Joint Statement: International Solidarity with Women and Peaceful Protestors
Last week Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal issued a decision purporting to invalidate a legal ground for abortion. If this decision is given legal effect it will amount to the introduction of a near-total ban on abortion in Poland.
Thousands across Poland have protested peacefully against this unlawful and retrogressive decision. We express our deep admiration for the courageous and tireless efforts of those defending the rights of women in Poland. Women’s fundamental human rights are universal. Attacks on these rights concern everyone in society and their impact transcends national borders.
We urge the Polish Government to respect the right of freedom of assembly and peaceful protest, and to exercise restraint and refrain from excessive use of force and violence. We are deeply concerned by reports that military action is being planned to suppress peaceful protests and demonstrations. We urge the EU and the international community to monitor the situation and to act with urgency to prevent violence against peaceful protestors and attacks on women human rights defenders.
Abortion Rights, UK
Abortion Support Network
ACCEDER, Costa Rica
Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto, El Salvador
AIETI, Spain
Aids and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), South Africa
Akahatá, Argentina
Alliance for Choice, Derry, Northern Ireland
Article 19
ASPEKT, Slovakia
Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence, Turkey
ASTRA – Central and Eastern European Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Austrian Family Planning Association (OGF)
AWID
Bodrum Kadın Dayanışma Derneği, Turkey
Catholics for Choice
Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir Perú
Center for Curricular Development and Gender Studies (FILIA Center), Romania
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), USA
Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD), Uganda
Center for Reproductive Rights
Center Women and Modern World, Azerbaijan
Centre d’Action Laïque, Belgium
Centro de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos – PROMSEX, Peru
Citizen, Democracy and Accountability, Slovakia
Coalition for Gender Equality, Romania
Colectiva Costa Rica Afro
Comité de América latina y el Caribe para los Derechos de las Mujeres, CLADEM
Consorcio Latinoamericano contra el aborto inseguro (CLACAI)
Cornell Gender Justice Clinic, USA
Demokratik alevi dernekleri kadın meclisi olarak imzacıyız, Turkey
Deutscher Juristinnenbund e.V. (djb), Germany
DİSK Birleşik Metal-İş (United Metal Workers’ Union) Women's Committee, Turkey
Doctors for Choice, Malta
ECOS, Argentina
Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), Egypt
erktolia, Turkey
ESITIZ - Equality Watch Women's Group, Turkey
Estonian Sexual Health Association, Estonia
European Consortium for Emergency Contraception
European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Euroregional Center for Public Initiatives (ECPI), Romania
Family Planning and Sexual Health Association, Lithuania
Federación Planificación Familiar Estatal, Spain
FeminAmfi, Turkey
Feminist Majority Foundation, USA
Fertility Europe, Belgium
Freedom of Choice, Slovakia
Fundación Desafío, Ecuador
Fundación ESAR, Colombia
Fundación Miles, Chile
Fundación Oriéntame, Colombia
Global Justice Center
Great Lakes Initiative for Human Rights and Development (GLIHD), Rwanda
Hawai'i Institute for Human Rights, USA
Health Development Initiative (HDI), Rwanda
Health Education and Research Association (HERA), Republic of North Macedonia
Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic, City of New York School of Law, USA
Human Rights in Childbirth
Humanists UK
Ibis Reproductive Health, South Africa & USA
Iniciativas de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (ICID), Spain
International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion
International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
International Women’s Health Coalition
Ipas
Ipas, Bolivia
Irish Family Planning Association
K.K. Attorneys, Blantyre, Malawi
Kadın Zamanı Dernegi, Turkey
KAPADOKYA kadın dayanışma dernegi
Karadeniz Kadın Dayanışma Derneği, Turkey
KIKAP TRABZON Foundation, Turkey
Kırkyama Women Solidarity, Turkey
Kırmızı Biber Dernegi, Turkey
KK Attorneys, Malawi
Las Comadres, Red de acompañamiento en aborto, Ecuador
Latvian Association for Family Planning & Sexual Health
Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
Lawyers for Choice, UK
Lithuanian Women’s Lobby
Lobby Europeo de Mujeres en España (LEM España), Spain
London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign
Marie Stopes International
Marijampole Women’s Center, Lithuania
Medical Students for Choice, USA
Men Against Violence, Malta
Milhas pela Vida das Mulheres, Brazil
Moviment Graffitti, Malta
Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial, France
NARAL Pro-Choice America, USA
National Women’s Council of Ireland
National Women’s Law Center, USA
NAYA Kenya
Nebudeme ticho, Slovakia
Netherlands Helsinki Committee
Nyale Institute for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (Nyale Institute), Malawi
Nyale Institute for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, Malawi
Planned Parenthood Global
Platform for Reproductive Justice
pro familia Bundesverband, Germany
Profamilia, Colombia
Reproductive Health Network, Kenya
Reproductive Health Training Center, Republic of Moldova
Romanian Women’s Lobby
Roda - Parents in Action, Croatia
Rutgers, Netherlands
Şanlıurfa Yaşamevi Kadın Dayanışma Dernegi, Turkey
Sarajevo Open Centre, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sendas, Ecuador
Sensoa, the Flemish centre of expertise on Sexual Health, Belgium
Sex og Politikk, Norway
SEX vs The STORK Association, Romania
Sexual Health Switzerland
Sexual Rights Initiative
She Decides, Kenya
Sister Supporter, UK
Social Innovation Fund, Lithuania
Society for Education in Contraception and Sexuality, Romania
Society for Feminist Analyses AnA, Romania
Sombrilla Centroamericana. Organizaciones por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos y por la Despenalización del Aborto en Centroamérica
Stowarzyszenie na Rzecz Leczenia Niepłodności i Wspierania Adopcji Nasz Bocian, Poland
Swedish Association for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (RFSU), Sweden
Taller Salud, Puerto Rico
The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA-Europe)
The National Abortion Federation, USA
The Population Institute, USA
UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development & Reproductive Health
Union Women Center, Georgia
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
We Testify, United States
White Ribbon Alliance, USA
Woman Health and Family Planning Charity Foundation (IPPF MA), Ukraine
Women and Children First, UK
Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust (WLSA), Malawi
Women Enabled International
Women for Women’s Human Rights – New Ways, Turkey
Women Lawyers On Guard Action Network, Inc, USA
Women on Web, Canada
Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)
Women’s Link Worldwide, Spain
Women’s NGOs Cooperation Network of Latvia
Women’s Resource Center NGO, Armenia
Women’s Rights Foundation, Malta
Women’s Room – Center for Sexual Rights, Croatia
Women’s Solidarity Association of İzmir, Turkey
Women’s Coalition, Turkey
Women’s Federation of Associations, Turkey
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Youth for Youth, Romania