breen M. (2019). Manual of Obstetric Fistula Surgery. Carlisle: The Foundation for the Global Library of Women’s Medicine (free to access). Breen M. (2020). Manuel de Chirurgie de la Fistule ...

Drew LB, Ruder B, Schwartz DA. (2022). A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa - Public Health, Anthropological, and Medical Perspectives. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

This document complements FIGO’s Statement – Childbirth: A Bill of Rights – by providing an ethical framework for respectful maternity care during pregnancy and childbirth. Together with the bill of ...

In recognition of the need for a world federation to address the threat of toxic environmental chemicals to human reproductive and developmental health on the global stage, the International ...

FIGO and the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) have developed a groundbreaking classification system for chronic pelvic pain (CPP), aiming to transform diagnosis, management, education and ...

FIGO has long endorsed the right of every woman and man to establish a family, as affirmed in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We also recognise that couples and individuals ...

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a devastating but preventable condition that affects mothers and their children around the world. PPH occurs when a mother has serious bleeding after giving birth. When ...