About International Safe Abortion Day

International Safe Abortion Day is marked every year on 28 September by advocates, governments, UN institutions and movements around the world. It is a global call to action for access to timely, affordable, and quality abortion care. It also highlights the harms caused by restrictive abortion laws and barriers to care, while urging decision makers to protect and advance reproductive rights as human rights.

To commemorate International Safe Abortion Day this year, the Center for Reproductive Rights Europe worked with 60 organizations and multiple municipal governments to lead a coordinated demonstration in support of abortion rights. Across Europe, landmarks and buildings lit up green at dusk on 28 September, proudly displaying the color of the international abortion rights movement. This was an important moment of solidarity, unity, and joy in support of abortion as a human right.

Check out the illuminations below.

Illuminations

Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona City Hall

Bratislava, Slovakia

UFO Observation Tower

Brussels, Belgium

Hôtel de Ville

Brussels, Belgium

La Monnaie / De Munt 

Dublin, Ireland

Mansion House

Dublin, Ireland

Trinity College Dublin

Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Geneva, Switzerland

Jet d’Eau

Paris, France

Colonne de Juillet

Pula, Croatia

Šijana Roundabout 

Zagreb, Croatia

Zagreb Fountains

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