In 2008, our 41 Member Associations in Latin America and the Caribbean provided 29, 819,125 services. We helped improve individual lives, change attitudes and reduce poverty’s grip throughout the region. We drove on rugged mountain roads to serve women living in remote villages, miles from the nearest clinic. We were in the forefront of opposition to restrictive laws repressive policies and that deprive women of their dignity and the right to determine their own reproductive destinies.  We also empowered young people through peer education programs and increased their access to appropriate sexual and reproductive health education, information and services.

This advocacy kit offers briefing cards on key issues surrounding emergency contraception (EC) within the context of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Five years remain for governments to fully implement the Programme of Action agreed at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994.  There is an urgency to analyze and evaluate its implementation throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.  The experiences and outcomes of the last 15 years represent an urgent call for attention to prioritize and intensify the efforts to accomplish the intended program goals, with an emphasis on sexual and reproductive rights.

This report analyzes the relationship between unsafe abortion, restrictive laws, and a lack of economic resources, and urges a commitment to ending the fatal effects of unsafe abortion through law reform and provision of safe abortion.

Recommendations for Improving Knowledge and Access to Emergency Contraception.