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Leo Varadkar vows legal terminations by end of year after huge vote for change. Ireland to start abortion law reform after historic vote.
History is made as Ireland votes to repeal anti-abortion laws – video report Ireland has voted by a landslide to legalise abortion in a stunning outcome (…)
Luke Butterly reports on the work of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities for Reproductive Justice (MERJ) in organising around the upcoming Irish abortion referendum.
"A lot of people have heard internationally about the 8th Amendment, but don’t know the issues of our communities,” says Emily (…)
On 24 March 2018, over 5000 people from all over Croatia assembled in the capital city of Zagreb to march against Croatia’s forthcoming ratification of the Istanbul Convention. As the world’s first binding treaty to address violence against women, this Council of Europe document has generally (…)
Socialist Democracy urges all socialists and democrats who have a vote to cast that vote for repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution - an amendment that has embodied the merciless ideology of the Catholic Church, empowered by the grip of the Irish state, to deny the democratic (…)
Seven days from now, on May 25th, Ireland will be voting on whether to repeal the part of their constitution that denies women control over their bodies, writes Susan Moore. This means that 3,265 pregnant people travel from Ireland to Britain every year for safe abortions.
Unlike the Equal (…)
On October 3, 2016, cities across Poland were seized by massive demonstrations against new proposals for a total abortion ban in the country. These proposals, first drafted by the Ordo Iuris Institute, a reactionary Catholic foundation, were designed to deny all access to abortion, with no (…)
On 25 May, the long-awaited and campaigned-for referendum on changing Ireland’s very restrictive abortion law – encapsulated in the 8th amendment to the constution – will finally be held. The very broad-based Trade Union Campaign to Repeal the 8th launched a tabloid campaign newspaper on 1 May.. (…)
A pro-choice rally demands repeal of the Eighth Amendment that bans abortions.
Campaigning for a woman right’s to choose in Ireland has stepped up since the announcement of the date and wording of a referendum on changing the constitution to allow abortion.
The referendum, to be held on May (…)
The new proposal would criminalise abortion in cases where the foetus carries a congenital weaknesss. Mass protests in 2016 prevented a total ban on abortion. The government is now trying a more gradual approach. Poland’s abortion law is already one of the most restrictive in Europe
Thousands (…)
On an International Women’s Day (IWD) in which demonstrations took place in an unprecedented 177 countries, the Spanish state stood out as the place where the mobilisation for women’s equality was biggest — at least five million, the greatest mobilisation for women’s rights in history. Why? (…)
The fact that this March 8th was going to surpass all our expectations was clear when we looked back on the weeks that preceded it. No one, however, seemed capable of anticipating the scale of the mobilization that we finally witnessed. Fortunately, the wave swept over us all.
Beginning on (…)
This week millions of women will take to the streets around the world with the same goal: to end patriarchy. Millions of women with the same color, purple. If we coordinate and organize, the 8M will be a springboard from which to jump with more force. Radical, supportive, rebellious, diverse, (…)
Every year, thousands of women come from Ireland to England for abortions – illegal at home, and punishable in Northern Ireland by life imprisonment. These are their stories
By 10.30am, 10 minutes before her first appointment, Catriona is already grey-faced with exhaustion and so tired that (…)
The Italian feminist movement Non una di meno (not one less) ] issued the following call for a national demonstration on 25 November, the International Day Against Violence Against Women.
We are the tide that flooded the streets of Rome on the last 26th of November. We are the ones that on (…)
What is it that has happened to open up the huge debate across the media and beyond about sexism? Why has it happened now? It’s been going on for ever yet suddenly everyone is talking and writing about it. From Hollywood to the British parliament, from the popular press to left wing blogs, (…)
In October 1983 an abortion ban entered the Irish Constitution - the infamous 8th Amendment was born.[[“What is the Eighth Amendment?
Article 40.3.3, known as the Eighth Amendment, was voted into the Irish Constitution by referendum in 1983. The amendment states:
‘The state acknowledges (…)
European Appeal: Abortion, women decide !
For the right to abortion throughout Europe
To sign : avortement-libre-en-europe rezisti.org
Mobilisations throughout Europe around September 28, 2017
Your delegations are expected in Brussels on 28 September 2017
In solidarity with all (…)
The death of prominent French politician of the conservative right, Simone Veil, who nevertheless as Health Minister was responsible for introducing the legislation which legalized abortion in France in 1975, was an occasion to look back on the struggle for abortion rights in France and the (…)
This extraordinary election has seen one horrible irony for women traded for another. At the start of the campaign, when Theresa May looked to turn her high personal ratings (lol) into an even higher Conservative majority (lololol), it seemed that the UK’s second female prime minister was going (…)
The neglect of women’s rights in Northern Ireland is a scar on the United Kingdom’s conscience.
In April, a young woman from Belfast was prosecuted under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 because, at the age of 19, she was unable to raise the funds she needed to travel to England for a (…)
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