At present, March eighth, is Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD), a day put aside greater than 100 years in the past for ladies world wide to advocate for our rights and liberties.
This IWD we will count on to see inspirational memes and graphics throughout social media, coming from firms, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and politicians from all political backgrounds touting ladies’s empowerment.
It’s enormously essential to see and listen to this sort of public affirmation — notably throughout a time by which some supposedly mainstream retailers, establishments, and politicians are fomenting a backlash in opposition to gender justice progress and even making an attempt to revive the archaic concept that “a girl’s place is within the house.”
We also needs to bear in mind and have fun the truth that IWD originated as a approach for ladies in numerous international locations to rally for elementary liberties — like the proper to vote, to carry public workplace, to work in secure environments, and to name for peace and for an finish to discrimination and misogyny. IWD is a day to advocate for gender justice and to construct solidarity throughout borders — one thing that may clearly take quite a lot of flowery #IWD social media posts.
In fact, one critically essential facet of gender equality is reproductive freedom. Equal entry to abortion as a part of the complete vary of maternal healthcare is a key element of making certain the proper to manage one’s physique with out authorities interference, which itself is crucial to gender equality.
And sadly, abortion rights in lots of states, together with North Carolina, have been eroding for years — a pattern that’s accelerated at a daunting tempo because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Since that call, 21 states have both banned or severely restricted abortion entry.
Fortunately, during the last decade, a number of different nations have been transferring in the wrong way by liberalizing and modernizing their abortion legal guidelines. The record contains:
- Eire repealed by common vote its restrictive abortion ban in 2018.
- Argentina’s legislature decriminalized abortion as much as 14 weeks in 2020.
- The Supreme Court docket of Mexico declared the nation’s absolute ban on abortion to be unconstitutional in 2021. This identical courtroom then dominated that abortion needs to be decriminalized on the nationwide degree in 2023.
- The Constitutional Court docket of Columbia dominated to decriminalize abortion as much as 24 weeks in 2022.
- Simply this week, France enshrined the proper to abortion within the nation’s structure.
And whereas there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward to making sure that everybody throughout the globe who wants entry to abortion can get it in a well timed and dignified method, the pattern in most international locations is towards imposing fewer restrictions on care. Certainly, america is now a world outlier and one among solely 4 international locations which have rolled again abortion entry prior to now decade, together with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.
Three of the international locations listed above (Argentina, Columbia, and Mexico) have been half of what’s often known as Latin America’s Inexperienced Wave. Abortion rights activists in these international locations, the place conservative and anti-abortion beliefs have been lengthy dominant, have spent many years advocating for change on the native governmental degree, in addition to on the private degree — organizing communities one family at a time along with offering sensible care and help for folks in search of abortion, even at nice authorized danger to themselves.
As they organized particular person communities to return collectively on state and nationwide ranges, the advocates additionally appeared to their colleagues in different international locations, together with america — to be taught what was working, the way to modify and adapt profitable campaigns to be related to their communities, what traps and pitfalls to keep away from, and the way they may collaborate to additional transfer their efforts ahead.
Now, in step with the spirit of IWD, it might be time for advocates right here to take a cue from this apply. Whereas the dominant U.S. media narrative portrays our nation because the all-knowing mannequin for different democracies and too distinctive and distinctive to derive any classes from others, the success of activists elsewhere tells a unique story. These victories clarify that it’s previous time for abortion rights advocates to look to our colleagues within the International South to assist lead us out of our harmful backslide.
And the reality is that anti-abortion actors, notably from our nation, are already sharing their concepts to limit reproductive freedom across the globe. It’s time we constructed actual solidarity throughout borders to counter these forces.
There are clearly vital variations for each neighborhood, even inside international locations, in order that there’ll hardly ever be a “one-size-fits-all” resolution that may be delivered absolutely shaped to all of us doing this work. However the concepts, inspiration, instruments, and empowerment that we will develop via cross-border cooperation will assist enormously in preserving us engaged for the prolonged and infrequently tough problem that lies forward — the problem of not simply restoring what was misplaced, however of constructing the world of our deepest aspirations by which reproductive freedom is a real actuality for everybody.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day let’s make a dedication to look past our borders, no matter these could also be, to construct a neighborhood of daring and related advocates.
Be part of Professional-Alternative North Carolina with our companions El Pueblo and Ipas for a panel dialogue commemorating IWD! The dialogue will carry collectively advocates and suppliers from North Carolina and Latin America to share our experiences and our concepts of how we will be taught from one another and the way we will work collectively to make sure reproductive freedom for all.
What: Organizing for Abortion Entry: A Cross-Border Perspective
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm
The place: On Zoom – Register right here! Spanish and English interpretation can be supplied.
