Category: Media

The Party of European Socialists make a statement in support of 28th of September Global Day of Action

Gender equality is one of the core principles of our political family, as recalled in the Declaration of Principles adopted at PES Council in November 2011; “building on the achievements of the feminist

movement, we continue to fight for gender equality. This means that women and men equally share work, share power, share time and share roles, both in the public and in the private realms.” Our political family has always been the frontrunner of women’s rights and of the feminist movement establishing International Women’s Day, fighting for equal civil, labour and social rights, including the achievement of sexual and reproductive rights.

Pro-choice activists target Jeremy Hunt over voting record on abortion rights

By Zoe Holman, The Guardian, Friday 28 September 2012 20.07 BST Women’s group deliver coat-hangers to health secretary to highlight Hunt’s vote to halve abortion time limit to 12 weeks. Six hundred coat-hangers were delivered to the Department of Health on Friday by pro-choice activists anxious about possible attacks on abortionrights under the new health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. The “present” […]

El día después

Blog: Papá, ¿qué es el aborto? Ayer, 28 de septiembre, se celebró en todo el mundo el Día de Acción Global por el Aborto Seguro y Legal. Un día histórico que estará ya para siempre en el calendario internacional gracias a las organizaciones feministas latinoamericanas, que impulsaron esta iniciativa al iniciarse los años 90 y que, […]

Global Campaign for the Decriminalization of Abortion couldn’t come at better time.

BY JILL CAMBRIDGE Today, September 28, marks the International Day of Action for the Global Campaign for the Decriminalization of Abortion, an effort for organizations to campaign for women’s reproductive rights worldwide. The movement began with the struggle to address the public health crisis of unsafe abortions in Latin America before spreading to include countries and organizations across the globe. […]

September 28 Global Day of Action

(ARLANZ blog) Today is the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion. This has also been referred to as the International Day of Action for the Decriminalisation of Abortion, which as I gather is what it was called last year, the first year of the global campaign, started by Women’s Global Network for Reproductive […]

A Global Day for Safer Abortion Access

September 28, 2012 by Anita Little Each year, 67,000 women die throughout the world due to complications from botched abortions. This number makes up a damning 13 percent of maternal deaths–deaths that could have been easily prevented if these women had access to safe abortions. Instead, these women were cornered into more desperate methods, with the tragic end result of […]