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Website Colophon

  • Good Morning

    Good Morning

Many helped us creating and maintaining this site. Here are a few of the names with apologies to the friends we forgot to mention...

Editor in chief: Rebecca Gomperts, Women on Waves
Editorial co-ordination: Thirza Bronner
Portuguese editing: Raquel Freire, Dina Campos, Cecilia Costa
Polish editing and press archive: Mrova Ivette
Image editing: Lisa Rave, Katharina Birkenbach, Nadya Peek
Web adaptation of Polish Diary: Nadya Peek
Concept and art direction: Willem Velthoven, Mediamatic
Design and building: Katharina Birkenbach, Mediamatic
Technical support: Marc Worrell, Mediamatic

The site was designed and built in august 2004 at Mediamatic in Amsterdam and in Portugal.

  • Portugal 2004

    The Women on Waves ship Borndiep stayed in international waters, 12 miles from Figueira da Foz a small holliday town in Portugal, from August 28 till September 9, 2004. The ship was being blocked to enter Portuguese national waters by two Portuguese war ships.

  • MS Women of the Year

    Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Women on Waves received the "Women of the year 2001" award from MS. Magazine in the US for Hatching a heroic and ingenious plan to provide reproductive health services around the world.

  • Services offered by Women on Waves

    • Information about and provision of contraceptives
    • Information about and provision of emergency contraceptives
    • Pregnancy testing
    • Non-directive pregnancy counselling, aimed at making an optimal informed personal decision
    • Medical abortions if your period is 16 days too late
    • Counselling on sexually transmitted diseases