At present, March eighth, is Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD), a day put aside greater than 100 years in the past for ladies world wide to advocate for our rights and liberties.
This IWD we will count on to see inspirational memes and graphics throughout social media, coming from firms, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and politicians from all political backgrounds touting ladies’s empowerment.
It’s enormously essential to see and listen to this sort of public affirmation — notably throughout a time by which some supposedly mainstream retailers, establishments, and politicians are fomenting a backlash in opposition to gender justice progress and even making an attempt to revive the archaic concept that “a girl’s place is within the house.”
We also needs to bear in mind and have fun the truth that IWD originated as a approach for ladies in numerous international locations to rally for elementary liberties — like the proper to vote, to carry public workplace, to work in secure environments, and to name for peace and for an finish to discrimination and misogyny. IWD is a day to advocate for gender justice and to construct solidarity throughout borders — one thing that may clearly take quite a lot of flowery #IWD social media posts.
In fact, one critically essential facet of gender equality is reproductive freedom. Equal entry to abortion as a part of the complete vary of maternal healthcare is a key element of making certain the proper to manage one’s physique with out authorities interference, which itself is crucial to gender equality.
And sadly, abortion rights in lots of states, together with North Carolina, have been eroding for years — a pattern that’s accelerated at a daunting tempo because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Since that call, 21 states have both banned or severely restricted abortion entry.
Fortunately, during the last decade, a number of different nations have been transferring in the wrong way by liberalizing and modernizing their abortion legal guidelines. The record contains:
- Eire repealed by common vote its restrictive abortion ban in 2018.
- Argentina’s legislature decriminalized abortion as much as 14 weeks in 2020.
- The Supreme Court docket of Mexico declared the nation’s absolute ban on abortion to be unconstitutional in 2021. This identical courtroom then dominated that abortion needs to be decriminalized on the nationwide degree in 2023.
- The Constitutional Court docket of Columbia dominated to decriminalize abortion as much as 24 weeks in 2022.
- Simply this week, France enshrined the proper to abortion within the nation’s structure.
And whereas there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward to making sure that everybody throughout the globe who wants entry to abortion can get it in a well timed and dignified method, the pattern in most international locations is towards imposing fewer restrictions on care. Certainly, america is now a world outlier and one among solely 4 international locations which have rolled again abortion entry prior to now decade, together with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.
Three of the international locations listed above (Argentina, Columbia, and Mexico) have been half of what’s often known as Latin America’s Inexperienced Wave. Abortion rights activists in these international locations, the place conservative and anti-abortion beliefs have been lengthy dominant, have spent many years advocating for change on the native governmental degree, in addition to on the private degree — organizing communities one family at a time along with offering sensible care and help for folks in search of abortion, even at nice authorized danger to themselves.
As they organized particular person communities to return collectively on state and nationwide ranges, the advocates additionally appeared to their colleagues in different international locations, together with america — to be taught what was working, the way to modify and adapt profitable campaigns to be related to their communities, what traps and pitfalls to keep away from, and the way they may collaborate to additional transfer their efforts ahead.
Now, in step with the spirit of IWD, it might be time for advocates right here to take a cue from this apply. Whereas the dominant U.S. media narrative portrays our nation because the all-knowing mannequin for different democracies and too distinctive and distinctive to derive any classes from others, the success of activists elsewhere tells a unique story. These victories clarify that it’s previous time for abortion rights advocates to look to our colleagues within the International South to assist lead us out of our harmful backslide.
And the reality is that anti-abortion actors, notably from our nation, are already sharing their concepts to limit reproductive freedom across the globe. It’s time we constructed actual solidarity throughout borders to counter these forces.
There are clearly vital variations for each neighborhood, even inside international locations, in order that there’ll hardly ever be a “one-size-fits-all” resolution that may be delivered absolutely shaped to all of us doing this work. However the concepts, inspiration, instruments, and empowerment that we will develop via cross-border cooperation will assist enormously in preserving us engaged for the prolonged and infrequently tough problem that lies forward — the problem of not simply restoring what was misplaced, however of constructing the world of our deepest aspirations by which reproductive freedom is a real actuality for everybody.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day let’s make a dedication to look past our borders, no matter these could also be, to construct a neighborhood of daring and related advocates.
Be part of Professional-Alternative North Carolina with our companions El Pueblo and Ipas for a panel dialogue commemorating IWD! The dialogue will carry collectively advocates and suppliers from North Carolina and Latin America to share our experiences and our concepts of how we will be taught from one another and the way we will work collectively to make sure reproductive freedom for all.
What: Organizing for Abortion Entry: A Cross-Border Perspective
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm
The place: On Zoom – Register right here! Spanish and English interpretation can be supplied.
