What’s been happening in Ireland
… the Irish government, and especially Simon Harris. The story from December 2018 In December 2018, staff from the World Health Organization and pro-choice doctors from the UK, Canada and USA …
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EL SALVADOR – “You are not alone!” El Salvador Supreme Court quashes 30-year sentence for miscarriage
… Association for the Decriminalisation of Abortion (Agrupación Ciudadana) supported her fight for freedom from the time she was jailed. SOURCES: CBC Radio Canada, by Sheena Goodyear/ AP files, 20 February …
JAMAICA – Survivor of priest’s sexual abuse now a member of an international group fighting abuse
… influential. She moved to Canada at age 25 for her studies, and then to Los Angeles, where she now teaches at a university and works as a psychiatric neurologist. Seeking …
ARGENTINA – Queering abortion rights: notes from Argentina
… reproductive justice and addressed abortion rights as human rights. In the USA and Canada, [there has been] controversy, for example, whether references to ‘women’ should be kept in abortion-related language …
INTERNATIONAL PARLIAMENTARIANS CONFERENCE – ICPD Programme of Action
… was held on 22-23 October 2018 in Ottawa and co-hosted by UNFPA, Global Affairs Canada, Canadian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, and Action Canada for Sexual Rights. It …
CANADA – 2018 Pro-choice victories
This timeline tallies pro-choice victories in Canada over 2018. Included are service-related progress, court decisions, Ad Standards decisions, failed anti-choice endeavours, and other successes. SOURCE: Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, …
Developing an Advocacy Agenda for Abortion in the 21st Century – Report of an International Forum – Lisbon 5-6-7 Sept 2018
… contraception and abortion, in order to remove discrimination against women on the grounds of their sex. Joanna Erdman (Dalhousie University, Canada) challenged perceptions of and links between time limits, human …
CANADA – Ottawa to encourage more countries to offer contraception and abortion, International Development Minister says
Canada will continue to encourage other countries to offer more family planning services, Marie-Claude Bibeau, the International Development Minister said on 11 November. She said that reproductive and sexual education …
CANADA / IRELAND / NORTHERN IRELAND – Crossing Troubled Waters
This book examines and compares the stories of abortion access in Prince Edward Island, Canada, Northern Ireland and Ireland. It is co-edited by Dr Colleen MacQuarrie, Fiona Bloomer, Claire Pierson, …
CANADA – Funding opportunity: New initiative launched
… Request for Proposals. Submit by 12 February 2019. The OPTions Initiative is in direct alignment with Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, and applies a feminist investment approach that places an …
CANADA – Nurse practitioners can now prescribe abortion pills in Saskatchewan
Nurse practitioners in Saskatchewan can now prescribe medical abortion pills, which became available in Saskatchewan last year. Nurse practitioners had been advocating to be able to write prescriptions for the …
CANADA – Abortion pill inequality: How access varies widely across Canada
… because their family doctors would not prescribe it. In some parts of Canada, though, Mifegymiso is making significant inroads, especially after Health Canada relaxed the rules around prescribing. “We are …
FEATURE: BRAZIL – Supreme Court of Brazil: Public Hearing on the Decriminalization of Abortion
… inseguro). Uno otro en Español. [1] See http://sxpolitics.org/abortion-rights-at-the-brazilian-supreme-court/16796 [2] The United States (1973), Canada (1988) and Colombia (2006) [3] See Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado and Débora Alves Maciel (2017) …
FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO – Indications for abortion: new annotated bibliographies 2018
Fetal anomaly bibliography on legal aspects of fetal anomaly and their implications for counselling, service delivery, and abortion laws and policies Rape or incest bibliography on legal and policy dimensions …
FINLAND – Opposition parties censor anti-abortion Foreign Minister Soini
… anti-abortion demonstration in Canada with his deputy in May 2018, while on an official visit, although he attended it on his own time, not officially, as well as anti-abortion comments …
SOLIDARITY REQUEST: A call to recognize, protect and support women human rights defenders and women’s movements
… upcoming United Nations General Assembly. Endorsed by: Amnesty International – Canada CARE Canada Nobel Women’s Initiative Oxfam Canada The MATCH International Women’s Fund The World Federalist Movement – Canada | …