This fact sheet discusses the implications of the Colombia Constitutional Court's ruling in February, 2022, decriminalizing abortion up to 24 weeks of gestation.

An infographic showing the global trends in abortion rights.

Eulogia es una mujer campesina y quechuahablante que quería tener un parto vertical y en casa, conforme a sus tradiciones y de la misma forma que había tenido a sus otros cinco hijos. Sin embargo, [...]

Eulogia is a Quechua woman who wanted to have a vertical birth according to her traditions and in the same way she had delivered her other five children, but the Peruvian government ignored her cultural [...]

En 2002, Francisca decidió tener su primer hijo, pero en la primera etapa de su embarazo la diagnosticaron VIH. Ella tomó las medidas para reducir el contagio vertical al feto y dio a luz mediante [...]

In a landmark ruling in Paola Guzmán Albarracín v. Ecuador, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights established legally binding standards to prevent sexual violence and harassment in schools throughout Latin America and the Caribbean and held [...]

Available in Spanish: Manuela vs. El Salvador: El Impacto De La Prohibicion Absoluta Del Aborto Sobre Las Mujeres Que Sufren Emergencias Obstetricas

Background The Latin America and Caribbean region is the only one in the world where the number of girls under 15 giving birth continues to rise. Access to sexual and reproductive health services can save [...]