At present, March eighth, is Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD), a day put aside greater than 100 years in the past for ladies world wide to advocate for our rights and liberties.
This IWD we will count on to see inspirational memes and graphics throughout social media, coming from firms, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and politicians from all political backgrounds touting ladies’s empowerment.
It’s enormously essential to see and listen to this sort of public affirmation — notably throughout a time by which some supposedly mainstream retailers, establishments, and politicians are fomenting a backlash in opposition to gender justice progress and even making an attempt to revive the archaic concept that “a girl’s place is within the house.”
We also needs to bear in mind and have fun the truth that IWD originated as a approach for ladies in numerous international locations to rally for elementary liberties — like the proper to vote, to carry public workplace, to work in secure environments, and to name for peace and for an finish to discrimination and misogyny. IWD is a day to advocate for gender justice and to construct solidarity throughout borders — one thing that may clearly take quite a lot of flowery #IWD social media posts.
In fact, one critically essential facet of gender equality is reproductive freedom. Equal entry to abortion as a part of the complete vary of maternal healthcare is a key element of making certain the proper to manage one’s physique with out authorities interference, which itself is crucial to gender equality.
And sadly, abortion rights in lots of states, together with North Carolina, have been eroding for years — a pattern that’s accelerated at a daunting tempo because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Since that call, 21 states have both banned or severely restricted abortion entry.
Fortunately, during the last decade, a number of different nations have been transferring in the wrong way by liberalizing and modernizing their abortion legal guidelines. The record contains:
- Eire repealed by common vote its restrictive abortion ban in 2018.
- Argentina’s legislature decriminalized abortion as much as 14 weeks in 2020.
- The Supreme Court docket of Mexico declared the nation’s absolute ban on abortion to be unconstitutional in 2021. This identical courtroom then dominated that abortion needs to be decriminalized on the nationwide degree in 2023.
- The Constitutional Court docket of Columbia dominated to decriminalize abortion as much as 24 weeks in 2022.
- Simply this week, France enshrined the proper to abortion within the nation’s structure.
And whereas there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward to making sure that everybody throughout the globe who wants entry to abortion can get it in a well timed and dignified method, the pattern in most international locations is towards imposing fewer restrictions on care. Certainly, america is now a world outlier and one among solely 4 international locations which have rolled again abortion entry prior to now decade, together with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.
Three of the international locations listed above (Argentina, Columbia, and Mexico) have been half of what’s often known as Latin America’s Inexperienced Wave. Abortion rights activists in these international locations, the place conservative and anti-abortion beliefs have been lengthy dominant, have spent many years advocating for change on the native governmental degree, in addition to on the private degree — organizing communities one family at a time along with offering sensible care and help for folks in search of abortion, even at nice authorized danger to themselves.
As they organized particular person communities to return collectively on state and nationwide ranges, the advocates additionally appeared to their colleagues in different international locations, together with america — to be taught what was working, the way to modify and adapt profitable campaigns to be related to their communities, what traps and pitfalls to keep away from, and the way they may collaborate to additional transfer their efforts ahead.
Now, in step with the spirit of IWD, it might be time for advocates right here to take a cue from this apply. Whereas the dominant U.S. media narrative portrays our nation because the all-knowing mannequin for different democracies and too distinctive and distinctive to derive any classes from others, the success of activists elsewhere tells a unique story. These victories clarify that it’s previous time for abortion rights advocates to look to our colleagues within the International South to assist lead us out of our harmful backslide.
And the reality is that anti-abortion actors, notably from our nation, are already sharing their concepts to limit reproductive freedom across the globe. It’s time we constructed actual solidarity throughout borders to counter these forces.
There are clearly vital variations for each neighborhood, even inside international locations, in order that there’ll hardly ever be a “one-size-fits-all” resolution that may be delivered absolutely shaped to all of us doing this work. However the concepts, inspiration, instruments, and empowerment that we will develop via cross-border cooperation will assist enormously in preserving us engaged for the prolonged and infrequently tough problem that lies forward — the problem of not simply restoring what was misplaced, however of constructing the world of our deepest aspirations by which reproductive freedom is a real actuality for everybody.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day let’s make a dedication to look past our borders, no matter these could also be, to construct a neighborhood of daring and related advocates.
Be part of Professional-Alternative North Carolina with our companions El Pueblo and Ipas for a panel dialogue commemorating IWD! The dialogue will carry collectively advocates and suppliers from North Carolina and Latin America to share our experiences and our concepts of how we will be taught from one another and the way we will work collectively to make sure reproductive freedom for all.
What: Organizing for Abortion Entry: A Cross-Border Perspective
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm
The place: On Zoom – Register right here! Spanish and English interpretation can be supplied.
