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TAG: reproductive rights

Blogs

The links below give access to blog engaged on sexual and reproductive rights.

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Terror attack at “Vessel” screening in Sweden

Three masked men stormed a screening of SXSW-winning abortion documentary Vessel (pictured) in Sweden on Sunday (December 7), setting off a smoke bomb that sent audience members fleeing in panic. The SXSW award-winning documentary, which focuses on activist Rebecca Gomperts and her pro-choice organization Women on Waves, was being screened at the Abortion Rights Festival […]

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CSW59 DECLARATION: A WEAK DOCUMENT TO ADDRESS THE WOMEN’ S AND GIRLS CHALLENGES

Women’s, Feminists and other civil society NGOs from Latin America and the Caribbean launched a statement criticizing the Political Declaration approved by Members States Monday 9 march in United Nations, in the 59 period of Sessions of the Commission on the Social Status of Women (CSW). Learn more.

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Iran birth drive ‘turns women into baby-making machines’

Draft laws aimed at boosting the birth rate in Iran reduce women to “baby-making machines”, the rights group Amnesty International warns. One proposal outlaws voluntary sterilisation and promoting birth control, while another makes it harder for women without babies to get jobs. Amnesty says the two laws would set women’s rights in Iran back by […]

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Sexual and reproductive rights global landscape in March 2015

Women’s, feminists and other civil society NGOs from Latin America and the Caribbean launched astatementcriticizing the Political Declaration approved by Members States Monday 9 march in United Nations, in the 59 period of Sessions of the Commission on the Social Status of Women (CSW). In Iran, two new draft laws were tabled. One of them […]

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Making It More Affordable to Raise a Baby Won’t Make Abortion Demand Obsolete

by Amanda Marcotte March 3, 2015 – 9:39 am With their new paper, the Brookings Institution‘s researchers Richard V. Reeves and Joanna Venator set out to explain the dramatic difference in unintended childbearing rates between low-income and middle-class women, and how that discrepancy helps perpetuate inequality. Reeves and Venator certainly succeeded in this regard, showing how single middle-class […]

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Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Latin America: Implications for Democracy

We are pleased to present this report on women’s reproductive rights in Latin America. In recent decades, women throughout the region have made tremendous strides towards securing equal rights in almost every sphere. Yet a number of challenges remain. Lack of access to reproductive health services, comprehensive sexuality education, and contraception prevent women from fully […]

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Anti-Abortion Stigma Is Not the Only Cultural Force Restricting Reproductive Rights

by Morgan Meneses-Sheets January 5, 2015 – 10:51 am   For too many people in this country, the barriers to abortion have gotten so immense that individuals no longer have the ability to seek services. There may be laws that place obstacles like waiting periods in their paths. They may be struggling to make ends […]

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Organization of American States Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women; Calls on Governments to Decriminalize Abortion

10.03.14 – (PRESS RELEASE) For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the Americas—is recommending that all governments decriminalize abortion in cases of rape and incest, when the woman’s health or life is at risk and in cases of fetal impairments. This OAS committee focused on […]

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Reproductive Justice Activists Must Combat Anti-Choicers’ False Push for Disability Rights

by Erin Matson, Editor at Large, RH Reality Check September 24, 2014 – 2:41 pm   All over the country, from Denver to Minneapolis and beyond, billboards recently sprang up featuring a smiling white boy cradling a white infant. “My brother is a blessing,” reads the text above the children’s heads. “He has Down syndrome.” […]

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Lessons From the First Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review: From Commitment to Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

The Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI) has published a report called: Lessons From the First Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review: From Commitment to Action on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Click here to read it.

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Global and regional campaigns for September, 28th, 2014.

International Campaign for Womens Right to Safe Abortion When abortion is a crime – Center for Reproductive Rights. Take action for the September 28 Campaign to Decriminalize Abortion: Sign our petition! – Ipas Amnesty International African Campaign Americas  and the Caribbean campaign Asian Campaign European campaign

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