Center’s New Factsheet Explains Recent Changes to the Abortion Law in India
Amendment to India’s 1971 law a step forward, but gaps remain.
Amendment to India’s 1971 law a step forward, but gaps remain.
This Center factsheet, released in September 2022, outlines and analyzes India’s 2021 MTP Amendment Act, which aimed to reform the country’s 50-year-old abortion law, the 1971 Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.
1 de diciembre de 2021 — El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y la Colectiva Feminista para el Desarrollo Local, con el acompañamiento de la Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto, lograron que la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) declarara responsable al Estado salvadoreño por las violaciones de derechos humanos de las que […]
11.30.2021 – (PRESS STATEMENT) Today, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced a ruling in the case of Manuela v. El Salvador ordering the State of El Salvador to reform its legal and health care policies that criminalize women for seeking reproductive health care. The case was brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the […]
Report by the Center and partners launched at a virtual event for advocates and stakeholders in India.
The goal of this report is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impact that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in El Salvador. Secondly, the report analyzes the response to the Zika epidemic through both a public health and human rights lens, ultimately finding that there was […]
The goal of this report series is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impacts that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in Colombia, Brazil, and El Salvador. Secondly, these reports analyze the global response to the Zika epidemic through both a public health and human rights lens, […]
https://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 […]
After 10 years of wrongful imprisonment after she had a stillbirth, our client Teodora was again denied her freedom. [UPDATE] Following 11 years of wrongful imprisonment after suffering an obstetric emergency, the Salvadoran Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety commuted Teodora’s sentence and released her today. In their […]
21 Members Of Congress Call On El Salvador To Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Today Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Norma J. Torres delivered a letter from 21 Members of Congress, including House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot Engel, calling on President Sánchez Cerén of El Salvador and President of the Salvadoran Congress Guillermo Gallegos […]