¿Cómo beneficiaría a las niñas y adolescentes la eliminación del delito de aborto en Colombia?
A publication on the benefits of abortion decriminalization for girls and adolescents in Colombia.
A publication on the benefits of abortion decriminalization for girls and adolescents in Colombia.
Case of Britez Arce et. al. v. Argentina Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2022) Issue: Obstetric violence in Latin America and the Caribbean Center Position: Obstetric violence is a form of gender-based violence. This case concerned a pregnant Argentinian woman, Cristina Britez Arce, whose death resulted from inadequate medical treatment. The Center filed an amicus […]
As the Colombian government has tried to restart its aerial fumigation program with a herbicide called glyphosate, the Center for Reproductive Rights has published a report showing that the herbicide used in the program had negative effects on people’s reproductive health and making public policy recommendations to maintain that government program stopped. The Center supports […]
The decision whether or not to have children does not belong to any armed group, to the State or to anyone else but the women themselves. The Center presented this report on reproductive violence to the Colombian Truth Commission that was created after the signing of the peace agreement between the FARC-EP and the Colombian […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights and its Colombia-based partners are awaiting a decision by the Constitutional Court of Colombia that could decriminalize abortion throughout the country.
The Center is working with the transitional justice system created in Colombia after the peace agreement in 2016, in order to identify reproductive violence as a structural phenomenon of the country’s local armed conflict. These reproductive violations affected the entire population, not just within the outlawed groups. This study identifies that all parties to the […]