Henvendelse af 6/10-20 fra Marie Stopes International om International Safe Abortion Day

To mark International Safe Abortion Day, we were delighted to launch our new
2019/20 My Body, My Voice report at our International Safe Abortion Day briefing,
alongside presentations from Ipas and the Asia Safe Abortion Partnership on how to
support self-management of abortion care.
The briefing launched My Body, My Voice sharing insights from 1,800 safe abortion
clients and recommendations for improving access. The briefing also included learnings
from MSI’s new cross-partner evidence brief, pulling together data and insights on how
medical abortion can be accessed safely from pharmacies.
The webinar can be watched via our website and the slides are available to download.
All former Spotlight webinars can be accessed via MSI’s Spotlight blog and you can
subscribe to our Spotlight mailing list to be updated on future events.
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To mark International Safe Abortion
Day, MSI and partners called for an end
to unsafe abortion, sharing insights on
how we can get there.
On 28 September, MSI colleagues
featured on a webinar for the British Royal
College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists. Our VP and Director of
Technical Services, Helen Blackholly,
wrote about the role of safe self-care in
eliminating unsafe abortion on MSI’s
Spotlight blog, and we were featured by
the UK’s Faculty for Sexual and
Reproductive Healthcare: Abortion is
healthcare. Let’s ensure it’s safe.
What else have we been up to?
World Contraception Day
Last month we also celebrated World Contraception Day
on 26 September. Read our post on lessons learned
from providing contraception across the globe, with
information from our annual client interviews and data.
Contraceptive myths continue to be a key barrier for
women and girls. To help debunk these, we released a
blog post answering some of the most commonly asked
questions about contraception.
We also contributed to a FIGO article - World
Contraception Day 2020: Four Perspectives - marking the
day and highlighting how the pandemic has affected
services and the ways in which we can ensure that
contraception remains available to all across the world.
UN General Assembly (UNGA)
This year’s UNGA provided an opportunity for world leaders to discuss some of the most
pressing issues facing the world today: COVID-19 recovery, achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals, and progressing on gender equality.
To mark UNGA and the SDG Action Zone we published a Spotlight blog, committing to
and calling on others to work in partnership across sectors to achieve gender equality, the
SDGs and to build resilience to climate change.
Read the blog post here
Protecting SRHR
While many have used UNGA to promote women’s rights and SRHR, there have also been
attempts to attack these rights, this time led by the US Government launching the report of
'the Commission on Unalienable Rights'. With increasingly well-funded and strategic attacks
on SRHR and women’s rights more broadly, it’s more important than ever that we stand
strong and work with partners to ensure SRHR are protected. With the High-Level Meeting
on the 25th
anniversary of Beijing happening last week, we called on Member States to
present concrete actions and commitments to accelerate the realisation of gender
equality by 2030.
We also recommitted last month to the Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based
Violence in Emergencies at its UNGA Side-Event launching the 2021-2025 Road Map which
featured our Programmes Director from Zimbabwe, Rumbidzai Matewe, talking about the
importance of tailored and compassionate SRHR care and the need to remove the
unnecessary barriers which restrict timely access services for survivors.
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