Last year, inroads marked 10 years of building, holding, and resourcing a global abortion justice community. Today, the network connects more than 2,600 abortion justice changemakers organizing across regions at the intersections of abortion stigma and systemic oppression. For us, anniversaries invite reflection, not only on growth and learning, but also on responsibility. Alongside this, […]

At the recent Global Artivism Convening, inroads co-organized the session Forging Feminist Pathways to Reproductive Justice in partnership with Everystory Sri Lanka, Bloco Ay Que Alivio, and Instituto Lamparina. A space to explore how feminist storytelling and artivism can transform research, lived experience, and collective struggle into emotional narratives that move and transform.  Moderated by […]

This year, inroads joined over 50 abortion rights advocates, activists, researchers, lawyers, and movement leaders from across the Global South at the SAIGE Convention – a two-day gathering dedicated to advancing reproductive justice and reclaiming the right to safe abortion. The convention created a powerful participatory space where diverse voices came together to reflect, learn, […]

This year, inroads brought abortion justice movements’ spaces, practices, and insights to the Global Gathering for Digital Rights — an international convening that brings together digital rights defenders from around the world for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and co-created activities focused on digital rights, online security for civil society, and the growing challenges at the intersection of […]

Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we want to reflect together on an area of gender violence that often goes unnamed: the violence that happens when laws, norms, and institutions give abusers even more power over women and pregnant people. As depicted in these illustrations… For many, this is […]

Join us for a powerful gathering of storytelling, co-creation, and collective strategy as we celebrate the release of our new community workbook to tackle abortion stigma. inroads and the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) invite you to this community space marking the launch of Our Stories, Our Power: Exploring Community Values Around Abortion – […]

Dear inroads community, 2024 asked us to weave with courage. Threads of funding thinned, right-wing forces tightened their grip, and spaces grew more hostile. Yet together, we created a tapestry of resistance and care for abortion justice around the world. We invite you to explore the journey illustrated in our 2024 report here. Excerpt from […]

March 28, 2025 marked the second annual Global Day of Action to Destigmatize Abortions, a powerful, coordinated mobilization by reproductive justice advocates around the world to transform how abortion is understood, supported, and accessed. Coordinated by inroads – the International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and Stigma, this year’s campaign built on the […]

🚀 Attending RightsCon 2025? Join us on February 27! Session: It’s that forkin’ h0rny AI again: AlgoSpeak and the evolution of how we talk about sex online For SRHR practitioners, pleasure advocates, and sexuality educators, sharing information online is an uphill battle. Platforms like TikTok and Instagram censor vital content, forcing creators to use AlgoSpeak—coded […]

In October, we held a powerful session on “Intersectionality & Reproductive Justice to Dismantle Abortion Stigma” with insights from Lilian from Women Spaces Africa, Yawar from Mano Diversa, Camila from Women Help Women, and Amanda, Maria, & Tabitha from the inroads team. Our panel explored the intersection of abortion stigma with disability justice, self-managed and […]