Preliminary Agenda
(subject to change)

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DAY TWO- Wednesday 24 October 2007

08:00 - 08:50 Breakfast Breakout Sessions - Country Focus
Delegates can choose to attend one breakfast session, each lasting 50 minutes and including time for Q&A

  1. NEPAL: SCALING UP AFTER LEGAL REFORM
  2. NIGERIA: EXPERIENCES WITH ADVOCACY—FROM THE GRASSROOTS TO THE GRASSTOPS
  3. INDIA: LESSONS LEARNED
  4. URUGUAY: A RISK-REDUCTION APPROACH TO SAFE ABORTION
  5. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  6. PASKISTAN: ENRICHING THE GLOBAL DEBATE – A CASE STUDY
  7. MEXICO – AVANT GARDE ABORTION REFORM IN MEXICO CITY: HOW DID IT
    HAPPEN AND WHAT LIES AHEAD?
  8. UNITED KINGDOM: TRENDS IN THE LAW, POLICY AND PRACTICE OF ABORTION
  9. PERU AND NICARAGUA: DOCUMENTING ABUSES TO THE HUMAN RIGHT OF ABORTION
  10. Breakfast Seminar J: POLAND / EASTERN EUROPE
    Political and Cultural Challenges in Abortion Access
    Moderator: Wanda Nowicka,     President, POLISH FEDERATION FOR WOMEN AND FAMILY PLANNING, POLAND
    Daniela Draghici    , Board Member, ASTRA NETWORK and Policy Consultant, IPAS, ROMANIA 

Session 6
OPENING PLENARY
Session Chair: Sue MacGregor, Journalist and Broadcaster

Trends in Legal Reform—Are We Winning or Losing?
09.00 Barbara Hewson, Celebrated Abortion Rights and Ethics Barrister
09.15 Monica Roa, Programmes Director, Women’s Link Worldwide
09.30 Getachew Bekele, Country Director, Marie Stopes International, Ethiopia

09.20 The 1967 Abortion Act and its legacy – Domestic and International
Lord Steel of Aikwood, Architect of 1967 Abortion Act

09.45 Joanna Erdmann, Co-director of Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law, University of Toronto

10.00 QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

10.30 REFRESHMENTS AND EXHIBITION

11.00 Session 7: Parallel Keynote Sessions

International Session

Domestic Session

Session Chair:
Dr Paul Van Look, Director,
Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

11.00 – 11.15 Medical abortion: New opportunities for meeting women’s needs.
Dr Beverley Winikoff, President, GYNUITY HEALTH PROJECTS

11.15 Providers as Advocates
Dr Kamini Rao, Chair, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Women's Sexual and Reproductive Rights Committee

11.30 Scaling Up National Health Services Following Legal Reform
Dr Gloria Asare, Family Planning Coordinator, Reproductive and Child Health Department. Ghana Health Services

11.45 What Young People Want from Abortion Services
Laura Villa Torres, Associate for Youth Programming, IPAS

12.00 – 12.30
QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

11.00 Improving Choice and Increasing Access
Government spokesperson TBC

11.15 New Models for NHS Service Delivery
Speaker TBC

11.30 Northern Ireland
Goretti Horgan, Alliance for Choice

11.45 Abortion in the Media:
Panel Discussion
Chair Ann Furedi, Chief Executive, BPAS and featuring feedback from Media Survey of Abortion
Coverage by Media Monitors:
Marie O’Riordan, Editor, Marie Claire

Other Speakers TBC

QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

12.30 BUFFET LUNCH AND NETWORKING

13.50 Breakout Sessions

Delegates can choose to attend one breakout in Session 8 and one breakout
in Session 9. Each session lasts 50 minutes and includes time for Q&A.

Session 8 (13.30 - 14.20)

Session 9 (14.25 - 15.15)

  1. EXPERIENCES WITH ABORTION LAW REFORM
  2. YOUNG PEOPLE AS ADVOCATES
  3. INCREASING ACCESS TO
    COMPREHENSIVE ABORTION CARE
  4. FORTY YEARS ON: A NEW MODEL BILL FOR UK LAW REFORM
  5. EXPANDING ACCESS WITHIN THE LAW
  6. ABORTION ADVOCACY: A SPACE FOR GLOBAL SHARING
  7. WHOSE RIGHT TO LIFE? ABORTION RIGHTS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
  8. WOMEN, UNPLANNED PREGNANCY AND THREATS TO ABORTION ACCESS
  9. ADVOCACY: FROM THE GRASSROOTS TO GOVERNMENTS
  10. LEGAL AND ETHICAL BARRIERS LIMITING ABORTION ACCESS
  11. SECOND TRIMESTER ABORTION
    – BARRIERS TO ACCESS
  12. IMPROVING QUALITY AND INCREASING WOMEN’S ACCESS
    TO SERVICES
  1. CAN WE UNTIE THE GAG?
  2. CROSS-REGIONAL EXPERIENCES WITH ABORTION LAW REFORM
  3. SECOND TRIMESTER ABORTION
    —COUNTRY EXPERIENCES
  4. YOUTH—ACCESS AND BARRIERS
  5. THE MAPUTO PLAN OF ACTION:
    A FRAMEWORK FOR LEGAL, SAFE
    ABORTION IN AFRICA
  6. HOW LAW AFFECTS ACCESS TO ABORTION
  7. IRELAND
  8. STRATEGIC ADVOCACY WITH
    INSTITUTIONS
  9. PROVIDERS AS ADVOCATES
    CAMPAIGNING WORKSHOP
  10. CAMPAIGNING WORKSHOP

15.35 REFRESHMENTS

Session 10
CLOSING PLENARY
Session Chair: Sara Seims, Director of the Population Program, Hewlett Foundation

15.45 – 16.00       Advocating for Abortion as a Women’s Right
Shami Chakrabarti, Director, LIBERTY

16.00 Political Commitments: All Talk and No Action
Prof. Malcolm Potts, Population and Family Planning, University of California, Berkeley

16.15 Safe Abortion as an International Development Priority
Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

16.30 QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION

17.00  FINAL REMARKS
Dr. Bene Madunagu, Vice Chair, Ipas Board of Directors, and Co-founder and Chair,
Girls’ Power Initiative, Nigeria
Anne Quesney, Director, Abortion Rights
Dana Hovig, Chief Executive, Marie Stopes International

17:15 CLOSE OF CONFERENCE