Safe Abortion Through Medical Abortion and Self-Management in Select Asian Countries
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.
Decriminalization of Abortion in Nepal: Imperative to Uphold Women’s Rights (Fact Sheet)
This 2021 fact sheet by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Forum for Women, Law and Development (FWLD) highlights the continued criminalization of women for seeking abortion beyond prescribed legal conditions despite progressive legislation that [...]
Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health Regulation in Nepal, 2020
The publication is jointly printed with the Center for Reproductive Rights, Ipas Nepal and the Forum for Women Law and Development.
Necessary legal reforms to ensure improved access to safe abortion for women and girls in Nepal
Factsheet based on fact-finding study jointly conducted by the Center and its Nepal-based implementing partner organization, Forum for Women Law and Development in 2017. The factsheet was published in 2018 and covered the key highlights [...]
Need of Separate Law on Abortion in Nepal, 2015
Publication developed by the Center and jointly published by Reproductive Health Rights Working Groups (RHRWG). The fact sheet presents why specific and comprehensive law on safe abortion is necessary in Nepal and what would be [...]
Fact Sheet: Accountability for Child Marriage
Key U.N. recommendations to governments in South Asia on reproductive health and sexual violence.
Manju & Others v. Government of Nepal
The Asia program’s new fact sheet features a groundbreaking reproductive rights case, Manju &, Others v. Government of Nepal, which was filed in the Supreme Court of Nepal in September 2013, by Justice for All. [...]
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Child Marriage in South Asia: Stop the Impunity
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.
Fact Sheet: Nepal Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision Upholding the Right to Abortion
The Center has authored a new fact sheet on an important decision from the Supreme Court of Nepal in the case of Lakshmi Dhikta v. Nepal that upholds a woman’s right to abortion. This case [...]
Voices from Nepal: Excerpts from Abortion in Nepal: Women Imprisoned
Nepal’s punitive approach to abortion has threatened women’s lives and health, reinforced entrenched gender discrimination, and interfered with women’s decision-making on a matter with immense personal implications. Those who have been arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned [...]
Abortion in Nepal: Women Imprisoned
This report, produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Forum for Women, Law and Development, documents human rights abuses arising from Nepal's abortion law. The report examines violations of women's rights relating to [...]
Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives South Asia
The Center for Reproductive Rights’ report, Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives - South Asia, is the first extensive examination of laws and policies that influence women’s reproductive health in [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
