Issue: Discriminatory Policies
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Calls for Better Access to Reproductive Health Services
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Calls for Better Access to Reproductive Health Services (PRESS RELEASE) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)—the principal human rights body for the Americas—released a statement that underscores how laws [...]
Inter-American Commission Holds Hearing On Forced Sterilization Of Chilean Woman Living With HIV
Inter-American Commission Holds Hearing On Forced Sterilization Of Chilean Woman Living With HIV (PRESS RELEASE) Reproductive health and human rights advocates gathered in Washington D.C. for a hearing in the case of F.S., a Chilean woman [...]
Center Submission regarding Constitutionality of Croatia’s Act on Health Measures for the Realization of the Right to Freely Decide on the Childbirth
Abortion, Legal Protections, Legal Restrictions, HIV/AIDS, Discriminatory Policies,Europe, Croatia,At the United Nations, Reporting on Rights,DocumentsThe Africa Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Uganda Shadow Letter
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Government of Ecuador Fails to Protect the Rights of People Living With HIV
Government of Ecuador Fails to Protect the Rights of People Living With HIV (PRESS RELEASE) The Ecuadoran government violated the human rights of a young girl living with HIV according to a ruling by the [...]
Forced Sterilization in Chile
Forced Sterilization in Chile Francisca, a young Chilean woman, describes the day her only son was born as the worst and the best day of her life. The best—for obvious reasons. The worst—for reasons almost too [...]
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni Signs Callous Law Criminalizing HIV and AIDS Transmission
(PRESS RELEASE) Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed legislation this week criminalizing the transmission of HIV, a measure that allows doctors to violate confidentiality and disclose their patients’ HIV status without consent and calls for mandatory [...]
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Calls for Expanded Access to Safe, Legal Reproductive Health Care
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Calls for Expanded Access to Safe, Legal Reproductive Health Care Municipal resolution declares February “Women, Girls, and Transgender Women’s Health Month,” calls for passage of federal Women’s Health Protection Act [...]
The Hill: Far from home, Peace Corps volunteers deserve equal reproductive health care coverage
The Hill: Peace Corps volunteers deserve equal reproductive health care coverage By Julianna Gonen "Buried within the labyrinth that is the Congressional appropriations process lies a federal policy that has been discriminating against, harming, and [...]