TAG: abortion rights
Brazil is accused at the UN of violations of the right to legal abortion
Civil society organisations have appealed to the United Nations, asking international bodies to put pressure on the Brazilian authorities to comply with the laws that guarantee the right to abortion in specific cases. In a statement on Friday, the organisations Conectas, Feminist Collective Sexuality & Health (Coletivo Feminista Sexualidade e Saúde), Anis, Catholics for the Right to Decide (Católicas pelo Direito de Decidir), Medical Network for the Right to Decide (Rede Médica pelo Direito de Decidir), Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW/ABIA), Not Arrested Nor Dead (Nem Presa Nem Morta), Cladem Brasil and Ipas showed “concern about the violations of the right to legal abortion in Brazil”.
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Jamil Chade: Letter to an 11-year-old girl
By Jamil Chade Dear young girl, While your story was the subject of a dramatic debate in Brazil, I tell you that in a room here at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, men in suits – and a few women – were negotiating the text of a resolution on your destiny. […]
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Conference Report | 3rd Abortion & Reproductive Justice Conference
3rd Abortion & Reproductive Justice Conference: The Unfinished Revolution | Decriminalisation of Abortion, Medical Abortion and Advocacy for Change At Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 9-12 July 2018 Read the full report Produced by Marge Berer with Christina Boateng and Pauline Diaz This is an informal report of a set of three workshops, facilitated […]
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Honduras discriminates against women and LGBTI as part of a transnational religious effort
On 14 November 2018, the Human Rights Council Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice issued a statement sharing the preliminary findings of the Independent Experts official visit to the country. In their conclusion, they found that, although Honduras has ratified several Human and Women’s Rights treaties, the country […]
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