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Media Highlights: Challenging Honduras’s Abortion Ban in Fausia’s Case
News and media highlights on the case.
News and media highlights on the case.
After becoming pregnant as a result of rape, an indigenous woman and human rights defender was denied emergency contraception and abortion care and was forced to give birth against her will.
Tegucigalpa, abril 10 de 2024. (Comunicado de prensa) – Por primera vez en la historia, Honduras es llevado ante la ONU por la prohibición absoluta del aborto. El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y el Centro de Derechos de Mujeres presentaron el caso de Fausia ante el Comité de Derechos Humanos de la Organización de Naciones […]
Tegucigalpa, April 10, 2024. (Press release) – For the first time in history, Honduras is brought before the UN for its absolute ban on abortion. The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Centro de Derechos de la Mujer (CDM) presented Fausia’s case to the UN Human Rights Committee with the aim of seeking justice on […]
Watch online this March 12 event being held at UN Headquarters during the 68th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
The Center for Reproductive Rights engages with European multilateral bodies and policy makers to advance respect and protection for sexual and reproductive health and rights. We work to ensure that European Union institutions address shortcomings and deficits with regard to SRHR across the EU, as well as in countries around the world. We advocate for […]
Watch the replay of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing with testimony by the Center and its partners on rights violations resulting from the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights holds first hearing on U.S. abortion access since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
Watch the November 8 livestream of testimony by the Center and its partners at the IACHR’s public hearing examining the grave human rights violations resulting from the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
En un nuevo reconocimiento de los derechos reproductivos – y en particular el derecho al aborto – como derechos humanos, las y los miembros del Parlamento Europeo tres aliadas del Centro de Derechos Reproductivos que trabajan para promover el aborto seguro y legal, han sido nombradas finalistas al Premio Sájarov a la Libertad de Conciencia […]