We call on all those working for sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ), universal access to health care, reproductive justice, broader social justice, and human rights to join us in organizing events and activities, publishing information about the situation in their countries and regions, and mobilizing collectively for May 28 – International Day of Action for Women’s Health.
Help us track and amplify global and local actions in celebration of May 28 – International Day of Action for Women’s Health by registering an upcoming event or activity you are organizing.
Ready to be involved? Here are some campaign actions you can try:
- Mobilize and Organize. Activate organizations and advocates at local, regional, and international levels to mark May 28 through diverse forms of collective action. Host community dialogues, teach-ins, forums, marches, vigils, and solidarity actions centered on women’s health, bodily autonomy, and reproductive justice. Facilitate SRHRJ workshops for youth, Indigenous peoples, and LGBTQIA+ communities, and create spaces for intergenerational exchange on lived experiences and visions of just health systems.
- Create spaces or collective reflection on what is missing in current health systems and what an equitable, people-centered system should look like, grounded in lived realities and community knowledge. Support participatory processes that translate these reflections into shared accountability tools that surface systemic gaps in policy, financing, supply chains, and service delivery, and that strengthen collective demands for health system transformation.
- Speak Out. Amplify your demands by crafting and sharing powerful messages rooted in your realities. Write open letters, manifestos, or position papers. Publish blogs, op-eds, or zines based on lived experiences. Co-create campaign materials, infographics, posters, explainer videos, and ensure accessibility by translating messages into local languages.
- Lobby and Advocate. Engage government officials and institutions to push for the protection and advancement of SRHR. Submit petitions and policy briefs. Set meetings with legislators or local health offices. Demand increased SRHR funding, an uninterrupted supply chain, reduced provider biases, support abortion decriminalization, shared abortion stories and collaboration with champions and allies in government.
- Bust the Stigma. Lead stigma-busting workshops and community dialogues that debunk harmful myths and challenge gender norms surrounding abortion, menstruation, and sexuality. Create safe spaces for support groups and peer learning circles that promote understanding, empathy, and healing. Unapologetically share abortion stories and amplify abortion storytellers as subject matter experts.
- Occupy Online Spaces. Harness digital platforms to lead online activism. Organize virtual rallies, Skeet-a-thons (Bluesky), Instagram takeovers, or TikTok challenges. Use the primary hashtags like #May28 #EssentialNotOptional #StrengthenHealthSystemsNow and supporting campaign hashtags like #WomensHealthMatters #FundHerHealth #SRHR4All. Host live discussions via streaming, and create digital content such as podcasts, reels, explainer videos to drive engagement. Launch petitions and online action hubs to mobilize supporters.
- Harness the Power of Stories. Uplift personal narratives from women, advocates, and healthcare workers. Collect stories through interviews, micro-documentaries, podcasts, or community storytelling events.
- Engage in Artivism. Use creative expression, murals, placards, performances, dance, and music, to amplify calls for SRHRJ. Organize art therapy sessions and collaborative art-making activities to provide space for healing and reflection.
- Inspire Action. Celebrate local wins, policy change, shifts in social norms, increase awareness. Share insights and strategies from past campaigns through reports, forums, and community storytelling. Use these moments to energize and guide future advocacy.
- Collaborate and build cross-movement solidarity for health and rights justice. Foster sustained solidarity and joint action across youth, labor, climate, disability, feminist, and other rights-based movements, and aligned regional and global strategies for greater collective impact. Reaffirm that rights are not granted but claimed, defended, and transformed through collective struggle rooted in community power and feminist solidarity.
- Strengthen cross-sector coordination by addressing fragmentation across reproductive health and related rights-based agendas, and promote more integrated approaches that reflect the interconnected realities of communities. This includes improving how emerging narratives, public debates, and government priorities are tracked and used to inform advocacy, while ensuring that messaging and strategic communication support coherent, rights-based linkages across different dimensions of reproductive health in ways that are clear, actionable, and can be effectively monitored.