Media Highlights: Challenging Honduras’s Abortion Ban in Fausia’s Case
News and media highlights on the case.
News and media highlights on the case.
After becoming pregnant as a result of rape, an indigenous woman and human rights defender was denied emergency contraception and abortion care and was forced to give birth against her will.
Tegucigalpa, abril 10 de 2024. (Comunicado de prensa) – Por primera vez en la historia, Honduras es llevado ante la ONU por la prohibición absoluta del aborto. El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y el Centro de Derechos de Mujeres presentaron el caso de Fausia ante el Comité de Derechos Humanos de la Organización de Naciones […]
Tegucigalpa, April 10, 2024. (Press release) – For the first time in history, Honduras is brought before the UN for its absolute ban on abortion. The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Centro de Derechos de la Mujer (CDM) presented Fausia’s case to the UN Human Rights Committee with the aim of seeking justice on […]
The Center for Reproductive Rights and ten partner organizations issued a statement on #Sept28, International Safe Abortion Day of 2023, commending the people, governments, and organizations working to advance women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Nigeria, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. In addition to marking the progress made in securing […]
La prohibición absoluta del aborto es una violación a los derechos fundamentales de esas niñas.
The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners at the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) announced the release of a research report on sexual and reproductive rights in conflict settings at a recent event in Abuja, Nigeria. The report, titled “The Conflict in Northeast Nigeria’s Impact on the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women and Girls,” […]
The Center for Reproductve Rights worked for several years to support the efforts of women and civil society organizations in Ireland to secure reform of Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion law. Their decades of efforts culminated in 2018 when the Irish electorate voted by a resounding majority to remove the prohibition on abortion and Irish law […]
In Nigeria, millions of women have been harmed by the decades-long Boko Haram insurgency. They have lost their homes, loved ones, and suffered layers of abuse, violence, and trauma from this ongoing conflict, which first began in 2009. In a new publication, Accounting for Resiliency and Abuse in Nigeria, the Center for Reproductive Rights details the […]
Since 2018, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners at the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) have studied and documented the effects of the Boko Haram conflict on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women (SRHR) in Northeast Nigeria. The Center’s new report, entitled “The Conflict in Northeast Nigeria’s Impact on […]