Grantee name: Ipas

Mission: Ipas is an international organization that works around the world to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights, and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries. They believe that women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility.

Ipas works globally to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce abortion-related deaths and injuries. They seek to expand the availability, quality and sustainability of abortion and related reproductive health services, as well as to improve the enabling environment. Ipas believes that no woman should have to risk her life or health because she lacks safe reproductive health choices.

Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Website: www.ipas.org

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/IpasOrg

Channel Grants: Channel made grants to continue supporting a public education and media and communications campaign by Ipas concerning the defense of women’s reproductive and sexual health and rights in Nicaragua and expanded its support to El Salvador. (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) Channel expanded its support to El Salvador in 2011.

Channel made a grant to support the work in which Ipas is engaged in Nicaragua disseminating accurate information on reproductive health and rights. (2007)

Photo courtesy of Ipas, Managua office staff.

News: Amnesty International released a report "The Total Abortion Ban in Nicaragua: Women's Lives and Health Endangered, Medical Professionals Criminalized" July 27, 2009. If you wish to read the report, please click here.

Human Rights Watch released a report "Over Their Dead Bodies: Denial of Access to Emergency Obstetric Care and Therapeutic Abortion in Nicaragua" in October 2007. If you wish to read the report, please click here.

Ipas helped develop a television spot where Central American celebrities Kathia Cardenal, Moises Gadea, Clara Grum, Elsa Basil, and Augusto Mejia describe why they support therapeutic abortion.  (Please follow this link to view the spot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI4H-RtZD64&feature=channel).

 

 

Watch two public service announcements from the campaign (in Spanish)