Advancing Reproductive Rights: Campaign Highlights and Key Dates
Explore the global campaign led by Grinne Teggart of Amnesty International N.I., focusing on key country projects and priorities such as abortion criminalization and rape laws reform. Learn about efforts in Northern Ireland for legislative reform, policy guidance, and human rights advocacy. Discover key dates like the campaign launch, report releases, and partnership events through 2015.
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Presentation by Grinne Teggart Campaign lead, My Body My Rights Amnesty International N.I. Grainne.teggart@amnesty.org.uk Twitter: @Gteggart & @AmnestyNI
PRIORITY COUNTRY PROJECTS The global campaign will have 5-6 country priorities for international mobilisation. El Salvador - focusing on the criminalisation of abortion as a form of violence against women and girls; Ireland - focusing on criminalization of abortion in Ireland and the negative impact on women coerced to carry on with pregnancies, with the aim of constitutional reform; Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia - focusing on reforming discriminatoryrape laws which treat rape as a crime against morality rather than against the person and strengthening the investigation and prosecution of rape and provision of services to survivors of sexual violence (including counselling and abortion); Burkina Faso - focusing on gender discrimination, which substitutes women s free choice for men s decisions by requiring a consent of family and husband to access contraception;
My Body My Rights Abortion is currently governed by s.58 - s.59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and s.25-s.26 of The Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 Amnesty s work in Northern Ireland will concentrate on these areas: 1. Legislative reform Dept of Justice, Jim Wells amendment 2. Policy - DHSSPS Termination of Pregnancy guidance. 3. Human Rights Defenders medical practitioners 4. Voices of rights holders In Northern Ireland we are, for the first time, campaigning on reproductive rights.
Key dates October: Launch 21st October, poll results, speakers. All members invited to attend December: IS briefing on abortion rights of women (including immigrant women without confirmed immigration status) in Northern Ireland Early 2015: Event UU partnership. Legislative amendments brought forward by DoJ Mar/Apr/May 2015: Ireland report launch Membership action global action and campaign
June/July 2015: UK reporting to the ICESCR, UK Progress report to CEDAW. These can be used as media and/or campaigning hooks. September 2015: Potential HRD conference in Dublin. AIUK to consider a parallel/subsequent conference in London for activists who want to campaign on Ireland/NI.
