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Protecting the Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Women Living with HIV

12.1.10 - On this World AIDS Day, the Center is urging governments to protect the sexual and reproductive rights of women living with HIV. Significant progress has been made in the last decade in response [...]

HIV/AIDS,Latin America & Caribbean, Chile, United States,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,News

In Chile, HIV-Positive Women are Regularly Abused in Medical Facilities

Among Other Abuses, CRR and Vivo Positivo’s Report Documents Forced Sterilization, Verbal Abuse, Denials of Service (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Chilean-based HIV/AIDS service organization Vivo Positivo released new human rights [...]

HIV/AIDS,Latin America & Caribbean, Chile,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World, Reporting on Rights

Dignity Denied: Download Report

Women account for roughly 50% of the 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Although the total percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS has stabilized in the last few years, individual countries, including Chile, continue [...]

Abortion, Anti-Choice Harassment, Legal Restrictions, Biased Information, Censorship, HIV/AIDS, Discriminatory Policies, Right to Care, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Coercive Policies, Maternal Mortality,Latin America & Caribbean, Chile, Accountability Bodies, Inter-American Human Rights System,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA), Reporting on Rights,Publications

Demanding Rights for HIV Positive Women

Around the world, laws and policies stigmatize and discriminate against people living with HIV/AIDS, violating their human rights. In reaction to this, people living with HIV are increasingly using the law to hold governments accountable [...]

HIV/AIDS, Discriminatory Policies, Right to Care, Maternal Health, Coercive Policies,Latin America & Caribbean, Chile,In the Courts, At the United Nations, Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,News

The Center at CSW 2009

Why should reproductive rights be on the HIV/AIDS agenda? How do we hold governments accountable for the rights violations HIV-positive women suffer every day? The Center, drawing on its expertise in human rights law and [...]

Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Latin America & Caribbean, Chile, United States, Accountability Bodies,At the United Nations

Forcibly Sterilized Woman Files International Case against Chile

Addresses Ongoing HIV Discrimination in Country New York—Today, a woman diagnosed with HIV filed a complaint against Chile before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an international human rights body, charging that the government failed [...]

Maternal Health,Latin America & Caribbean, Chile,In the Courts,News

Mujer esterilizada sin su consentimiento presenta demanda contra Chile en foro internacional

El caso se refiere a la reiterada discriminación contra personas que viven con VIH Nueva York—El día de hoy la ciudadana chilena F.S., diagnosticada con VIH, demandó al Estado chileno ante la Comisión Interamericana de [...]

Latin America & Caribbean, Chile,News

In re Access to Emergency Contraception in Chile (Chilean Constitutional Court)

On April 13, 2007, the Center filed a third party intervention in support of the national reproductive health and family planning regulations authorizing the free distribution of emergency contraception (EC). The Center’s intervention was a [...]

Contraception, Emergency Contraception,Latin America & Caribbean, Chile,In the Courts,Case

Concluding Observations: Chile_CEDAW_1999_Spanish

Concluding Observations: Chile_CEDAW_1999_Spanish

Latin America & Caribbean, Chile, Accountability Bodies, United Nations,Reporting on Rights,Documents

Shadow Report: Chile_CEDAW_1999_Spanish

Concluding Observations: Chile_CEDAW_1999_Spanish

Latin America & Caribbean, Chile, Accountability Bodies, United Nations,Reporting on Rights,Documents