Shadow Letter: Bangladesh_Committee on the Rights of the Child_2003_English
Shadow Letter: Bangladesh_Committee on the Rights of the Child_2003_English https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sl_Bangladesh_2003.pdf
Shadow Letter: Bangladesh_Committee on the Rights of the Child_2003_English https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sl_Bangladesh_2003.pdf
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WA_Map_2007.jpg Currently, over 60% of the world’s people live in countries where induced abortion is permitted either for a wide range of reasons or without restriction as to reason. In contrast, about 26% of all people reside in countries where abortion is generally prohibited.The table below illustrates the varying degrees to which countries worldwide permit […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/indian_article.jpg Salenta Singh suffered a debilitating injury after she went to a public hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India to give birth—and was left alone while in labor. She gave birth to her first five children at home in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh without any complications. But when, in February 2007, she went to […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2014-07-23-at-2.55.28-PM.png This report, produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Forum for Women, Law and Development, documents human rights abuses arising from Nepal’s abortion law. The report examines violations of women’s rights relating to the abortion ban, as well as violations that occur in the enforcement of the law. Based on interviews with […]
A public health activist in India has taken the state of Madhya Pradesh to court over the staggering number of women in the state who die during pregnancy and childbirth. The public interest lawsuit was brought in July 2008 by Sandesh Bansal, the coordinator of Jan Adhikar Manch, a network of local health NGOs. The […]
I. Nepal’s existing abortion law, in permitting abortion during the first trimester without restriction as to reason or need for spousal consent, respects women’s basic human rights and should be reaffirmed.The current law on abortion as provided in the Eleventh Amendment of the Muluki Ain respects rights and principles recognized by the Nepalese Supreme Court […]
On August 4, Nepal’s Supreme Court dismissed a case that had aimed to overturn the country’s abortion law, which allows abortion upon request up to 12 weeks. The law was challenged by attorney Achyut Kharel in 2005 on the grounds that it discriminates against men, as it allows a woman to terminate a pregnancy without […]
An International Human Right: Sexuality Education for Adolescents in Schools https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WEB_pub_fac_sexed_10.10.pdf
The Philippines Court of Appeals has dismissed a constitutional challenge to an eight-year-old ban on the distribution and use of modern contraceptives in the city of Manila. The case, Osil v. Office of the Mayor of the City of Manila, argues that this ideologically driven policy amounts to a violation of the fundamental human rights […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights congratulates Sapana Malla, a leading Nepali women’s rights advocate, for being named to the Constituent Assembly of Nepal, the body charged with drafting the country’s new constitution. In January 2007, Nepal adopted an interim constitution, to remain in place while steps were taken to create a Constituent Assembly that would […]