In the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean (Ipas LAC) warns that child pregnancy continues to be an extreme form of gender-based and sexual violence that affects thousands of minors every year, and we must continue to fight to eradicate it.
The study identifies networks of influence between Spanish actors such as Vox, CitizenGO and Opus Dei, and conservative sectors in countries such as Argentina, Chile, El Salvador and Guatemala. A new international report warns of the growing articulation between the...
Mexico City, September 28, 2025 - On the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean (Ipas LAC), in collaboration with artist and activist Cerrucha, held the public intervention "My Body, My Life, My Decision," an...
The signatory organizations rejected any form of criminalization of abortion providers, those accompanying them or medical personnel. Abandoning the use of criminal law is fundamental to guarantee full and safe access to this health service. September 28, 2025, CDMX....
As part of the 28S, Ipas LAC launches the digital fundraising campaign “Transform the world”.
As part of the 28S, Ipas LAC launches the digital fundraising campaign “Transform the world” to promote collective actions to ensure the right to decide and access to legal and safe abortion in the region.
Mexico City, August 19, 2025. The Member States of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) closed the XVI Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean with the adoption of the Tlatelolco Commitment, an unprecedented...
This is the first time that an international court has ruled on the right to care, recognizing that all people have the right to care, receive care and exercise self-care. In Latin America and the Caribbean, women spend three times more time on unpaid caregiving tasks...
Under the slogan “Today and always, together forward,” on International Women’s Day, Ipas Latin America and the Caribbean (Ipas LAC) once again speaks out in favor of safe abortion, because when women and people with the capacity to bear children are denied the possibility of choosing over their own bodies, they are also denied their human rights; because when we talk about rights, we are talking about real lives.
In 2022, Colombia became the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to allow abortion up to 24 weeks and to recognize it as a right linked to the autonomy of women and persons with gestational capacity. In the first year of the ruling alone, the lives and health of 49,000 women and other persons with gestational capacity were protected, according to Profamilia figures.
January 20, 2025. As an organization that promotes social justice, we believe in democracy, human rights and access to unbiased information about sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion, as well as the right to live free from bigotry, racism and misogyny. For this reason, as of today, Monday, January 20, 2025, we will no longer participate in X (formerly Twitter).
El Salvador, December 20, 2024. “I just want to live,” Beatriz said 11 years ago. Beatriz was a young mother of a small child, sick with lupus and living in poverty. In 2013 she faced a second high-risk pregnancy, in which the fetus was diagnosed as having anencephaly, meaning it had not developed a brain, a condition incompatible with life outside the womb.
Today, November 25, 2024, as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the green tide advances in our country by decriminalizing abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation in the State of Mexico.
Stigma and criminalization of abortion are factors that can have an emotional impact on those who decide to terminate their pregnancies. When abortion is performed under safe, legal conditions, with complete information and based on scientific evidence, and with the...
Did you know that there is actually no evidence that induced abortion affects your mental health? On the contrary, stigma, social prejudice and lack of access to abortion have been found to be factors that can trigger emotional distress in some people who terminate...
Safe abortion allows women and others who have the capacity to bear children to make choices about their lives and their future. When a decision has been made to opt for a termination of pregnancy, quality services and reliable, scientifically backed information must...
In the context of September 28th, Global Day of Action for Safe and Free Abortion, Latin America presents a diverse framework in the advance towards the defense of the right to decide. We observe in Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Uruguay more progressive laws that facilitate access to abortion and reflect the commitment to reproductive rights; as well as important initiatives in Chile and Ecuador, which seek the eradication of abortion from their penal codes. On a par with countries such as El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, which maintain a position that criminalizes abortion in all circumstances.
- Motherhood, nurturing and care, historically, have been attributed to women and feminized identities, who have been assigned family welfare and domestic work without economic remuneration. - In the region, only 14 countries guarantee the minimum number of weeks of...
International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Coalition (ISRRC) On the adoption of the Political Declaration by the Commission on Population and Development The International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Coalition (ISRRC) celebrates the 30th anniversary of the...
On the adoption of the Political Declaration by the Commission on Population and Development The International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Coalition (ISRRC) celebrates the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development and the...
