Our Vision and Mission
The primary obstacle for gender equality is the persistent lack of bodily autonomy and integrity for girls and women.
Led by and representing feminist movements and youth advocates in the majority of the world, Women Deliver plays a pivotal role in global collective action for gender equality. Our mission is to protect and promote the bodily autonomy of girls, women, and gender-diverse people, focusing specifically on their control over their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We believe that gender equality cannot be achieved unless girls, women, and gender-diverse people have the freedom to make fundamental choices about their own bodies, sexuality, and health.
Our Principles
- Bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom are rights, not privileges.
- Bodily autonomy and reproductive rights are the foundation for gender equality.
- A girl or woman is anyone who has lived experience as a girl or woman, or identifies as a girl or woman. This unquestionably includes trans women, nonbinary people, and other gender-diverse individuals.
- Girls and women are experts in their own lives.
- Advocacy for girls and women must be guided by and representative of their diverse lived experiences. This requires applying an intersectional lens, recognizing how race, class, age, gender, and other factors overlap to shape inequities.
- Securing bodily autonomy requires dismantling systems of oppression, including patriarchy, colonialism, racism, fascism, capitalism, and Global Minority power.
Commitment to Anti-Racism and Anti-Colonialism
Women Deliver acknowledges that our sector and work are deeply embedded in colonial and racist power structures, ideals, and practices and we, ourselves, have benefitted from and perpetuated these practices. As a key part of our goal to become an international non-government organization (iNGO) of the 21st century, we are committed to shaping a future where our practices not only reflect our feminist and anti-racist values but also actively contribute to dismantling the systems that oppress girls and women.
The Women Deliver 2026 Conference (WD2026) is more than an event — it is a bold act of collective resistance. At a time when gender equality is under attack, WD2026 is where global feminist movements come together to strategize, resist, and push back. Taking place in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia, and hosted by the Oceanic Pacific region, it centers the leadership, knowledge, and lived realities of feminists and First Nations leaders at the forefront of climate justice, gender equality, and decolonization.
See and sign the Melbourne Declaration for Gender Equality 2026