The Society for International Development's women's network (SID-WID) has been exploring the reproductive rights agenda from a holistic development perspective since the 1980s. As an international network gathering together women and men from diverse positions-development professionals, policy-makers in agencies and governments, NGO activists, community health workers, researchers and gender experts, leaders and supporters of South, North and East women's movements - SID-WID offers a viewpoint that stretches across several strategic positions. © 1999 The Society for International Development.