International solidarity with women in Poland

ByCristina Puig

October 2020. ECEC’s mission is to expand access to and knowledge of emergency contraception (EC) in Europe, within a broader sexual and reproductive health and rights approach. Our work does not occur in a vacuum: ensuring access to EC is just one of the many measures necessary for people to be able to exercise sexual and reproductive rights, which are human rights.

ECEC wants to express its solidarity with the people of Poland, who are seeing their reproductive rights curtailed, and adhered to the joint civil society statement on international solidarity with women and peaceful protestors in Poland, prepared by the Centre for Reproductive Rights.

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