September 28 Campaign

Cameroon

Neighbourhood7

Event: Actions for the minorities City: Yaounde Date: September 28, 2012 Venue: splanade du Stade ompnisport Description:  We intend to gather people that feel excluded in the society – people leaving with disabilities, people having special sexual orientations, women facing or who faced rape, violence in their homes, etc. Women seeking acceptance of their right [...]

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Cameroon Grasroots Global Network

Event: Women and young people asking for services, information, access to safe and affordable abortions. City: Bafoussam Date: 15th and 28th of September 2012. Type of the event: Local radio broadcast, awareness raising activity, cultural event, workshop/training. Description of the event: Stakeholders: Traditional doctors, medical doctors, women’s groups, youth groups, community, Parliamentarian of Ntare community [...]

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Kenya

Dandelion Kenya /WGNRR Alliance Kenya

Event: 28 September Global Day City: Nakuru Date: September 28, 2012 Venue: Nakuru CBD Description:  8.30 – 11.00 Public event in down town Nakuru.  The public event will include short speeches about the current Maternal Health situation in Kenya including abortions and in perspective of MDGs, Maternal Health. 11am – around 3 pm. A women’s forum – [...]

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Malawi

Centre for Girls and Interaction (CEGI)

Name of the event: Demanding Legal Reform – Safe Abortion for Women! City: Mzuzu Date: 28 September 2012 Type of the event:  awareness raising workshop Description of the event: The event will focus on two thing (1) we will talk about the current situation on the consequences of unsafe abortion in Malawi and how we need [...]

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Centre for Social Concern and Development [CESOCODE]

Name of the event: SAFE ABORTION FREE LIFE FOR ALL WOMEN City: Blantyre Date: 28 September 2012 Type of the event: Awareness raising activity: public forum and women meeting. Short description of the event: The meeting will target the women of reproductive age who are more vulnerable to unsafe abortion. The meeting is expected to be attended [...]

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Nigeria

National Coalition for Safe Abortion Advocacy

Event: Awareness Raising, Engaging the media Cities: Lagos /Owerri Dates: September 28th for Lagos/September 22nd for Owerri Type of the event: Forum for Owerri and Rally for Lagos Description of the event:  Advocates of Safe Abortion will gather wearing T-shirts and poster with various inscriptions on the 28th September.  The target audience is youths and women. About 30 attendees are [...]

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Rwanda

Rwandese Association For family Welfare (ARBEF)

Event: 60,000 induced abortions annually: A call to address the unmet need for contraception, improve post abortion care and most importantly broaden the access to legal and safe abortion!! City: Kigali Date: 28th September 2012 Type of the event: Distribution of factsheets and a presentation during a consultative meeting with African Parliaments on ICPD and [...]

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South Africa

WISH/WGNRR/HBS

The Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal abortion is an opportune moment to burgeon our cross-movement collaboration, building on the recent release of an opinion piece in the Mail and Guardian, in relation to the Marikana incident, signed by some of you, responding to Errol Naidoo from the Family Policy Institute. For details [...]

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Tanzania

Tanzania Safe Abortion Advocacy Network

Organisers: Women’s Promotion Centre + 7 members of Tanzania Safe  Abortion Advocacy Network Name of the event: Stop Unsafe abortion! It kills our Daughters City: Kigoma Date: 28 Sept 2012 Type of the event: Forum Description:   It will be a joint awareness raising activity aimed at highlighting the tall of unsafe abortion in Tanzania and its consequences [...]

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ACTIVISTS FOR ETHICS AND SOCIETAL RIGHTS IN TANZANIA (ACESOTA)

Event: Access to Safe and Legal Abortion City: MBEYA Date: September 28, 2012 Contact details: +255 7676887272 Description: The event will be on Mobilization for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion that will promote women’s reproductive freedoms and to mobilise for women’s right to access safe and legal abortion. The target audiences are women and men this is because [...]

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Network of Young People living with HIV/AIDS

Activity: Awareness raising forum on the importance of advocating for safe abortion City: Dar-Es-Salam Date: September 28, 2012 Description of the activity: The forum aims to bring together about one hundred people to talk about the importance of safe and legal abortion. It targets policy makers, human rights activists and religious leaders. The forum will [...]

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Uganda

Uganda Management Assistance Programme (UMAP)

For 28 September, we shall be handing in a petition  to our Parliament onabortion. We are also planning for an upcountry training workshop on safe abortion.The theme is: Safe abortion for women: a right or not? Several drama groups will also be performing on that day.  

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Kyetume CBHC

Event: Community matching and public rally on the Global day of action of 28th Sept 2012 Location: Katosi Trading center, Mukono District, Uganda Most abortion related complications are easily treated if care is received on time. However, evidence suggests that one in five women who require treatment for complications of unsafe abortions never receive such care.  Among those [...]

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Zimbabwe

Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS Zimbabwe ( GYCA Zimbabwe), ROOTS (Real Open Opportunities for Transformation Support)

Event: Gender Challenge Initiative Launch Date: September 27, 2012 City: Harare Description: A theatrical perfomance on the importance of access to safe and legal abortion will be staged at a Gender Challenge Initiative Launch. The event will gather about 120 civil society, community members, young people and policy makers. The perfomance will – evoke community dialogue [...]

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