New Litigation Filed to Decriminalize Abortion in Nepal
Petition at the Supreme Court of Nepal seeks to hold government accountable for its commitments to abortion rights and access.
Petition at the Supreme Court of Nepal seeks to hold government accountable for its commitments to abortion rights and access.
In a landmark decision issued on May 20, 2009, Nepal’s Supreme Court directed the government – specifically the Office of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, the Ministry of Health and Population, the Ministry of Law, Justice, and Constituent Assembly Affairs, and the Ministry of Women, Children, and Social Welfare – to enact a comprehensive […]
Respecting, protecting, and fulfilling women’s access to reproductive rights is essential to achieving a healthy, equitable, and developed Philippines. The International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action, adopted by the Philippines in 1994, recognized that reproductive rights are a central part of ensuring a country’s development. This recognition was reaffirmed in the recent […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ensuring-Reproductive-Rights-India-0218.jpg In May 2017, the Supreme Court of India denied a medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) to Z., a 35-year old woman from Patna, Bihar living with HIV who became pregnant as a result of rape. Z. was homeless and discovered that she was 17 weeks pregnant and HIV positive when she was admitted into […]
The Philippines criminalizes abortion without any clear exception. Despite the criminal abortion ban, women and girls continue to undergo abortions which are often performed under unsafe conditions and result in complications that require immediate medical treatment. In this fact sheet, the Center for Reproductive Rights outlines the status of abortion in the Philippines and its […]
Nepalese Migrant Worker Free After Wrongful Imprisonment in Malaysia Nirmala Thape has been set free following a yearlong ordeal during which she was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned after having an abortion in Malaysia. The 24-year-old migrant worker from Nepal had been arrested in the clinic where she had an abortion last October. According to an […]
Retrial Begins for Nepalese Migrant Worker Wrongfully Accused of Obtaining Illegal Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) The retrial of Nirmala Thapa, a 24-year old Nepalese migrant worker who was arrested alongside her doctor in a clinic raid and found guilty of obtaining an illegal abortion, starts today in the Penang High Court in Malaysia. High Court Judicial […]
The Asia program’s new fact sheet features a groundbreaking reproductive rights case, NAMHHR v. Chhattisgarh, which was filed before the High Court of Chhattisgarh in June 2014 by the National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights, with legal representation provided by Advocate Anubha Rastogi. The case claims that the state of Chhattisgarh has failed […]
Indian High Court Orders Chhattisgarh Government to Address Allegations of Denying Women Access to Abortion Services (PRESS RELEASE) –The Chhattisgarh Government was ordered by judges to immediately address allegations that women in the state lack sufficient access to safe abortion services. Justices Navin Sinha and Rangnath Chandrakar of the High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/asia-nepal-fact-sheet.JPG The Asia program’s new fact sheet features a groundbreaking reproductive rights case, Manju &, Others v. Government of Nepal, which was filed in the Supreme Court of Nepal in September 2013, by Justice for All. The case highlights the high risk of unintended pregnancy in Nepal due to the unmet need for modern contraceptives, […]