About us
REDAAS is a network of health and legal professionals associated with public and community health services in Argentina. Our commitment is to accompany and assist women in situations of legal abortion, understanding it as part of our professional, ethical and legal duty. Our goal is to promote the implementation of Law 27.610 on Access to Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy and promote access to legal abortions, to help eliminate institutional and political barriers to access safe and legal abortions and build a community to share information, exchange experiences and offer a space of solidarity, encouragement and political support.
The creation of this network started in 2011 as an initiative of the Health, Economy and Society Area of CEDES - Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad - and was institutionalized under the name of REDAAS in 2014, in a joint construction with ELA - Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género.
Since the beginning, REDAAS has counted with the collaboration of many people, and national and international organizations such as: Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM), Amnesty International Argentina (AIA), Asociación de los Derechos Civiles (ADC), Consorcio Latinoamericano Contra el Aborto Inseguro (CLACAI), National Abortion Federation (NAF), Safe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF), International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), IPAS and Fòs Feminista.
In present day, REDAAS has more than 600 members from 14 different professions distributed in 20 provinces of Argentina.
Advocacy Committee
- Carolina Comaleras
- Damian Levy
- Daniel Teppaz
- Gabriela Luchetti
- Gustavo Chavez
- José Luis De Iriondo
- Mara Martínez Monteagudo
- Ruth Zurbriggen
- Sandra Formia
- Susana Aminchardi
- Viviana Mazur
- Sonia Ariza Navarrete
Directors
- Silvina Ramos Area of Health, Economy and Society - Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES)
- Natalia Gherardi Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género (ELA)
- Mariana Romero Health, Economy and Society Area - Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES)
- Agustina Ramón Michel Health, Economy and Society Area - Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES)
- General coordinationCecilia López Caradzoglu (REDAAS)
National council
- Edgardo Ábalos (Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales, CREP)
- Mariela Belski (Amnesty International – Argentina)
- Paola Bergallo (CONICET – UTDT)
- Mabel Bianco (FEIM)
- Diana Maffía (Observatorio de Género del Consejo de la Magistratura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires)
- Nadia Mamani (Colectiva Feminista La Revuelta y de Socorristas en Red)
- Enrique Mesa (Dr. Roque Sáenz Peña Hospital)
- Felicitas Rossi (Independent consultant)
International council
- Ximena Casas (Human Rights Watch)
- Susana Chavez (CLACAI)
- Ilana Dzuba Independent consultant
- Laura Gil Grupo médico por el derecho a decidir Colombia
- Ana Cristina González Vélez Mesa por la Vida
- Daniel Grossman University of California San Francisco
- Karen Padilla (IPAS)
- Alicia Yamin (Harvard, GHELI)
- Susan Yanow (Women help women)
- Regina Tames (Human Rights Watch)
How to be part of REDAAS
Would you like to be part of REDAAS? Please send a mail to info@redaas.org.ar with your full name, profession, institution and country of residence. Furthermore, please elaborate a small text describing why you would like to be part of REDAAS.