At present, March eighth, is Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD), a day put aside greater than 100 years in the past for ladies world wide to advocate for our rights and liberties.
This IWD we will count on to see inspirational memes and graphics throughout social media, coming from firms, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and politicians from all political backgrounds touting ladies’s empowerment.
It’s enormously essential to see and listen to this sort of public affirmation — notably throughout a time by which some supposedly mainstream retailers, establishments, and politicians are fomenting a backlash in opposition to gender justice progress and even making an attempt to revive the archaic concept that “a girl’s place is within the house.”
We also needs to bear in mind and have fun the truth that IWD originated as a approach for ladies in numerous international locations to rally for elementary liberties — like the proper to vote, to carry public workplace, to work in secure environments, and to name for peace and for an finish to discrimination and misogyny. IWD is a day to advocate for gender justice and to construct solidarity throughout borders — one thing that may clearly take quite a lot of flowery #IWD social media posts.
In fact, one critically essential facet of gender equality is reproductive freedom. Equal entry to abortion as a part of the complete vary of maternal healthcare is a key element of making certain the proper to manage one’s physique with out authorities interference, which itself is crucial to gender equality.
And sadly, abortion rights in lots of states, together with North Carolina, have been eroding for years — a pattern that’s accelerated at a daunting tempo because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Since that call, 21 states have both banned or severely restricted abortion entry.
Fortunately, during the last decade, a number of different nations have been transferring in the wrong way by liberalizing and modernizing their abortion legal guidelines. The record contains:
- Eire repealed by common vote its restrictive abortion ban in 2018.
- Argentina’s legislature decriminalized abortion as much as 14 weeks in 2020.
- The Supreme Court docket of Mexico declared the nation’s absolute ban on abortion to be unconstitutional in 2021. This identical courtroom then dominated that abortion needs to be decriminalized on the nationwide degree in 2023.
- The Constitutional Court docket of Columbia dominated to decriminalize abortion as much as 24 weeks in 2022.
- Simply this week, France enshrined the proper to abortion within the nation’s structure.
And whereas there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward to making sure that everybody throughout the globe who wants entry to abortion can get it in a well timed and dignified method, the pattern in most international locations is towards imposing fewer restrictions on care. Certainly, america is now a world outlier and one among solely 4 international locations which have rolled again abortion entry prior to now decade, together with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.
Three of the international locations listed above (Argentina, Columbia, and Mexico) have been half of what’s often known as Latin America’s Inexperienced Wave. Abortion rights activists in these international locations, the place conservative and anti-abortion beliefs have been lengthy dominant, have spent many years advocating for change on the native governmental degree, in addition to on the private degree — organizing communities one family at a time along with offering sensible care and help for folks in search of abortion, even at nice authorized danger to themselves.
As they organized particular person communities to return collectively on state and nationwide ranges, the advocates additionally appeared to their colleagues in different international locations, together with america — to be taught what was working, the way to modify and adapt profitable campaigns to be related to their communities, what traps and pitfalls to keep away from, and the way they may collaborate to additional transfer their efforts ahead.
Now, in step with the spirit of IWD, it might be time for advocates right here to take a cue from this apply. Whereas the dominant U.S. media narrative portrays our nation because the all-knowing mannequin for different democracies and too distinctive and distinctive to derive any classes from others, the success of activists elsewhere tells a unique story. These victories clarify that it’s previous time for abortion rights advocates to look to our colleagues within the International South to assist lead us out of our harmful backslide.
And the reality is that anti-abortion actors, notably from our nation, are already sharing their concepts to limit reproductive freedom across the globe. It’s time we constructed actual solidarity throughout borders to counter these forces.
There are clearly vital variations for each neighborhood, even inside international locations, in order that there’ll hardly ever be a “one-size-fits-all” resolution that may be delivered absolutely shaped to all of us doing this work. However the concepts, inspiration, instruments, and empowerment that we will develop via cross-border cooperation will assist enormously in preserving us engaged for the prolonged and infrequently tough problem that lies forward — the problem of not simply restoring what was misplaced, however of constructing the world of our deepest aspirations by which reproductive freedom is a real actuality for everybody.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day let’s make a dedication to look past our borders, no matter these could also be, to construct a neighborhood of daring and related advocates.
Be part of Professional-Alternative North Carolina with our companions El Pueblo and Ipas for a panel dialogue commemorating IWD! The dialogue will carry collectively advocates and suppliers from North Carolina and Latin America to share our experiences and our concepts of how we will be taught from one another and the way we will work collectively to make sure reproductive freedom for all.
What: Organizing for Abortion Entry: A Cross-Border Perspective
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm
The place: On Zoom – Register right here! Spanish and English interpretation can be supplied.
