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By Patty Skuster, Ipas Senior Legal Advisor This morning the Trump Administration announced further expansion of the Global Gag Rule, which will result in even greater harm to the health and lives of women and families around the world. The Administration also announced reductions in funding to the Organization of American States—an important voice for […]
A Q & A with Anu Kumar (Ipas President & CEO), Kristen Shellenberg (Ipas Senior Researcher) and Alex Teixeira (Ipas Senior Technical Advisor) Why was this toolkit developed? Abortion stigma plays a critical role in the social, medical and legal marginalization of abortion around the world and leads to negative outcomes for women, girls, trans […]
Muadi Mukenge on UN’s 2019 Commission on the Status of Women From March 11 to 22, world leaders and women’s rights advocates—including Ipas staff—will attend the UN’s 63rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the principal UN space committed to women’s rights. This year, the global conference is focusing on how public services and […]
Dra. Graciela Lukin, ginecobstetra argentina y defensora de los derechos de las mujeres, habla sobre lo que la motiva Graciela Lukin siempre quiso ser útil a la gente. A los 17 años, cuando las personas empezaron a preguntarle qué iba a estudiar al terminar el secundario, decidió que quería ser instrumentadora. Ingresó en la facultad […]
Sesión de preguntas y respuestas con Dra. María Paula Botta, prestadora de servicios y promotora argentina María Paula Botta es médica y prestadora de servicios de aborto en Rosario, Argentina. Promotora apasionada de la salud y los derechos sexuales y reproductivos, Botta es integrante de la Red de profesionales de la salud por el derecho […]
Argentinian provider Dr. Graciela Lukin on what motivates her Read the profile in Spanish here. Graciela Lukin always wanted to help people. At 17, when people began to ask her what she planned to do after high school, she decided she wanted to pursue medicine. She enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires’ School of Medicine, where she would complete […]
A Q & A with Argentinian provider and advocate Dr. María Paula Botta Read the Q & A in Spanish here. María Paula Botta is a physician and abortion provider in Rosario, Argentina. A passionate advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights, Botta is member of the Network of Health Professionals for the Right […]
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. […]
Marta María Blandón’s advice to young activists: Invest in partnerships, never lose sight of adversaries En Español After decades of tireless work across Central America, Marta María Blandón is widely recognized as a highly effective and passionate champion for women’s sexual and reproductive rights in the region. “Marta María is never afraid to speak up and speak out when […]
Mexico has the second-largest population of Catholics in the world, which typically is seen as posing a major obstacle to expanding legal access to abortion. But a new study challenges that notion. The study, published in the journal Contraception, says Catholicism is “not an unsurmountable barrier to liberalization of abortion.” Using survey data from 2,669 […]
Thanks to their dedication, more women and girls have access to safe abortion and contraception Abortion is legal in India, but that doesn’t mean women and girls can easily access a safe abortion when they need one. In this sprawling country of more than one billion people, unsafe abortion is still far more common than […]