Caroline Hickson

Former Regional Director at Int Planned Parenthood Europe (IPPF). Irish. Tweeting mainly about sexual and reproductive health and rights. Own thoughts.

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

@BeauvaisAirport @Ryanair huge shout out and enorme merci to wonderful lady on Gate C for Milan flight this am. She got the car keys i mistakenly took with me back to my husband who was stranded. Customer service award merited 😀🙏

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

Friends in Dublin - a great new play by a great new young playwright, just been in Edinburgh fringe and coming to Dublin 2 - 4 Sept. Ciúnas - Smock Alley Theatre 1662 https://t.co/jfYJlB2tA5 via @smockalley

[ILGA-Europe @ILGAEurope]

In our new #IEfrontline #podcast, with guests @MarionBoeker. @TanjavKnorring & @HicksonHick. we explore how inclusionary women’s rights organisations are responding to the efforts of exclusionary actors to narrow the frame for #feminism https://t.co/IP2g9tojv0

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

@Eurostar just checking if I have a Eurostar ticket starting in Brussels going to London, and the same train stops in Lille, I can get on in Lille instead with the same ticket?

[Voice for Choice @V4CMalta]

‼️ A pregnant woman is currently at risk of dying in a hospital in #Malta ‼️

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

This is happening NOW. #Malta puts ideology ahead of saving a woman’s life. Get her out of this situation, please no more #Savita, #Izabela, #Valentina ‘s dying in EU hospitals . Inconceivable, unacceptable https://t.co/Ow9nxeQMSZ

[IPPF Global @ippf]

“If you have a painful period, you should be as entitled to medical leave as any other illness. It’s about the normalization of something so simple, so basic – that for years has been such a source of shame and stigma.” – @HicksonHick of @ippfen 🙌
https://t.co/98AjAnatlK

[IPPF European Network @ippfen]

"Regression on women's rights, and particularly on their reproductive rights, actually goes hand in hand with regression on the #RuleOfLaw and democracy" says @HicksonHick for @SonyaDiehn via @dwnews.

🗞️ https://t.co/qW7RNH0Ysh

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

No more beautiful mornings in #Oklahoma for women forced through full pregnancies against their consent. #ReproductiveCoercion

[Planned Parenthood Action @PPact]

BREAKING: The Oklahoma legislature just passed a total ban on abortion, enforced by private citizens.
This ban will take effect as soon as the governor signs the bill, making Oklahoma the first state to outlaw abortion entirely — even while Roe v. Wade still stands.

[Lauren Johnson @LaurrenJohnson]

It's been two weeks since the #RoeVWade draft was leaked.

In my new article for @voicemaguk, I spoke with experts and activists about how overturning the case could not only implicate the US but countries across the world as well.

Read the story here: https://t.co/K9vGmcjxfy

[IPPF Global @ippf]

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Today is #IDAHOBIT2022 – but we're proudly committed to fighting for and celebrating people in all their diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions every day ✊ Are you with us?

[Daniel Freund @daniel_freund]

‼️This is absolutely scandalous. EU-Commission putting rule of law mechanism on ice.

Attacks on democracy and the rule of law by Orban and PiS governments DID NOT STOP the day Russia invaded Ukraine. They are going on EVERY DAY. /1

[Edel Ni Laocha @edel_leahy]

https://t.co/GJ59ZR3pUg

[Tatev Hovhannisyan @tahovhannisyan]

Europeans can't live in the 19th century!!!
Check out my piece on the first in-depth analysis of #abortion policies across #Europe 👇
@HicksonHick @EPF_SRR @ippfen @SophieintVeld #InternationalSafeAbortionDay #28Sept @5050oD
https://t.co/WGUgVkE2HN

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

My own country, #Ireland could certainly do better. Women are still travelling who have not been able meet the twelve weeks limit, often in tragic circumstances just like before the referendum. On this map there is no excuse for us not to appear in our customary green! @IrishFPA

[IPPF European Network @ippfen]

❗️ We mark the #InternationalSafeAbortionDay by reminding everyone that women and girls in Europe are still forced to continue pregnancies against their will.

Together with @EPF_SRR we scored 52 European countries based on access to abortion care: https://t.co/25x97fKfqb

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

Stunned to hear fm Dr Elizabeth Canitano that religiously affiliated medics in Italy prefer to give a woman a hysterectomy than an IUD. As someone whose hysterectomy went wrong, with even my kidney threatened at one point, can't tell u how furious that makes me @vitadidonna

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

That’s my niece taking notes at the UNSC. Go girl!

[Ireland at UN @IrishMissionUN]

At every #SecurityCouncil meeting, many important jobs happen away from the horseshoe table & 🎥 glare

Our humanitarian adviser Alex & Middle East adviser Benita pictured here take notes to report to @dfatirl HQ & analyze Friday’s Yemen meeting

#BehindtheScenes

#IrelandUNSC 🇮🇪

[FEPS @FEPS_Europe]

For a sneak peek into the discussions, find the visualisation of some of the most important points to be integrated into concrete actions following the GEF👇

[IPPF Global @ippf]

🇭🇷🌈 Promising news from Croatia: A court has reportedly ruled that same-sex partners can now adopt children, backing a gay couple in their five-year fight for the right to family life. More → https://t.co/WC1GVdBPHJ

[Caroline Hickson @HicksonHick]

Great to have MSD for Mother’s as a partner. With Covid now more than ever we need multi stakeholder approaches to supporting adolescent and maternal health