Prior to 2002, abortion was illegal in Nepal, but today women and girls have the right to safe, legal abortion free of charge at public health facilities. In this Q & A, Radhika Nayaju, a district coordinator for Ipas Nepal, talks about the challenges of making access to abortion services a reality for women in […]
Moraa Beryl, 23, lives in Kisumu, Kenya, and is the leader and founder of She Deserves to Soar. She spends her days traveling across Kenya, speaking with and mentoring adolescent girls and young women. She is a 2019 Zuri Award honoree. The awards recognize Kenyan women dedicated to creating positive change in their communities. What […]
In 2017, Ipas commissioned photographer Farzana Hossen to document the experiences of women seeking reproductive health care services in Rohingya refugee camps, where Ipas Bangladesh has been working with partners to improve access to reproductive health services. She found that many women and girls in these camps had experienced unimaginable violence, like Noor, who was […]
Hesperian Health Guides’ website covers a wide range of topics, but the most popular is safe abortion and family planning. “We get six million users a year, and 1.2 million of those go to safe abortion and family planning information,” said Sarah Shannon, Executive Director at Hesperian. “It’s just a few pages on the site, […]
In a letter sent to the U.S. State Department, Ipas warns that the Global Gag Rule is widely misunderstood and misinterpreted, making access to safe abortion and contraceptive services even more difficult for women and girls in the global south. The gag rule is a U.S. policy restricting foreign nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. global […]
The project began with an innovative idea: an app providing community health workers (CHWs) and women in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh with information about menstrual regulation (MR, as abortion is known in Bangladesh). In spring 2018, Ipas partnered with IDEO.org, an organization that uses human-centered design to develop solutions to complex social challenges around […]
The Benin Government has taken a major step towards advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls. On January 31, the Ministry of Health hosted a national dissemination workshop on the results from the “Strategic Evaluation on unwanted pregnancy, Abortion & Contraception in Benin.” The evaluation was conducted under the leadership […]
By Laura Andrade A new app released last week by Ipas Mexico will make it easier for health-care providers and abortion service providers to access information about safe abortion. “Ipas App Mx” offers user-friendly, visually engaging digital tools designed to educate providers and decrease women’s barriers to accessing safe abortion. The free app, which is in Spanish and only available in Mexico, can be found on the online stores for Android and iOS. The app contains four informational and interactive modules: The regulatory framework for legal abortion in Mexico; Technologies recommended to perform safe […]
Roe and the Global Gag Rule Forty-six years ago, the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade gave women in the U.S. the legal right to safe abortion—a landmark ruling now in danger of being overturned or severely weakened. This year also marks the second anniversary of the reinstated and expanded Global Gag Rule, a U.S. policy […]
El consejo de Marta María Blandón para jóvenes activistas: invertir esfuerzos en alianzas y nunca perder de vista quiénes son nuestros adversarios Después de décadas de incansable trabajo en toda Centroamérica, Marta María Blandón es reconocida ampliamente como defensora apasionada y sumamente eficiente de los derechos sexuales y reproductivos de las mujeres en la región. […]