At present, March eighth, is Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD), a day put aside greater than 100 years in the past for ladies world wide to advocate for our rights and liberties.
This IWD we will count on to see inspirational memes and graphics throughout social media, coming from firms, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and politicians from all political backgrounds touting ladies’s empowerment.
It’s enormously essential to see and listen to this sort of public affirmation — notably throughout a time by which some supposedly mainstream retailers, establishments, and politicians are fomenting a backlash in opposition to gender justice progress and even making an attempt to revive the archaic concept that “a girl’s place is within the house.”
We also needs to bear in mind and have fun the truth that IWD originated as a approach for ladies in numerous international locations to rally for elementary liberties — like the proper to vote, to carry public workplace, to work in secure environments, and to name for peace and for an finish to discrimination and misogyny. IWD is a day to advocate for gender justice and to construct solidarity throughout borders — one thing that may clearly take quite a lot of flowery #IWD social media posts.
In fact, one critically essential facet of gender equality is reproductive freedom. Equal entry to abortion as a part of the complete vary of maternal healthcare is a key element of making certain the proper to manage one’s physique with out authorities interference, which itself is crucial to gender equality.
And sadly, abortion rights in lots of states, together with North Carolina, have been eroding for years — a pattern that’s accelerated at a daunting tempo because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Since that call, 21 states have both banned or severely restricted abortion entry.
Fortunately, during the last decade, a number of different nations have been transferring in the wrong way by liberalizing and modernizing their abortion legal guidelines. The record contains:
- Eire repealed by common vote its restrictive abortion ban in 2018.
- Argentina’s legislature decriminalized abortion as much as 14 weeks in 2020.
- The Supreme Court docket of Mexico declared the nation’s absolute ban on abortion to be unconstitutional in 2021. This identical courtroom then dominated that abortion needs to be decriminalized on the nationwide degree in 2023.
- The Constitutional Court docket of Columbia dominated to decriminalize abortion as much as 24 weeks in 2022.
- Simply this week, France enshrined the proper to abortion within the nation’s structure.
And whereas there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward to making sure that everybody throughout the globe who wants entry to abortion can get it in a well timed and dignified method, the pattern in most international locations is towards imposing fewer restrictions on care. Certainly, america is now a world outlier and one among solely 4 international locations which have rolled again abortion entry prior to now decade, together with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.
Three of the international locations listed above (Argentina, Columbia, and Mexico) have been half of what’s often known as Latin America’s Inexperienced Wave. Abortion rights activists in these international locations, the place conservative and anti-abortion beliefs have been lengthy dominant, have spent many years advocating for change on the native governmental degree, in addition to on the private degree — organizing communities one family at a time along with offering sensible care and help for folks in search of abortion, even at nice authorized danger to themselves.
As they organized particular person communities to return collectively on state and nationwide ranges, the advocates additionally appeared to their colleagues in different international locations, together with america — to be taught what was working, the way to modify and adapt profitable campaigns to be related to their communities, what traps and pitfalls to keep away from, and the way they may collaborate to additional transfer their efforts ahead.
Now, in step with the spirit of IWD, it might be time for advocates right here to take a cue from this apply. Whereas the dominant U.S. media narrative portrays our nation because the all-knowing mannequin for different democracies and too distinctive and distinctive to derive any classes from others, the success of activists elsewhere tells a unique story. These victories clarify that it’s previous time for abortion rights advocates to look to our colleagues within the International South to assist lead us out of our harmful backslide.
And the reality is that anti-abortion actors, notably from our nation, are already sharing their concepts to limit reproductive freedom across the globe. It’s time we constructed actual solidarity throughout borders to counter these forces.
There are clearly vital variations for each neighborhood, even inside international locations, in order that there’ll hardly ever be a “one-size-fits-all” resolution that may be delivered absolutely shaped to all of us doing this work. However the concepts, inspiration, instruments, and empowerment that we will develop via cross-border cooperation will assist enormously in preserving us engaged for the prolonged and infrequently tough problem that lies forward — the problem of not simply restoring what was misplaced, however of constructing the world of our deepest aspirations by which reproductive freedom is a real actuality for everybody.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day let’s make a dedication to look past our borders, no matter these could also be, to construct a neighborhood of daring and related advocates.
Be part of Professional-Alternative North Carolina with our companions El Pueblo and Ipas for a panel dialogue commemorating IWD! The dialogue will carry collectively advocates and suppliers from North Carolina and Latin America to share our experiences and our concepts of how we will be taught from one another and the way we will work collectively to make sure reproductive freedom for all.
What: Organizing for Abortion Entry: A Cross-Border Perspective
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm
The place: On Zoom – Register right here! Spanish and English interpretation can be supplied.
