International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)

In the early 1950s, a group of women and men started to campaign vociferously and visibly for women’s rights to control their own fertility. Contraception is a human right that challenged many social conventions. Campaigners faced great hostility to gain acceptance for things that we take for granted today. Some were imprisoned. But they emerged determined to work with different cultures, traditions, laws, and religious attitudes to improve the lives of women around the world. And so, at the 3rd International Conference on Planned Parenthood in 1952, eight national family planning associations founded the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

69 years later, the charity is a Federation of 118 Member Associations working in 129 countries, with an active presence in a further 13 countries, totaling 142 countries in which IPPF works. In 2020, we delivered 218.5 million sexual and reproductive health services.