September 28 campaign

Africa
- Tanzania
- Malawi
- Cameroon
- Nigeria
- Kenya
- Zimbabwe
- South Africa
- Rwanda
- Uganda
Asia Pacific
- Nepal
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Malaysia
- Australia
- Lebanon
- New Zealand
- Turkey
- Japan
Europe
- Poland
- United Kingdom
- Spain
- Ireland
- Macedonia
- Belgium
- Italy
- Russia
- Portugal
- Armenia
Latin America
- Colombia
- Nicaragua
- Brasil
- Ecuador
- Mexico
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Argentina
- Dominican Republic
- Peru
- Uruguay
- Puerto Rico
- Chile
- El Salvador
- Bolivia
North America
- USA
- Canada

Asia Pacific

Australia

Women’s Abortion Action Campaign (WAAC)

We have chosen that day to mark the 40th Anniversary of WAAC ‘s founding in 1972, and have organised an event in Sydney’s western suburbs to mark both occasions. We will have speakers focussing on abortion and reproductive rights issues, as well as a great chance for former and current WAAC supporters and activists to get [...]

Women’s Health Victoria

Women’s Health Victoria will distribute a media release on September 28 – The Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion and participate in the social media campaigns on Facebook and Twitter. The focus will be on the accessibility of abortion in Victoria and linkages with broader international issues. For more information, please [...]

Reproductive Choice Australia

Reproductive Choice Australia is throwing a Flashmob, and we want YOU to come.
Dance in Melbourne’s CBD in support of women and against abortion shame, silence and stigma!

Samsara

Event: The Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion Date: 1 – 30th of September 2012 City: Yogyakarta Type of event: Awareness raising activities Contact details: smdewi@samsara.or.id Short description: – Radio broadcast – 28th September in a local radio – Bomber – Samsara in collaboration with street artists community in Jogja will create mural [...]

PKBI DIY (Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta)

Event: “Protection for Women Facing Unwanted Pregnancies” City: Yogyakarta Type of the event: radio talk show, community meetings Dates: third and forth weeks of September Description of the event: We plan to make talk show in several radio in our city (Yogyakarta), campaign in our website and facebook accounts for counseling services and our other programs, [...]

Space Allies

In Japan, in this year, we, “Space Allies” are planning to have a meeting on WHO “Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems” , which we are translating into Japanese language and, in this month, are developing campaign decriminalization abortion for UN Universal Periodic Review procedure, in which review on Japan is held [...]

Nasawiya

Event: Position Paper on Abortion City: Beirut Nasawiya will be publishing a position paper on women’s right to safe and legal abortion in Lebanon. For more information of the organisation and its activities, please visit the Nasawiya website: http://www.nasawiya.org/web/

Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance of Malaysia (RRAAM)

Event: press-conference on the Global Day of Action City: Kuala-Lumpur Description: During the press conference a strong statement on the realities of abortion will be presented to the public and media. All supporting NGOs giving short statements on how the situation regarding access to abortion services affects their constituency (women and young people).

SRHR Coalition Nepal

Event: Safe Abortion Day Activities: Press conference at ‘Reporters’ Club’ Kathmandu; Policy Dialogye at Ministry of Health and Population, Kathmandu; Country fact sheet preparation and distribution; media campaign; District level events: Roundtable meetings with District Public Health Offices (DPHO) in Jhapa, Bara, Palpa, Dang and Kailali districts making a total of 5 such roundtables altogether. City: Kathmandu Dates: September [...]

ALRANZ, Women’s Health Centre and other pro-choice groups

Abortion still being in the NZ crimes act, like right now, in 2012. What does this mean? It means that while abortion is widely available in NZ, the majority of abortions are actually peformed through a legal loophole on the grounds of harm to the mental health of the pregnant person. The fact that it’s [...]

Shirkat Gah

Event: Networking With Outreach Organizations This September 28 Shirkat Gah with support from WGNRR and Ipas Pakistan is holding a networking meeting of the outreach organizations wishing to work on Safe Abortion with their urban counterparts in Karachi. This would facilitate sharing of experiences of how to tackle an issue considered taboo by many. This meeting would be an [...]

Peace Foundation

Event: Ethical and Societal rights of women and girls in Pakistan Date: September 28, 2012 Description: 1. Peace Foundation has developed 500 wall paper inviting readers to think favorabaly for reproductive rights of women. 2. 2500 stickers are printed with hot line number for safe medical abortion. 3. A gathering is planned to mark the day of 28th September involving youth [...]

Antalya Women’s Counseling Center and Solidarity Association

Event: Boat action for September 28 Date: September 29, 2012 Time: 15:30-17:30 Location: Yat Limanı/ Antalya (Marina/Antalya) Contact details: Te/Faks: 0 242.248 07 66, antalyakadinmerkezi@gmail.com Description: We are organizing an action in boat. Antalya is a sea-side city, so our boat travel through coastline with our big banner allowing to see those who are in coastline [...]

Mavi Kalem Association

Action in Turkey Fener-Balat region in Istanbul The abortion became legalised as a service of the government by 1983 Constitution of Turkey and it was significant gain for women. However the current power of Turkey wanted to restrict the right of abortion by new regulation in 2012. Afterwards women organizations became together in order to [...]