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September 28 Love Matters India: launch of India’s 1st Virtual Reality film on abortion #IAmNotAlone

To mark September 28th this year, Love Matters India is launching the campaign #IAmNotAlone – Kya doge mera saath?, geared towards calling on women and those in their lives – be it their partner, family, friends, colleagues, doctor — to step up and share their own experience of supporting women’s choice to have an abortion, […]

September 28 Online Video Release: “Cabide” a film by Emilie Beffara

The online release of the short film “Cabide” (Hanger) is happening this upcoming September 28! Using an ethnographic documentary style, and mingling with a poetic glance, this work proposes to understand the current narratives behind the questions around abortion and women’s position in today’s Brazilian society. This short film by Emilie Beffara, anthropologist, sociologist and journalist, […]

Campaign Materials

On this page you will find the materials that can be used for your mobilisation for September 28. WGNRR team has developed specially for this day of action banner posters and stickers with the slogan “Diverse Actions, Different Places, One Demand!” reflecting the massive mobilisation by activists around the globe for the right to access to safe and legal abortion as a human right.

CRR launches e-course on reproductive rights advocacy!

The Center for Reproductive Rights is launching a free e-learning course for advocates! Please see the information below and feel free to disseminate widely. The Center for Reproductive Rights is excited to announce the launch of an online course to support advocates in leveraging the human rights framework to advance reproductive rights at the national […]

Support the joint statement on abortion rights for the Human Rights Council

(Please find the content in Spanish, French and Russian below) In support of the September 28 “Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion” Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI), Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), Ipas, the Asia-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW), AWID, the Youth Coalition and the Swedish Association for Sexuality and […]

Campaign updates

September 28 Love Matters India: launch of India’s 1st Virtual Reality film on abortion #IAmNotAlone

How does abortion stigma work? The cycle of Stigma

Download and share this infographic which explains how abortion stigma works.

How to report on Abortion: A guide for journalists, editors and media outlets.

Are you a journalist? Editor? Media outlet? Or are you an activist looking for the best way to talk about abortion in your blogs and social media accounts? This great tool, produced by the International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation will be of great use […]

WGNRR & IPAS GLOBAL Launch “Resist & Persist: A Short Booklet on Global Abortion Advocacy Achievements”

WGNRR & IPAS GLOBAL worked with partners from the different regions and volunteer illustrators in the creation and design of comic strips that ultimately formed a Booklet. The goal of this project is to provide an accessible, user-friendly tool for individuals, activists and allies to: Learn about the diverse ways and strategies that groups, organizations […]

Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights launches 2017 International Safe Abortion Day Watchdog!

To mark September 28, the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights is proud to launch their 2017 International Safe Abortion Day Watchdog! This year, the YCSRR joins the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights’ Global Campaign, “Resist and Persist” because they believe that […]

Safe abortions for all women who need them – not just the rich, say UN experts

United Nations human rights experts has called on States across the world to repeal laws that criminalize and unduly restrict abortion and policies based on outdated stereotypes, to release all women in prison on abortion charges and to counter all stigma against abortion. The experts also called for 28 September to become an official UN […]

#IresistWePersist: Advocating and Reducing Stigma in restrictive settings; Philippines

Click on image to download and share via Social Media. Illustrations by: Valentino Roman Learn more about PINSAN here.

#IresistWePersist: Resisting and Persisting by setting up Funds for Abortion Access in Mexico

Click on image to download and share via Social Media. Illustrations by: Deanna Zandt Learn more about Fondo MARIA here.

Decriminalize and Allow Abortion in Certain Cases, Philippines Told by Advocates at the UN

(Geneva) – The Philippines should allow abortion in certain cases, said a spokesperson of the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (Pinsan) at the UN. Ana Maria “Princess” Nemenzo, who also spoke on behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), and PINSAN, and is currently the national coordinator of […]

#IresistWePersist She Decides: A Global Movement for Bodily Autonomy

Click on image to download and share via Social Media. Illustrations by: Amy Everson Learn more about She Decides here.

September 28 has been a regional campaign for the decriminalization of abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean for over twenty years before being taken on by SRHR activists all over the world in 2011.