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, 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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
PRESS STATEMENT, September 22, 2023 – Women, girls, and transgender and non-binary individuals in Brazil have a new hope for the protection of their rights. Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has begun voting on a lawsuit that seeks to decriminalize abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation nationwide. The lawsuit, known as ADPF 442, examines […]
Declaração, 22 de setembro de 2023 – As mulheres, meninas, pessoas trans e não binárias no Brasil têm uma nova esperança para a garantia de seus direitos. O Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) do Brasil iniciou a votação de uma ação que busca descriminalizar o aborto até as 12 semanas de gestação. A ação de inconstitucionalidade, […]
Declaración, 22 de septiembre de 2023 – Las mujeres, niñas y personas trans y no binarias en Brasil tienen una nueva esperanza para la garantía de sus derechos. El Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) de Brasil ha comenzado la votación de una demanda que busca despenalizar el aborto hasta las 12 semanas de gestación. La acción […]