https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hp_bogota.jpg (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced the opening of its new regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogotá, Colombia. The Center has worked in the region for fifteen years, advancing women’s access to reproductive health services, through human rights litigation and the documentation of reproductive rights violations. “We’ve […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Colombia-USAID.JPG USAID funds must not be used to roll back historic wins for women’s reproductive health and rights in Colombia — this is the message that the Center recently delivered to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a forceful letter. Our urgent appeal comes as Colombia’s Attorney General continues to assault women’s access to […]
(Press Release) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights applauded the Colombian Constitutional Court’s decision which strongly reaffirms a woman’s right to seek an abortion in Colombia, a country which until 2006 had outlawed abortion under all circumstances. In 2006, the court ruled that abortion must be permitted when a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life or […]
I. IntroductionThe issue presented before the honorable Constitutional Court of Colombia in this case – whether the categorical ban on abortion in Article 122 of the Colombian Penal Code is constitutional – raises a question of first impression for this Court that involves the most fundamental rights of life, health and dignity.Constitutional courts and legislatures […]
In April 2005, Colombian citizen Monica Róa, a former Center fellow and current attorney at Women’s Link Worldwide, filed a petition with the Colombian Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality of Colombia’s abortion law, which categorically prohibited abortion. Her petition argued that the Constitution of Colombia requires exceptions to the prohibition of abortion that protect a […]
Colombia’s Constitution Requires Government to Allow for Abortion in Some Cases New York, NY | More Info In a landmark decision, Colombia’s highest court has ruled that abortion must be permitted when a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life or health, in cases of rape, incest and in cases where the fetus has malformations incompatible with […]