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 […]
La prohibición absoluta del aborto es una violación a los derechos fundamentales de esas niñas.
Published collaboratively by Center for Reproductive Rights and South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative (SARJAI), this paper outlines the existing public health standards and the current human rights standards on abortion including medical and self-managed abortions.
Newsletter of the April 2020 updates regarding COVID-19’s effects on SRH services and gender issues throughout the Asia-Pacific region, more specifically: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Cambodia, and the Philippines. The Nepal RHRWG, PAPAC, and CRR-SARJAI network statements are linked in this document as well.
Combatting Child Marriage reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_thumb.jpg The numbers are disturbing. According to a recent UNICEF study, one in nine girls in the developing world will marry before age 15, one in three will marry before 18. Some are as young as eight. Child marriage remains an all-too-common reality throughout large swaths of the world—particularly South Asia. And […]
UN Takes Major Action to End Child Marriage reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CRR_FS_childmarriage_10-3-13.jpg For the first time in history, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution dedicated to ending the blight of child marriage. Over 100 countries co-sponsored the resolution that was adopted on September 27, and remaining member states had until Friday, October 11, to sign […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Thumb.png A new report calls on the governments in South Asia to stop the human rights crisis that is child marriage. This publication was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Web.pdf reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_FactSheet_Web.pdf reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Web.singlepage.pdf reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_FactSheet_Web.singlepage.pdf