Events > Asia Safe abortion Partnership will be holding its second workshop on Abortion Advocacy in Hanoi, Vietnam. :: Asia Safe Abortion Partnership

Workshop Information:

This is a 5 day workshop “Abortion Advocacy and HeRWAI ( Human Rights for Women Assessment Instrument Training) ”. This will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 25th -29th July 2010.

These are two modules planned for the workshop:

•	HeRWAI tool
	The Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI), developed by the Humanist Committee on Human Rights (HOM), is a human-rights based tool to analyze the impact of a policy on women’s health rights. It helps to compare what actually happens with what should happen according to the human rights obligations of a country. The outcome of this analysis is the basis for a campaign strategy.

Purpose : Strengthen the capacity of organizations by providing information and tools to assist them in their advocacy and/or campaign work to promote innovative policy changes that address local realities and RSHR needs so as to achieve the MDGs in a RSHR-sensitive manner.

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Advocacy Modules

These modules will include

•	International law and developments
•	Jurisprudence that can be used to shape new laws
•	Strategies for networking
•	Lobbying with UN/International Human Rights bodies
•	Development of appropriate tools for Advocacy

Purpose and Goals: The purpose of the training is to provide a safe space to discuss abortion work and share experiences and effective strategies across regions and contexts. More specifically the goals are to:

•	Look at the pros and cons of various frameworks for abortion rights e.g. human rights; reproductive justice; public health.
•	Find the best practices for linking abortion rights to other social justice and human rights campaigns.
•	Investigate ways to improve access despite the law.
•	Develop focused abortion related policy analysis and advocacy skills
•	Develop strategies for cross regional and international support and collaboration in advocacy efforts, including aimed at international bodies such as the United Nations, the European Court etc.
•	Share strategies for addressing the stigma and marginalization of abortion, both at the societal level and for the individual woman.
•	Share experiences and strategies about how to confront religious fundamentalists.
•	Create a cadre of trained individuals who could be mentors/ facilitators for advocates.

Further information on the content of both trainings can sent on request.

The dead line for application is 22nd May 2010

Participants would be expected to join for both components of the workshop.
Self funded participants are welcome.