At present, March eighth, is Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD), a day put aside greater than 100 years in the past for ladies world wide to advocate for our rights and liberties.
This IWD we will count on to see inspirational memes and graphics throughout social media, coming from firms, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and politicians from all political backgrounds touting ladies’s empowerment.
It’s enormously essential to see and listen to this sort of public affirmation — notably throughout a time by which some supposedly mainstream retailers, establishments, and politicians are fomenting a backlash in opposition to gender justice progress and even making an attempt to revive the archaic concept that “a girl’s place is within the house.”
We also needs to bear in mind and have fun the truth that IWD originated as a approach for ladies in numerous international locations to rally for elementary liberties — like the proper to vote, to carry public workplace, to work in secure environments, and to name for peace and for an finish to discrimination and misogyny. IWD is a day to advocate for gender justice and to construct solidarity throughout borders — one thing that may clearly take quite a lot of flowery #IWD social media posts.
In fact, one critically essential facet of gender equality is reproductive freedom. Equal entry to abortion as a part of the complete vary of maternal healthcare is a key element of making certain the proper to manage one’s physique with out authorities interference, which itself is crucial to gender equality.
And sadly, abortion rights in lots of states, together with North Carolina, have been eroding for years — a pattern that’s accelerated at a daunting tempo because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Since that call, 21 states have both banned or severely restricted abortion entry.
Fortunately, during the last decade, a number of different nations have been transferring in the wrong way by liberalizing and modernizing their abortion legal guidelines. The record contains:
- Eire repealed by common vote its restrictive abortion ban in 2018.
- Argentina’s legislature decriminalized abortion as much as 14 weeks in 2020.
- The Supreme Court docket of Mexico declared the nation’s absolute ban on abortion to be unconstitutional in 2021. This identical courtroom then dominated that abortion needs to be decriminalized on the nationwide degree in 2023.
- The Constitutional Court docket of Columbia dominated to decriminalize abortion as much as 24 weeks in 2022.
- Simply this week, France enshrined the proper to abortion within the nation’s structure.
And whereas there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward to making sure that everybody throughout the globe who wants entry to abortion can get it in a well timed and dignified method, the pattern in most international locations is towards imposing fewer restrictions on care. Certainly, america is now a world outlier and one among solely 4 international locations which have rolled again abortion entry prior to now decade, together with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.
Three of the international locations listed above (Argentina, Columbia, and Mexico) have been half of what’s often known as Latin America’s Inexperienced Wave. Abortion rights activists in these international locations, the place conservative and anti-abortion beliefs have been lengthy dominant, have spent many years advocating for change on the native governmental degree, in addition to on the private degree — organizing communities one family at a time along with offering sensible care and help for folks in search of abortion, even at nice authorized danger to themselves.
As they organized particular person communities to return collectively on state and nationwide ranges, the advocates additionally appeared to their colleagues in different international locations, together with america — to be taught what was working, the way to modify and adapt profitable campaigns to be related to their communities, what traps and pitfalls to keep away from, and the way they may collaborate to additional transfer their efforts ahead.
Now, in step with the spirit of IWD, it might be time for advocates right here to take a cue from this apply. Whereas the dominant U.S. media narrative portrays our nation because the all-knowing mannequin for different democracies and too distinctive and distinctive to derive any classes from others, the success of activists elsewhere tells a unique story. These victories clarify that it’s previous time for abortion rights advocates to look to our colleagues within the International South to assist lead us out of our harmful backslide.
And the reality is that anti-abortion actors, notably from our nation, are already sharing their concepts to limit reproductive freedom across the globe. It’s time we constructed actual solidarity throughout borders to counter these forces.
There are clearly vital variations for each neighborhood, even inside international locations, in order that there’ll hardly ever be a “one-size-fits-all” resolution that may be delivered absolutely shaped to all of us doing this work. However the concepts, inspiration, instruments, and empowerment that we will develop via cross-border cooperation will assist enormously in preserving us engaged for the prolonged and infrequently tough problem that lies forward — the problem of not simply restoring what was misplaced, however of constructing the world of our deepest aspirations by which reproductive freedom is a real actuality for everybody.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day let’s make a dedication to look past our borders, no matter these could also be, to construct a neighborhood of daring and related advocates.
Be part of Professional-Alternative North Carolina with our companions El Pueblo and Ipas for a panel dialogue commemorating IWD! The dialogue will carry collectively advocates and suppliers from North Carolina and Latin America to share our experiences and our concepts of how we will be taught from one another and the way we will work collectively to make sure reproductive freedom for all.
What: Organizing for Abortion Entry: A Cross-Border Perspective
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm
The place: On Zoom – Register right here! Spanish and English interpretation can be supplied.
At present, March eighth, is Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD), a day put aside greater than 100 years in the past for ladies world wide to advocate for our rights and liberties.
