In September 2005, the Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of Tysiac—a visually impaired Polish woman who was denied access to legal abortion on health grounds—arguing for States’ duty to ensure effective access to legal abortion by establishing appeals and review mechanisms for medical decisions about abortion, regulating the practice of conscientious objection, and […]
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 […]
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For Teen Girl in Poland, Even a Legal Abortion Is Hard to Get P (formerly referred to using the psuedo name Agata), a 14-year-old girl was legally entitled to an abortion under Polish law. But when she sought to end her unwanted pregnancy, multiple hospitals refused to perform the procedure. One even went so far […]
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 […]
Suit Follows Release of Human Rights Groups’ Study Finding Ban has Triggered Reproductive Health Crisis MANILA – Twenty Manila women and men filed a case today in a Philippine high court against the mayor of Manila, arguing that the city’s eight-year ban on contraception has severely and irreparably damaged their lives and health and the […]