More Reports from 28 September

IRELAND & REPEAL GLOBAL

Dublin (Press Association)                                                    Irish Embassy, London

  
Repeal New York

Thousands march in Dublin 30 September (40,000 reported by RTE ; 30,000 reported by Irish Times). In her opening speech, Abortion Rights Campaign member Angela Coraccio said the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which gives equal rights to a fetus as to the woman carrying it, is “an instrument of torture” and described the country’s current abortion laws as “barbaric”. Irish Times 30 September 2017 + ARC Video

The Global March for Choice was organised by Repeal Global. Events were announced on their Facebook page in solidarity in: London, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, Utrecht, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Melbourne, Sydney, Darwin, New York, Portland, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto – and Moscow joined too!

How many is enough? London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign made a mark on the pavement outside the Irish Embassy for each of the 205,704 who have been exiled from Ireland for safe abortions in the UK since 1983.

SFBLSP – Association des droits de la femme, BURUNDI

VIDEO: La dépénalisation de l’avortement sans risques, possible au Burundi? IWACU WEB TV

The video shows some of the speakers at a meeting organised by SFBLSP–Burundi “Association des droits de la femme” on the decriminalisation of abortion and whether it is possible in Burundi, and also shows interviews with several of the participants.

SPACE ALLIES, JAPAN

Feminist festival draws 500 participants, Tokyo

On September 29, we held a big feminist festival in the Metropolitan Tokyo area, in which more than 500 women gathered. Most participants are the leaders of the women’s liberation movements since the 1970s. The list of participants included an incumbent member of parliament, an ex-member of parliament, and many feminist musicians. In this festival, along with many feminist songs and dances, the leaders of various area of the women’s liberation movements made a speech of their outcomes and prospects of the movements, including reproductive rights movement, lesbian movement, women’s movement against gender pay-gap through court fight, movement against violence against women, movement of women living with disabilities, peace movement, anti-patriarchy collective house movement, and movement creating women’s space, and so on. Ms. Sumie Asatori (photo), the organizer of the festival and the president of the NGO Space Allies, said “Today is International Safe Abortion Day. Let’s remember it. We have to end the criminalization of abortion at the latest before our generation retires.” She also called for efforts to decriminalize abortion all over the world.

E-mail from: Fumi Suzuki, Space Allies

LES JEUNES DE BURKINA FASO & BENIN

Lutte contre la Stigmatisation Liée à l’avortement – ABBEF/Projet Packard

Dans le cadre de la celebration de la journée internationale du droit à l’avortement securisé. Les jeunes du Burkina et du Benin ont lancé une campagne. Faites vous vos badges à travers le lien suivant: http://www.sclz.space/SyclZhLib. Ensuite partager vos images sur cette page grâce au lien suivant https://www.facebook.com/abortion.stigma/.

As part of the celebration of the International Day of the Right to Safe Abortion. Youth from Burkina Faso and Benin launched a campaign. Make your badges through the following link: http://www.sclz.space/SyclZhLib. Then share your images on this page with the following link https://www.facebook.com/abortion.stigma/.

VIDEO: Avortement: dates, chiffres et info clés

+ Où en est l’accès à l’avortement dans le monde ?

INFOGRAPHIES – Pour la Journée mondiale du droit à l’avortement, Le Figaro revient sur l’accès à l’interruption volontaire de grossesse. Un droit parfois bien fragile et accessible pour seulement 39,5% des femmes.

À l’occasion de la Journée mondiale pour le droit à l’avortement, des rassemblements sont organisés ce jeudi à Paris et dans 25 villes françaises, sous le slogan «les femmes décident». Des mouvements semblables se déroulent dans toutes les capitales européennes. Le Figaro dresse un état des lieux de cette pratique, généralisée en Occident mais encore interdite dans de nombreux pays.

Le Figaro, 28 September 2017

DEMONSTRATION, EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS

1,150 people demonstrated outside the European institutions in Brussels

They marched from the Parc du Cinquantenaire to the Schuman Roundabout where speeches were made. Marcela de la Pena Valdivia, the coordinator for the march, says that a setback is now felt. “Some European countries are still prohibiting abortion, such as Malta, Ireland and Poland, except for example when the woman is in any form of danger. In Ireland, the woman must prove that she is suicidal. Having to prove that a woman is in this form of distress is not acknowledging that a woman can consciously decide not to have a child, for any given reason or reasons.” She argued for harmonisation from above for abortion rights, orchestrated by European directives. “Female sexuality is not laid down as a tenet of fundamental human rights at European Union level, giving each country the right to decide on abortion.” The petition intended for MEPs on the issue already has some 22,000 signatures.

Brussels Times, by Lars Andersen, 29 September 2017 ; PHOTO: Belga

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S HEALTH COALITION, USA

Responses (wonderful GIFS)
Ipas México
La Revuelta, Colectiva Feminista, Argentina
FOHA (Fortress of Hope Africa), Kenya
Reseau d’Action et d’Information pour les Femmes (RAIF), República Democrática do Congo
Fundación Cultura de Mujer
Fem, South Africa
Women’s Promotion Centre, Tanzania
SOS Femme, Enfant en Catastrophe (SOSFEC), República Democrática do Congo
M de Mujer, México
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights
International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion

Free abortion services for 28 Sept

The Kalchini branch of the Family Planning Association of India observed International Safe Abortion Day by setting up a free abortion camp at their office in Kalchini today. A member of the association, Tushar Chakraborty said that along with the camp being set up in their office, free abortion services will also be available in various other parts of Kalchini.

http://siliguritimes.com/international-safe-abortion-day-kalchini/

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: PHOTOS