The 9th edition of the Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights (ACSHR) is being held at the Kenyatta International Convention Center in Nairobi, Kenya, from 10-14 February 2020. The conference is split into a youth p...
The Sex Rights Africa Network and Pepeta Africa have launched a petition for free sanitary wear for everyone who needs it. Globally, around a quarter of young people – most of them female – are neither employed nor i...
According to the World Health Organisation, 35 out of a thousand pregnancies in Southern Africa end in abortion, one of the highest rates in the world. Even though abortion has been liberalised in South Africa since 1996, wo...
Two years ago this month, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) launched its Girls Act! initiative in an attempt to reach young women and girls, a group that accounts for 61% of the 4 million youth ages 15-24 currently living wi...
Below is a list of links and useful resources for International Safe Abortion Day. Websites Sex Rights Africa September 28 Ipas International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion Resources a...
28th September marks International Safe Abortion Day. This year, the Hivos Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Fund (RSRHR Fund) has teamed up with The Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), ...
Katswe Sistahood was founded in 2007. It is a movement of young dynamic women fighting for the full attainment of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for all young women in Zimbabwe. It is a platform that enables young ...
This infographic from the Guttmacher Institute shows that the likelihood of unsafe abortion increases if a person seeking abortion lives in a lower-income country. In conjunction with this, the rate of abortion in high inc...
The Sex Rights Africa Network, in conjunction with Gateway Health Institute held a Network Learning Discussion on Safe Abortion in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2018. Read the background note here. ...
As part of the build up to September 28, Sex Rights Africa will be sharing factsheets, infographics and other information on the state of abortion worldwide. You can follow this link if you would like to contribute any materi...
September 28 is International Day for Safe, Legal and Accessible Abortion – now known as International Safe Abortion Day. International Safe Abortion Day came about as a result of campaigning and activism for safe abortion ...
