Filing date: April 2007 Country/Region: Slovakia Center Attorney(s): Christina Zampas Partners: 1) International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic of the City University of New York School of Law, 2) Slovak Family Planning Association, and 3) ProChoice Slovakia
17-year-old K.L. took on the country Peru for enabling officials to force her to carry a fatally-impaired fetus to term. When our client K.L. was seventeen years old, she found out that she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. Even though abortion is legal in Peru for therapeutic reasons, K.L. was illegally denied access to […]
Úvod1. Tieto písomné pripomienky predkladá Centrum pre reprodukčné práva v New York City a Právna klinika medzinárodných ženských ľudských práv pri Právnickej fakulte City University v New Yorku v spolupráci so Slovenskou spoločnosťou pre plánované rodičovstvo a Možnostou voľby, Slovensko.2. Tieto pripomienky vychádzajú z judikatúry Európskeho systému ľudských práv, ako aj z rozhodnutí a zákonov […]
Introduction1. These written comments are submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic at the City University of New York School of Law, in cooperation with the Slovak Family Planning Association and Slovakia Pro Choice.2. These comments rely on the jurisprudence of the European Human Rights System, as […]
PROCEDURE1. The case originated in an application (no. 5410/03) against the Republic of Poland lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) by a Polish national, Ms Tysiąc (“the applicant”), on 15 January 2003… https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Tysiac_decision.pdf
Introduction1. The Center for Reproductive Rights submits these written comments pursuant to leave granted by the President of the Chamber in accordance with Rule 44 § 2 and § 4 of the Rules of the Court. These comments address the issue of whether a member state of the Council of Europe (“member state”) that has […]
Communication No. 4/2004Submitted by: Ms. A. S. (represented by the European Roma Rights Center and the Legal Defence Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities)Alleged victim: The authorState party: HungaryDate of communication: 12 February 2004 (initial submission) On 14 August 2006, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted the annexed text as the […]
UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMENSUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION RE:A.S. V. HUNGARYCOMMUNICATION NO: 4/2004This memorandum offers comments in the case of A.S. v. Hungary. It is submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights, an international non-governmental organization that uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that […]
Introduction1. These written comments are submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights pursuant to leave granted by the President of the Grand Chamber in accordance with Rule 44 § 2 of the Rules of Court. They address the question of whether an unborn foetus is entitled to the protection granted persons under Article 2 of […]
Introduction1. These written comments are submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights pursuant to leave granted by the President of the Chamber in accordance with Rule 44 § 2 and § 4 of the Rules of the Court. They address the question of whether restrictive abortion laws—particularly those that prohibit abortion in cases of fetal […]