“I am delighted to let you know that as part of our Human Rights Day celebrations, we have just published the December 2019 issue of the Health and Human Rights Journal. We have plenty of reason to celebrate this issue – it marks our 25th year of publishing since Jonathan Mann launched the Journal in 1994.”
The issue has two special sections on abortion:
- Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa (Guest Editors: Liv Tønnessen and Irene Maffi)
- Abortion Law Reform (Guest Editors: Marge Berer and Lesley Hoggart)
1. Special Section: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa
EDITORIAL The limits of the law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa
by Irene Maffi, