A Decade of Existence: Revealing Progress, Reversals, and Betrayal of a National Compromise
This report outlines recommendations for effective implementation of Article 26(4) of the Kenyan constitution, including services for access to safe abortion care.
Criminalizing Adolescence
Adolescents constitute 24 percent of the population in Kenya. Nearly one-quarter of adolescents living in Kenya have an unmet need for family planning. This leaves adolescents vulnerable to early and unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmissible [...]
Fact Sheet: Enforcing Kenya’s obligation to provide legal abortion services
FIDA KENYA & 3 OTHERS VS. ATTORNEY GENERAL & 2 OTHERS CONSTITUTIONAL PETITION NO 266 OF 2015
Bungoma High Court Judgment in Josephine Oundo Ongwen v. the Attorney General & 4 Others (Fact Sheet)
Bungoma High Court Petition No. 5 of 2014
Detention and Abuse of Women Seeking Maternal Health Services
On September 17, 2015, the High Court of Kenya issued a groundbreaking judgment in the case of Millicent Awuor (Maimuna) & Margaret Anyoso Oliele v. Attorney General and others, Constitutional Petition No. 562 of 2012. [...]
Legal Grounds III: Reproductive and Sexual Rights in Sub-Saharan African Courts
Reproductive and sexual rights, which are guaranteed in constitutions and in international and regional human rights treaties, have no impact if they are not recognized and enforced by national-level courts. Legal Grounds: Sexual and Reproductive [...]
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Facing Uganda’s Law on Abortion
Maternal mortality continues to be a formidable factor in the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Uganda. Indeed 343 women out of every 100,000 women die from preventable pregnancy-related complications each [...]
Facing Uganda’s Law on Abortion: Experiences from Women and Service Providers
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Forced Out: Mandatory Pregnancy Testing and the Expulsion of Pregnant Students in Tanzanian Schools
The Center for Reproductive Rights’ Global Legal Program’s newest publication, Forced Out: Mandatory Pregnancy Testing and the Expulsion of Pregnant Students in Tanzanian Schools, documents the forced pregnancy testing and expulsion of pregnant school girls [...]
ICPD and Human Rights: 20 Years of Advancing Reproductive Rights though UN Treaty Bodies and Legal Reform
The ICPD and Human Rights fact sheets examine the progress states have made over the past twenty years fulfilling the commitments made in the ICPD Programme of Action. They highlight the extensive developments in international [...]
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