(GENEVA) The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes today’s recognition by the UK Supreme Court that Northern Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion law contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights. Although for procedural reasons the Court did not issue a declaration of incompatibility, the Court recognized that the law infringes the human rights of women and girls […]
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Pakistan Addresses High Rate of Fistula https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HP_thumb_fistula.jpg The high court in Pakistan’s Sindh region is facing the country’s first case to seek recognition of the widespread incidence of obstetric fistula as a violation of women’s fundamental rights to dignity and life. The court has called for the formation of a committee of health experts to […]
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https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Feature_fistula.jpg Unnecessary Suffering A new case filing in the Sindh province of Pakistan demands that the government take immediate action to help thousands of women afflicted each year with obstetric fistula. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/feature_fistula.jpg During what should have been an active, joyful time, young Karachi resident Kiran Sohail was plunged into almost a decade of suffering just […]
Pakistani High Court Calls for Response to Allegations Women Are Denied Maternal Health Services (PRESS RELEASE) Today the High Court of Sindh ordered the government of Sindh to respond by September 29 to a petition alleging that the government has failed to prevent the high incidence of obstetric fistula, a treatable pregnancy-related injury that afflicts […]
Pakistan’s Sindh Government increases access to obstetric fistula repair services to comply with orders by the High Court
Combatting Child Marriage https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_thumb.jpg The numbers are disturbing. According to a recent UNICEF study, one in nine girls in the developing world will marry before age 15, one in three will marry before 18. Some are as young as eight. Child marriage remains an all-too-common reality throughout large swaths of the world—particularly South Asia. And […]
UN Takes Major Action to End Child Marriage https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CRR_FS_childmarriage_10-3-13.jpg For the first time in history, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution dedicated to ending the blight of child marriage. Over 100 countries co-sponsored the resolution that was adopted on September 27, and remaining member states had until Friday, October 11, to sign […]