The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated differential access to safe and legal abortion around the world, both between and within countries during 2020. Many borders have been closed and lockdowns have confined women to their homes, making it difficult to access safe, legal abortions. Even where abortion is accessible, in-person and especially hospital-based abortion […]
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The Safe Abortion Advocacy Initiative – A Global South Engagement (SAIGE) and Young Activist Network for Abortion Advocacy has collected stories from various partner organizations on young people and their experience of abortion and featured these in a series of postcards for sharing this September 28, International Safe Abortion Day.
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This September 28, SAIGE and its partners support the International Safe Abortion Day with the theme: Self-managed Abortion by focusing our demands around access to medical abortion as an important method for women seeking to end pregnancies. We come from an understanding that the lived realities of the global south are unique and our lived […]
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In support of the upcoming International Safe Abortion Day on 28 September, the Sexual Rights Initiative, the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality, the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Ipas, the International […]
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illustrations by Maanya Dhar The current global crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic directly impacts women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health services including safe abortion services and information. COVID-19 response mechanisms continue to shrink access to reproductive services that have always been very elusive and challenging to girls, women and marginalized communities. […]
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Join CREA, WGNRR Africa and Women Spaces Africa this September 23, 3PM EAT onwards! Register in advance for this webinar:https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k2_LAS_NRay4-wl8gXqoVg
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