This IWD we will count on to see inspirational memes and graphics throughout social media, coming from firms, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and politicians from all political backgrounds touting ladies’s empowerment.
It’s enormously essential to see and listen to this sort of public affirmation — notably throughout a time by which some supposedly mainstream retailers, establishments, and politicians are fomenting a backlash in opposition to gender justice progress and even making an attempt to revive the archaic concept that “a girl’s place is within the house.”
We also needs to bear in mind and have fun the truth that IWD originated as a approach for ladies in numerous international locations to rally for elementary liberties — like the proper to vote, to carry public workplace, to work in secure environments, and to name for peace and for an finish to discrimination and misogyny. IWD is a day to advocate for gender justice and to construct solidarity throughout borders — one thing that may clearly take quite a lot of flowery #IWD social media posts.
In fact, one critically essential facet of gender equality is reproductive freedom. Equal entry to abortion as a part of the complete vary of maternal healthcare is a key element of making certain the proper to manage one’s physique with out authorities interference, which itself is crucial to gender equality.
And sadly, abortion rights in lots of states, together with North Carolina, have been eroding for years — a pattern that’s accelerated at a daunting tempo because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Since that call, 21 states have both banned or severely restricted abortion entry.
Fortunately, during the last decade, a number of different nations have been transferring in the wrong way by liberalizing and modernizing their abortion legal guidelines. The record contains:
- Eire repealed by common vote its restrictive abortion ban in 2018.
- Argentina’s legislature decriminalized abortion as much as 14 weeks in 2020.
- The Supreme Court docket of Mexico declared the nation’s absolute ban on abortion to be unconstitutional in 2021. This identical courtroom then dominated that abortion needs to be decriminalized on the nationwide degree in 2023.
- The Constitutional Court docket of Columbia dominated to decriminalize abortion as much as 24 weeks in 2022.
- Simply this week, France enshrined the proper to abortion within the nation’s structure.
And whereas there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward to making sure that everybody throughout the globe who wants entry to abortion can get it in a well timed and dignified method, the pattern in most international locations is towards imposing fewer restrictions on care. Certainly, america is now a world outlier and one among solely 4 international locations which have rolled again abortion entry prior to now decade, together with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.
Three of the international locations listed above (Argentina, Columbia, and Mexico) have been half of what’s often known as Latin America’s Inexperienced Wave. Abortion rights activists in these international locations, the place conservative and anti-abortion beliefs have been lengthy dominant, have spent many years advocating for change on the native governmental degree, in addition to on the private degree — organizing communities one family at a time along with offering sensible care and help for folks in search of abortion, even at nice authorized danger to themselves.
As they organized particular person communities to return collectively on state and nationwide ranges, the advocates additionally appeared to their colleagues in different international locations, together with america — to be taught what was working, the way to modify and adapt profitable campaigns to be related to their communities, what traps and pitfalls to keep away from, and the way they may collaborate to additional transfer their efforts ahead.
Now, in step with the spirit of IWD, it might be time for advocates right here to take a cue from this apply. Whereas the dominant U.S. media narrative portrays our nation because the all-knowing mannequin for different democracies and too distinctive and distinctive to derive any classes from others, the success of activists elsewhere tells a unique story. These victories clarify that it’s previous time for abortion rights advocates to look to our colleagues within the International South to assist lead us out of our harmful backslide.
And the reality is that anti-abortion actors, notably from our nation, are already sharing their concepts to limit reproductive freedom across the globe. It’s time we constructed actual solidarity throughout borders to counter these forces.
There are clearly vital variations for each neighborhood, even inside international locations, in order that there’ll hardly ever be a “one-size-fits-all” resolution that may be delivered absolutely shaped to all of us doing this work. However the concepts, inspiration, instruments, and empowerment that we will develop via cross-border cooperation will assist enormously in preserving us engaged for the prolonged and infrequently tough problem that lies forward — the problem of not simply restoring what was misplaced, however of constructing the world of our deepest aspirations by which reproductive freedom is a real actuality for everybody.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day let’s make a dedication to look past our borders, no matter these could also be, to construct a neighborhood of daring and related advocates.
Be part of Professional-Alternative North Carolina with our companions El Pueblo and Ipas for a panel dialogue commemorating IWD! The dialogue will carry collectively advocates and suppliers from North Carolina and Latin America to share our experiences and our concepts of how we will be taught from one another and the way we will work collectively to make sure reproductive freedom for all.
What: Organizing for Abortion Entry: A Cross-Border Perspective
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm
The place: On Zoom – Register right here! Spanish and English interpretation can be supplied.
At present, March eighth, is Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD), a day put aside greater than 100 years in the past for ladies world wide to advocate for our rights and liberties.
