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The World’s Abortion Laws Map
The Center for Reproductive Rights has launched The World Abortion Laws Map 2014, in celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action. Click here to download.
Read moreEnglish Version of Report Covering 20 Years of Anti-Abortion Law in Poland
The English version of the Federation for Women and Family Planning (Poland) report summarizing 20 years of Poland’s strict anti-abortion law is now available. It covers legal aspects and analysis of implementation of the provisions on abortion access, availability of birth control and sexuality education as well as reproductive rights and relevant cases and processes […]
Read moreOur sexual and reproductive rights are not negotiable!
As the pace of Brazilian presidential election campaign accelerates once again abortion rights are caught into the eye of the storm. Last week, the Ministry of Health suspended a recently adopted ordinance aimed at precisely identifying abortion procedures in those cases permitted by law and defining new levels of financial coverage for these procedures. Beatriz […]
Read moreBrazil: the abortion frontline
In Brazil, not surprisingly, abortion has once again flared up in the path towards the next Brazilian presidential election campaign. The presidential candidate of the PSB, Eduardo Campos, said during a Catholic mass in the Basilica of Aparecida do Norte, that he is against abortion and that Brazilian law as it is is not to be […]
Read moreInternational Statement on Women’s Right to Safe Abortion and the Post-2015 Agenda
Preliminary list of signatories and the statement in English and Spanish.
Read moreBrazil’s abortion nightmare: Why one desperate woman lied about rape
Article by Aljazeera highlights the difficult choices Brazilian women are forced to make when trying to end a pregnancy in the country with the largest Roman Catholic population in the world. Here.
Read moreIn Unprecedented Assault, Koch Brothers Aim for Anti-Choice Senate in 2014
Read Reality Check‘s article about the movement by the Koch Brother to support anti-choice organizations in the context of the mid-term congressional elections this year. Click here to read it.
Read moreConstitutional court issues decision on abortion restrictions in Bolivia
In a ruling that marks a significant step forward for women’s rights in the region, Bolivia’s highest court, the Plurinational Constitutional Court, issued a decision ending the requirement for judicial authorization for women seeking legal abortion in Bolivia. Click here to learn more.
Read moreGroups Sue Government of El Salvador Over Treatment of Beatriz, Criminalization of Abortion
Citizen Group for the Decriminalization of Abortion in El Salvador, the Feminist Collective for Local Development, CEJIL (Center for Justice and International Law) and Ipas Central America filed suit against El Salvador State on the case of Beatriz, a young woman who, despite carrying an anencephalic fetus, had to fight in justice to make the […]
Read moreAnatomy of the War on Women
Read RH Reality Check’s article “Anatomy of the War on Women: How the Koch Brothers Are Funding the Anti-Choice Agenda”, where the author criticizes that “while one sector of the American conservative establishment funds LGBT rights and marriage equality worldwide, the other sector propels a war against the right of women to decide”. Here.
Read moreEcuador’s Left punishes women rights
By Manuela L. Picq* A debate on abortion suspended the voting on the new penal code in the Ecuadorian Congress this week. Congresswoman Soledad Buendía, from President Correa’s party Alianza PAIS, made a forceful move demanding that Article 149 of the Constitution legalizes abortion in cases of rape. Her motion was supported by congresswomen María […]
Read more“Abortion education under pressure in U.S. medical schools”
Read the article “Abortion education under pressure in U.S. medical schools”, in which it highlights the battle at the state level in the United States to curtail abortion services. Click here.
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