How is climate change affecting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls in Nepal? And what can be done to ensure they have leadership roles as climate change response plans are developed in local communities?
Beyond the individual: Research shows abortion access has widespread benefits
It’s a post-Roe world, and Kenya is already feeling the shockwaves
Overturning Roe v. Wade: A rights-denying move that will devastate access to abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade officially denies millions of U.S. residents fundamental rights—to health care, to bodily autonomy, and to freedom.
‘This is a fight without borders’
A U.S. state legislator working to protect abortion access in her state is finding inspiration in Mexico’s abortion rights movement. Here’s our Q & A with Rep. Julie von Haefen of North Carolina:
Upholding migrants’ sexual and reproductive rights in Bolivia
Harms of overturning Roe will circle the globe
Dialogue explores ways to expand abortion access in DRC
Empowering women and girls in Niassa
‘The knowledge and courage to do more’
Ipas statement on U.S. Supreme Court leaked decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The leaked draft from the U.S. Supreme Court signaling the court’s intent to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that has guaranteed legal abortion in the United States for nearly 50 years, is a radical, rights-denying move.
Notes from the field: Mexico City 15 years after law change
In Mexico City this week, I got a renewed sense of what it means to make reproductive rights a reality.
‘The medicines float away in the flood. What do we do then?’
Ipas Africa Alliance celebrates a decade of partnership with Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital
Abortion decriminalized in Colombia: both a win and a starting point
‘She had done nothing wrong’
How abortion rights advocates cleared the name of Manuela in a landmark case in El Salvador
Registration of abortion pills as essential medicine: a critical step on the road to access
Community support for abortion care: Putting women’s lives over politics in Uganda
In the beautiful Tororo District of Eastern Uganda, where Tororo Rock rises in the distance, you can find the Petta Health Centre III—an Ipas supported-facility where clients come from across the region to receive comprehensive and caring abortion services from an Ipas-trained provider.
As climate change strikes again in Southern Africa, Ipas prepares to respond to reproductive health needs
In the wake of tropical cyclone Ana, which has killed more than 80 people in Southern Africa, Ipas teams in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia are preparing a coordinated response to ensure that reproductive health care, including access to postabortion care and contraception, remains available to women and girls affected by the storm.