Submission to the UN Human Rights Council Examines Pakistan’s Lack of Progress on SRHR Issues
Report outlines country’s failure on sexual and reproductive health rights and services and recommends laws and policies to improve access.
Report outlines country’s failure on sexual and reproductive health rights and services and recommends laws and policies to improve access.
The Center for Reproductive Rights and Aahung, a Karachi-based NGO, presented this joint submission on July 13, 2022, to supplement the report of the Government of Pakistan scheduled for review in the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council. This submission focuses on the Government’s obligations to protect and promote sexual and reproductive rights. Specifically, […]
Government of Sindh must take action to protect the thousands of women afflicted with obstetric fistula UPDATE, January 2019: In response to the petition, the Health Department of Sindh has committed to establishing four fistula repair centers in the province to improve availability of fistula repair treatment. In its annual planning documents, the Health Department […]
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https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Feature_fistula.jpg Unnecessary Suffering A new case filing in the Sindh province of Pakistan demands that the government take immediate action to help thousands of women afflicted each year with obstetric fistula. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/feature_fistula.jpg During what should have been an active, joyful time, young Karachi resident Kiran Sohail was plunged into almost a decade of suffering just […]
Combatting Child Marriage https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_thumb.jpg The numbers are disturbing. According to a recent UNICEF study, one in nine girls in the developing world will marry before age 15, one in three will marry before 18. Some are as young as eight. Child marriage remains an all-too-common reality throughout large swaths of the world—particularly South Asia. And […]
UN Takes Major Action to End Child Marriage https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CRR_FS_childmarriage_10-3-13.jpg For the first time in history, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution dedicated to ending the blight of child marriage. Over 100 countries co-sponsored the resolution that was adopted on September 27, and remaining member states had until Friday, October 11, to sign […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Thumb.png A new report calls on the governments in South Asia to stop the human rights crisis that is child marriage. This publication was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Web.pdf https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_FactSheet_Web.pdf https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Web.singlepage.pdf https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_FactSheet_Web.singlepage.pdf
CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently issued concluding observations from its February review of Pakistan’s compliance with CEDAW and called out the government for lack of access to health care and policies that routinely […]