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EPISODE · Jun 12, 2025 · 19 MIN

Ending stigma, supporting women: Reproductive justice in action

from Media24 · host Kaunda Selisho

Mangia Macuacua from Mozambique’s FDC (Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade) focuses on empowering young women in Mozambique through economic and social initiatives while championing sexual and reproductive health rights. Her focus is on ending early marriages, promoting female leadership, and addressing challenges in accessing safe abortion services. She talks to us about how Mozambique’s restrictive abortion laws allow voluntary termination up to 12 weeks and up to 16 weeks in specific cases like sexual violence—conditions that require bureaucratic proof. Advocacy efforts aim to extend these timeframes and debunk myths that stigmatize abortion.

Mangia Macuacua from Mozambique’s FDC (Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade) focuses on empowering young women in Mozambique through economic and social initiatives while championing sexual and reproductive health rights. Her focus is on ending early marriages, promoting female leadership, and addressing challenges in accessing safe abortion services. She talks to us about how Mozambique’s restrictive abortion laws allow voluntary termination up to 12 weeks and up to 16 weeks in specific cases like sexual violence—conditions that require bureaucratic proof. Advocacy efforts aim to extend these timeframes and debunk myths that stigmatize abortion.

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