IWD: Prioritize Women’s Lives, Reinstate Safe Termination Guidelines- Group Tells Govt

By Titilope Joseph
On Mar 6, 2024

In commemoration of the International Women’s day, the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), a non-governmental Organization on Wednesday led over 500 women groups and communities on a Walk to demand the reinstatement of the repealed Lagos State Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancies.

WARDC and Over 500 women from various groups, communities and religious backgrounds made the demand during a peaceful walk that was held On March , 2024 in Ikeja, Lagos.

Continued: https://independent.ng/iwd-prioritize-womens-lives-reinstate-safe-termination-guidelines-group-tells-govt/

06.03.2024

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Dr Abiola Akinyode-Afolabi

International Women's Day

Lagos State Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancies

Mary George-Peluola

Olasupo Bada

Reproductive Justice initiative Foundation

The Pink Movement

Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre

Stakeholders move to lift ban on safe abortion guidelines in Lagos

By Josephine Agbonkhese
Nov 21, 2023

Civil society leaders, stakeholders and medical experts have embarked on a move to develop a roadmap for an advocacy campaign geared towards lifting the suspension on guidelines for safe termination of pregnancy in Lagos State.

This was the crux of a two-day meeting organised in Lagos by the Women Advocates Research & Documentation Centre, WARDC, with support from AmplifyChange, as part of its ongoing Project Enhance initiative aimed at ‘Enhancing Women’s Voices to Demand Accountability on Safe Abortion and Preventable Maternal Deaths in Lagos’.

Continued: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/stakeholders-move-to-lift-ban-on-safe-abortion-guidelines-in-lagos/

21.11.2023

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Amplify Change

Bose Ironsi

Child Protection Network

Dr Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi

maternal mortality

Ronke Oyelakin

Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre

Who wins the battle over Lagos abortion policy?

By CHINYERE OKOROAFOR
On Sep 19, 2022

The Lagos State abortion policy seeks to achieve safe termination of pregnancy within the ambits of the law. However, like many new policies, the initiative is mired in controversies, with opposition to it coming from many sides, including the Catholic Church. In this report, CHINYERE OKOROAFOR examines the issues.

On 28 June 2022, the Lagos State Government unveiled a 40-page policy document on safe termination of pregnancy. It was designed to reduce “preventable deaths” usually caused by unsafe abortion procedures. The policy is meant to guide medical practitioners and other stakeholders on when it is lawful or unlawful to terminate a pregnancy.

Continued: https://thenationonlineng.net/who-wins-the-battle-over-lagos-abortion-policy/

Women Groups Protest Lagos Continuous Suspension Of Safe Termination Of Pregnancy

By YEJIDE GBENGA-OGUNDARE
On Sep 7, 2022

In protest against the delay in lifting the suspension on safe termination of pregnancy in Lagos State, about 150 women groups across various rights and civil society organisations took to the streets to make their grievance known to government.

The Lagos State government had through the Ministry of Health developed a policy document on safe termination of pregnancy in a bid to guide healthcare providers within the state to provide safe and lawful abortion services within the ambit of the law.

Continued: https://tribuneonlineng.com/women-groups-protest-lagos-continuous-suspension-of-safe-termination-of-pregnancy/

07.09.2022

Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi

Lagos State Guidelines on Safe Termination of Pregnancy for Legal Indications https://tribuneonlineng.com/women-groups-protest-lagos-continuous-suspension-of-safe-termination-of-pregnancy

Marie Stopes International

Population Reference Bureau

Society for Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Nigeria (SOGON)

Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre

Nigeria: NGOs Unaware of Gag Rule Exceptions On Abortion

19 NOVEMBER 2020
By Hameed Oyegbade, Daily Trust (Abuja)

Osogbo — A 16-year-old student of Osogbo Government High in Osogbo, Osun State, Elizabeth (real name withheld) was allegedly raped by her financial accounting teacher, Gbenga Ayeni on Sunday, February 16, 2020.

She was in her school drama group, and he'd promised to connect her with popular stars so she could venture into Nollywood and become a star too.

Continued: https://allafrica.com/stories/202011190593.html

With over 2.7 million unsafe abortions, Nigeria needs to review 1861 colonial abortion law, Gynaecologist insists

August 28, 2020
By Oluwabukola Akanni

Ibadan, Aug. 27, 2019 (NAN) An Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Dr Steve Lemadoro, has appealed to the Federal Government to review the inherited colonial abortion law in the country to reduce the country’s high maternal mortality rate.

Lemadoro made the call on Thursday in Ibadan at the ongoing three-day training for journalists on “Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health”.

Continued: https://naija247news.com/2020/08/28/with-over-2-7-million-unsafe-abortions-nigeria-needs-to-review-1861-colonial-abortion-law-gynaecologist-insists/#.X0k4RnlKhPY

Nigeria – Unsafe Abortion: Abolish GGR policy, stakeholders tell Donald Trump

AUGUST 25, 2020
By Anayo Okoli

Stakeholders in the campaign for improved women’s health in Nigeria and the world at large have decried the negative impact of the Mexico City Policy, introduced by President Donald Trump in 2016, on the wellbeing of mothers and children.

Making the call in Owerri, Imo State, during a zonal training workshop organised for media practitioners by Ipas Nigeria, participants said the policy has denied millions access to family planning and other reproductive health services.

Continued: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/08/unsafe-abortion-abolish-ggr-policy-stakeholders-tell-donald-trump/

Nigeria – Abortion: Seeking exceptions to the Global Gag Rule

By The Rainbow
Aug 13, 2020

Nana, 14, wakes up petrified. It is 5:30 a.m. She was supposed to be up by 4:00 a.m., but was deep asleep and did not hear her angry aunt howling for hot water to bath with.

Though scared, she slowly and quietly walks into the kitchen, greeted her aunt, but the response was discomforting.

“Are you just waking up?'' Mrs. Alfred growled. “I am sorry,'' Nana muttered, shaking.

Continued: https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/290739/abortion-seeking-exceptions-to-the-global-gag-rule.html

Nigeria – Stakeholders call for more efforts on women’s sexual, reproductive health

By Nyisom Fiyigon Dore
July 26, 2020

Stakeholders at a Media Training for Journalists in Keffi, Nasarawa State, on Sunday called for collective efforts in promoting women’s sexual and reproductive health due to rising sexual violence in the country.

The ongoing three-day workshop on women’s sexual and reproductive health, organised by IPAS, an international NGO, is also aimed at studying the Global Gag Rule (GGR), and its implications and consequences on the health of the Nigerian woman.

Continued: https://naija247news.com/2020/07/26/stakeholders-call-for-more-efforts-on-womens-sexual-reproductive-health/#.Xx3Vf-d7lPY

26.07.2020

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Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre

Nigeria’s restrictive laws and women’s sexual reproductive rights

Nigeria’s restrictive laws and women’s sexual reproductive rights

By PER SECOND NEWS
Jan 23, 2019

Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health. They also include the right of all to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination, coercion and violence.
– The World Health Organization, WHO.

Hauwa Isah* (name changed to protect identity) was 16 when she got married to a 25-year-old man her family chose for her. Living in a rural village Ibeto, Magama Local government area of Niger state doesn’t come with a lot of prospects for anyone, much more females, she said. “Here, as a woman you are expected to grow up, get married and have babies. Anything other than that is travesty,” she said in Hausa.

Continued: https://www.newsghana.com.gh/nigerias-restrictive-laws-and-womens-sexual-reproductive-rights/