Paper details
| Paper authors | Megan Daigle |
| In panel on | Love, sex and crisis: challenges and paths forward for sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian settings |
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Abstract
Colombians gained access to abortion in 2006 thanks to a constitutional court ruling that established broad-based exceptions to criminalisation of the procedure. Nonetheless, both the Colombian government and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) organisations have pointed to significant problems translating legal provisions into practice, especially against the fraught political environment and competing notions of gender, sexuality, and peace. This paper – based on interviews with practitioners and clinic workers, staff at relevant NGOs, and activists – will explore the intersection between access and attitudes to abortion on one hand, and post-conflict ideas about gender, pregnancy, family, the body, and peace on the other.
Colombia’s wider political and sexual context, which has seen significant backlash against efforts at gender justice, will be explored with special attention to notions of displacement (both internal and with regard to transborder migrants from Venezuela) and demobilisation of armed actors. The paper will highlight social and political attitudes, differential levels of access and acceptance, and links between SRH issues and national, transnational, and international politics.
