NEWS

We Put Midwives on the ICFP2025 Agenda

The PUSH Campaign joined the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Bogotá, to make one thing clear: midwives are essential to achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Through a week of high-impact events, speaking engagements, art installations, and advocacy actions, midwives were made visible as vital partners in advancing the family planning agenda—beyond their traditional portrayal as “baby catchers”.

We Put Midwives on the ICFP2025 Agenda

November 13, 2025

The PUSH Campaign joined the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Bogotá, to make one thing clear: midwives are essential to achieving universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Through a week of high-impact events, speaking engagements, art installations, and advocacy actions, midwives were made visible as vital partners in advancing the family planning agenda—beyond their traditional portrayal as “baby catchers”.

The first regional PUSH campaign

October 16, 2025

Across the Arab States, too many women still struggle to access care that truly centers on their needs, choices, and dignity. Raising awareness and demand for women-centered care—care that listens, respects, and responds to each woman—is essential to building healthier, more empowered communities.

What a Midwife Can Do For You

September 26, 2025

When most people think of midwives, they think about birth and babies, and while that’s true, midwives do so much more. From your first period to your last, from contraception to parenting—midwives are there for your health, your rights, and your choices.

Midwife Magic

September 19, 2025

Daniela felt Midwife Magic when she felt truly seen, heard, and supported in her choices. She found that in her midwife, who listened, encouraged, and trusted her while giving her the information she needed to make decisions about her own body.

Made Possible by Midwives

September 16, 2025

Safety begins well before birth. With sexual education and family planning, midwives help girls avoid early pregnancies and support women to plan and space their children. This gives mothers the chance to prepare, and babies the chance to arrive healthy and strong.

Midwives in a Changing Climate

September 11, 2025

Rising climate-related disasters disproportionately harm women and girls—disrupting access to SRHR, increasing risks of pre-term births, maternal and newborn deaths, malnutrition, infections, and gender-based violence. Within this context, midwives are critical to providing dignifying, woman-centered care in these crises.

Show us the money!

This International Youth Day, we sat with Dina Chaerani, an influential feminist youth leader in SRHR advocacy from YIELD Hub, to hear from her insights and advocacy at the Seville Financing for Development Conference.

When the data tells the story…

Without data, the needs of women, particularly those from marginalized communities, remain invisible. With the right data and advocacy, we can push for systemic changes that ensure every woman, everywhere, has access to high quality, respectful, woman-centred care.

No SDGs without midwives

We joined the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), with one simple message: we cannot achieve the Sustainable Development Goals without investing in midwives!

My Voice, My Choice

We are featuring My Voice, My Choice, a successful campaign from Europe that built a movement for reproductive health and rights, advocating for accessible, equitable abortion care across Europe.

Doulas4Midwives

The PUSH Campaign joined forces with the European Doula Network (EDN) for a global webinar aimed at engaging doulas from around the world in a shared vision: transforming health systems through woman-centred care and midwifery advocacy. The doula network just launched a manifesto to PUSH for midwives.

PUSH for Women's Health

On May 28, 2025 — the International Day of Action for Women’s Health — the PUSH Campaign brought together global changemakers for a powerful virtual event that placed midwives at the heart of the conversation on women’s health.

PUSHing from the Grassroots Up

PUSH moderates the first panel of civil society advocates at the Human Reproduction Program’s Policy and Coordination Committee bringing together together a diverse range of grassroots leaders and advocates to underscore a message that cannot be ignored: Civil society is a lifeline to delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The Midwifery Accelerator: PUSH @ CPD & WHA

This spring ICM and partners launched the Midwifery Accelerator. We have been busy advocating for midwives and midwifery models of care alongside our partners and fellow woman-centred care champions from #CPD58 in New York to #WHA78 in Geneva!

PUSH Relaunches with New Colours

PUSH remains bold, unapologetic, and driven by purpose—but it now carries a deeper visual identity. While the design style remains recognisably PUSH, the campaign’s colours have been refreshed to better reflect the values of feminism that sit at the heart of the movement.

PUSH@CSW

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the world’s largest gathering dedicated to advancing gender equality and women's rights. This year’s session, CSW69, broke records with an unprecedented number of attendees and events. One of those events was the kickoff of the second phase of the PUSH Campaign, which featured the powerful statement that midwives are essential to achieving gender equality.

Kickoff of the Next Phase of the PUSH Campaign

PUSH is kicking off its next phase at the 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) in New York, the world’s largest gathering of gender equality advocates.

Climate Change and Sexual Health

November 22, 2023

We connected with Arpan Patel from New York Cares, to discuss the intricate connection between climate events and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

The case for training midwives to provide abortions

September 21, 2023

Nepalese midwife providing 15+ medical abortions each month exemplifies investment case for midwives as essential in advancing gender equality.

If you care about advancing reproductive health and rights, educate yourself on the potential impact of Birth Centres.

August 31, 2023

Birthing While Black - Iya Mystique Hargrove aka The Black Birth Healer

An Interview with PUSH Campaign Graphic Designer Ky Walker for Pride

This Pride Month, we speak to PUSH Graphic Designer Ky Walker about what Pride means to them and how the reproductive healthcare space can better support LGBTQIA+ individuals and families.

7 Experts on Maternal Health You Should be Following

In our latest blog post, we highlight 7 experts you should follow to stay up to date on maternal health. Their expertise spans various aspects of maternal health, including the benefits of the midwife-led model of care, trans and non-binary inclusion in fertility and pregnancy care and sexual and reproductive health policy.

Ensuring Greater Inclusivity and Representation at PUSH

Notes on our new Governance Structure from ICM Chief Executive, Dr. Sally Pairman

Birthing While Black - Dr. Nikia Grayson

5 definitions in the maternal health space you need to know!

Have you heard of the term doula before, but are unsure of what it means? Do you know the difference between obstetrics and gynaecology? Are you interested in receiving care from a midwife but are unsure of what this care would look like?

Birthing While Black - Thamarah Crevecoeur

Birthing While Black - Chanel Caraway

February 1, 2023

Share the PUSH holiday card!

December 13, 2022

U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit

December 12, 2022

Midwives are Key to Enabling Self-care and Achieving Health for All

December 12, 2022

7 journalists and blogs you should know

November 15, 2022

We’re amplifying seven journalists and publications covering maternal health and gender equality.

Life as a midwife during Pakistan's floods

October 4, 2022

The role of midwives in breastfeeding

August 25, 2022

In recognition of World Breastfeeding Week and our campaign efforts to underscore the full spectrum of sexual and reproductive care midwives provide, we spoke with Marley Hall – a UK-based midwife and the author of Midwife Marley's Guide For Everyone: Pregnancy, Birth and the 4th Trimester.

Communal Ownership of Women's Bodies

Neha Mankani investigates communal ownership of women's bodies in the wake of Roe v. Wade.

Midwives and Abortion Services

So, where do we go from here? And what is the role of a midwife in upholding and providing safe abortion care?

Team News

We’re excited today to be introducing our two new amazing regional advocacy and community support coordinators and we’re delighted to introduce them to you today and tell you a little bit about their role in the PUSH campaign.