This report distils the collective intelligence generated at the SAIGE Convention 2025–Reclaiming the Right to Safe Abortion: Reproductive Justice for All– where advocates, providers, researchers, lawyers, movement leaders and youth from across the Global South convened to exchange lessons, map barriers, and co-create strategies for advancing safe abortion within a reproductive justice frame. The proceedings combined plenaries, panels, participatory group work, and scenario-based strategy labs, producing both context-specific insights and cross-cutting approaches that can travel across settings.
Across country reflections participants underscored that progress hinges on narrative change, alliance-building, and health-system strengthening carried out alongside legal and policy work. The Convention deliberately centred plural voices from youth leaders, indigenous advocates, LGBTQ+ people, persons with
disabilities, service providers, and SRHR advocates – so that strategies are grounded in lived realities as well as political analysis.
A practical decision framework emerged for responding to opposition: Observe, then engage, then push back. Observing is useful when risk or intent is unclear; engage where dialogue can unlock access or shift narratives (including with institutional gatekeepers); and pushback rapidly where rights and safety are at stake or when misinformation is propagated by authority figures. This ladder helps calibrate speed, safety, and leverage, and guided responses across religion, media, education, health, and justice spheres.