SAAF welcomes our new board member


We welcome Marevic Parcon to the SAAF board. Marevic, known as Bing, is the Executive Director of the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) ([link removed]) , which is also a current SAAF grantee partner.

Bing brings with her decades of experience of grassroots activism, including helping to set up abortion advocacy networks in eight countries, including her own, the Philippines.

Find out more about SAAF board members ([link removed])

How does abortion relate to pleasure?


SAAF is now a proud endorser of The Pleasure Principles , coordinated by The Pleasure Project. As part of our commitment to working with a sex-positive and pleasure-focused lens, we published this blogpost about sex, pleasure and abortion ([link removed]) on our website.

Check it out in English ([link removed]) , French ([link removed]) and Spanish ([link removed]) and let us know your thoughts.


News and updates

* Indonesia recently ratified a new Criminal Code which penalises those 'promoting' contraception, and criminalises all sex outside of marriage. It does however, slightly expand legal access to abortion in specific circumstances. Read more ([link removed]) from SAAF grantee partner Jakarta Feminist ([link removed]) .
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In Mexico, SAAF grantee partner Las Libres ([link removed]) has been part of a feminist network supporting access to safe medical abortion in the US following the overturning of Roe vs Wade and their work was recently featured in The Washington Post ([link removed]) .
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SAAF grantee partner Tamtang Group ([link removed]) has been part of a successful advocacy movement to expand access to safe abortion in Thailand. They are quoted in this piece ([link removed]) explaining the barriers which still remain despite liberalisation of the law.
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* Good news from Sierra Leone where a new law has been passed to further gender equality ([link removed]) in the country, including the expansion of maternity leave. Congratulations to SAAF grantee partner WHRRO ([link removed]) and other campaigners whose work led to this victory.

SAAF grantee partner spotlight: CIVISCE

Clear Vision for Change works to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and young people in Tanzania. They are based in Kigoma in the North-West of the country.

CIVISCE started their SAAF-funded work in October this year and will be working to prevent unsafe abortions in the Nyarugusu camp, the largest refugee camp in Tanzania and second largest in the world.

SAAF staff members were able to visit the small team at the end of November and to see the progress being made to equip partner organisations working in the camp to provide accurate, practical information and support on reproductive health.
Find out more about CIVISCE ([link removed])

SAAF is hosted by IPPF. If you wish to report anything which concerns you about our work, or the work of our grantee partners (such as abuse, fraud, malpractice) please consider using the confidential external incident reporting service IPPF SafeReport ([link removed]) .

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