This IWD we will count on to see inspirational memes and graphics throughout social media, coming from firms, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and politicians from all political backgrounds touting ladies’s empowerment.
It’s enormously essential to see and listen to this sort of public affirmation — notably throughout a time by which some supposedly mainstream retailers, establishments, and politicians are fomenting a backlash in opposition to gender justice progress and even making an attempt to revive the archaic concept that “a girl’s place is within the house.”
We also needs to bear in mind and have fun the truth that IWD originated as a approach for ladies in numerous international locations to rally for elementary liberties — like the proper to vote, to carry public workplace, to work in secure environments, and to name for peace and for an finish to discrimination and misogyny. IWD is a day to advocate for gender justice and to construct solidarity throughout borders — one thing that may clearly take quite a lot of flowery #IWD social media posts.
In fact, one critically essential facet of gender equality is reproductive freedom. Equal entry to abortion as a part of the complete vary of maternal healthcare is a key element of making certain the proper to manage one’s physique with out authorities interference, which itself is crucial to gender equality.
And sadly, abortion rights in lots of states, together with North Carolina, have been eroding for years — a pattern that’s accelerated at a daunting tempo because the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Since that call, 21 states have both banned or severely restricted abortion entry.
Fortunately, during the last decade, a number of different nations have been transferring in the wrong way by liberalizing and modernizing their abortion legal guidelines. The record contains:
- Eire repealed by common vote its restrictive abortion ban in 2018.
- Argentina’s legislature decriminalized abortion as much as 14 weeks in 2020.
- The Supreme Court docket of Mexico declared the nation’s absolute ban on abortion to be unconstitutional in 2021. This identical courtroom then dominated that abortion needs to be decriminalized on the nationwide degree in 2023.
- The Constitutional Court docket of Columbia dominated to decriminalize abortion as much as 24 weeks in 2022.
- Simply this week, France enshrined the proper to abortion within the nation’s structure.
And whereas there’s nonetheless an extended highway forward to making sure that everybody throughout the globe who wants entry to abortion can get it in a well timed and dignified method, the pattern in most international locations is towards imposing fewer restrictions on care. Certainly, america is now a world outlier and one among solely 4 international locations which have rolled again abortion entry prior to now decade, together with El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.
Three of the international locations listed above (Argentina, Columbia, and Mexico) have been half of what’s often known as Latin America’s Inexperienced Wave. Abortion rights activists in these international locations, the place conservative and anti-abortion beliefs have been lengthy dominant, have spent many years advocating for change on the native governmental degree, in addition to on the private degree — organizing communities one family at a time along with offering sensible care and help for folks in search of abortion, even at nice authorized danger to themselves.
As they organized particular person communities to return collectively on state and nationwide ranges, the advocates additionally appeared to their colleagues in different international locations, together with america — to be taught what was working, the way to modify and adapt profitable campaigns to be related to their communities, what traps and pitfalls to keep away from, and the way they may collaborate to additional transfer their efforts ahead.
Now, in step with the spirit of IWD, it might be time for advocates right here to take a cue from this apply. Whereas the dominant U.S. media narrative portrays our nation because the all-knowing mannequin for different democracies and too distinctive and distinctive to derive any classes from others, the success of activists elsewhere tells a unique story. These victories clarify that it’s previous time for abortion rights advocates to look to our colleagues within the International South to assist lead us out of our harmful backslide.
And the reality is that anti-abortion actors, notably from our nation, are already sharing their concepts to limit reproductive freedom across the globe. It’s time we constructed actual solidarity throughout borders to counter these forces.
There are clearly vital variations for each neighborhood, even inside international locations, in order that there’ll hardly ever be a “one-size-fits-all” resolution that may be delivered absolutely shaped to all of us doing this work. However the concepts, inspiration, instruments, and empowerment that we will develop via cross-border cooperation will assist enormously in preserving us engaged for the prolonged and infrequently tough problem that lies forward — the problem of not simply restoring what was misplaced, however of constructing the world of our deepest aspirations by which reproductive freedom is a real actuality for everybody.
This Worldwide Ladies’s Day let’s make a dedication to look past our borders, no matter these could also be, to construct a neighborhood of daring and related advocates.
Be part of Professional-Alternative North Carolina with our companions El Pueblo and Ipas for a panel dialogue commemorating IWD! The dialogue will carry collectively advocates and suppliers from North Carolina and Latin America to share our experiences and our concepts of how we will be taught from one another and the way we will work collectively to make sure reproductive freedom for all.
What: Organizing for Abortion Entry: A Cross-Border Perspective
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 12:00pm-1:00pm
The place: On Zoom – Register right here! Spanish and English interpretation can be supplied.