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Advocating for Abortion Reform in the Philippines
New brief outlines the impact of the country’s restrictive laws and recommends legalization and decriminalization.
New brief outlines the impact of the country’s restrictive laws and recommends legalization and decriminalization.
Actions follow years of advocacy by the Center and its national partners.
“For Filipinos to fully exercise their human rights, they must be able to make free and informed decisions and have access to abortion care.” — Jacob
U.N. General Assembly Adopts Resolution to End Child, Early, and Forced Marriage Worldwide (PRESS RELEASE) Today the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) reaffirmed its commitment to eliminating child, early and forced marriage globally with a new resolution that calls on states to strengthen laws and policies to protect women and girls from this harmful practice. […]
A 2007 report by the Center documenting human rights violations associated with Executive Order 003 became the basis for a special inquiry convened by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)—an international human rights treaty body—in 2012 to investigate these concerns. The inquiry is the first of its kind to […]
Philippine Department of Justice Fails to Include Grounds for Abortion in Draft Criminal Code (PRESS RELEASE) More than 50 representatives from human rights organizations, academia, and other civil society groups in the Philippines and abroad, have expressed frustration to Honorable Leila M. de Lima, Secretary at the Department of Justice, about the serious and widespread […]
In early November, the Human Rights Committee issued its Concluding Observations on two harmful reproductive health policies in the Philippines: the country’s criminal ban on abortion without any clear exceptions and the prohibition of funding for modern contraceptives in Manila City. The Committee noted that the ban on abortion has led women to seek out […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_feature_header_human_life_amendment.jpg A World of Tragedy: The real-world consequences of a “human life” amendment The opponents of reproductive rights are once again calling for a “human life” amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Of course, the Constitution already protects human life, what these extremists really want is to completely ban abortion nationwide. The amendment’s innocuous name masks […]
Philippines Contraception Conflict https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_FI_Philippines_Contraception_Conflict.jpg The third time was not a charm in the Philippines. So on August 7, the Philippine government will make a fourth attempt to pass a family planning law, this one allowing health officials to provide free birth control and encourage families to have no more than two kids. The Catholic Church […]
Philippines: Time to Take Action https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_Philippines_HPImage.jpg The Center for Reproductive Rights is calling on the Philippines—a country with one of the worst human rights records on protecting women’s health— to adopt and implement a set of key recommendations on reproductive health before a panel of its peers at the United Nations. The U.N. Human Rights Council, […]