News summary January to March 2026 in Spanish only
8th Regional Conference of the Latin American Consortium against Unsafe Abortion,
31 October-1 November 2025, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Bogota, Colombia
DAY 1
Welcome
Dialogues across regions: Common and diverse South/South and South/North challenges and strategies to sustain and expand access to safe abortion
Institutional and organizational challenges: Responses from organizations and human rights defenders to governmental and reactionary group attacks
Solidarity Across Social Movements in Latin America’s Democracies and Autocracies: Highlights from the II Intermovement Conference and reflections on emerging narratives
Multiple Forms of Violence: Regulatory and policy restrictions, obstetric violence, and abortion criminalization in Latin America, the US, and Africa
Parallel Sessions
– Advocacy Initiatives and Implementation Strategies
– Criminalization
– Abortion Provision and Healthcare Team Experiences
– Litigation
– Situation of Reproductive Justice Defenders
– Research as a Tool for Action
Closed session of the Regional Network for Decision-Making in Reproductive Health, CLACAI
DAY 2
History and Changes in Abortion Access and Provision:
Trajectories and shifts in how people access safe abortions and receive care across countries, fields, and groups
Abortion After 20 Weeks:
Launch of CLACAI’s Good practices guide for abortion care from 20 weeks of pregnancy
Internal and External Challenges for the Safe Abortion Movement:
Solidarity strategies in humanitarian contexts, violence, migrant restrictions, disability movement links, barriers, and double standards for people with disabilities
Legal, Political, and Technical Opportunities:
Connections between environmental and sexual and reproductive rights agendas, task shifting and expanded roles, estimating SRH needs for advocacy, standards for conscientious objection, litigation involving girls and adolescents
Parallel Sessions
– Girls and Adolescents
– Accompany without Criminalizing, Strengthen Alliances
– Abortion After 20 Weeks
– Reproductive Health Monitoring
– Opposition Groups and Narratives
– Advocacy Initiatives and Implementation Strategies
– Platforms and New Technologies for Self-care and Professional Training
Closing Panel:
Horizons for the right and the movement for safe abortion
Satellite Events: CLACAI’s Legal Network Meeting, Provider Meeting on Well-being and Resilience, and Meeting of Midwives
Agenda in English Weblink: Programa Clacai – Inglés