The Center’s Work in Pakistan
Reports and other recent work on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues in Pakistan.
Reports and other recent work on sexual and reproductive health and rights issues in Pakistan.
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, […]
Ruling in Sayed v. Sindh marks major progress in improving maternal health, especially for women living on low incomes.
The ruling in Syed & Others v. Sindh by the Sindh High Court ordered Pakistan’s Sindh government to increase access to obstetric fistula repair services. The case was conceptualized by the Center’s South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative (SARJAI). Read the fact sheet:
Pakistan Court Orders Implementation of Measures to Address Obstetric Fistula The Center for Reproductive rights welcomes a ruling by the Sindh High Court in Pakistan directing the government to implement measures to provide access to obstetric fistula care in the province of Sindh, including the creation of fistula repair centers and the recruitment of qualified […]
Pakistan Addresses High Rate of Fistula https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HP_thumb_fistula.jpg The high court in Pakistan’s Sindh region is facing the country’s first case to seek recognition of the widespread incidence of obstetric fistula as a violation of women’s fundamental rights to dignity and life. The court has called for the formation of a committee of health experts to […]
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 […]
Pakistani High Court Calls for Response to Allegations Women Are Denied Maternal Health Services (PRESS RELEASE) Today the High Court of Sindh ordered the government of Sindh to respond by September 29 to a petition alleging that the government has failed to prevent the high incidence of obstetric fistula, a treatable pregnancy-related injury that afflicts […]
Pakistan’s Sindh Government increases access to obstetric fistula repair services to comply with orders by the High Court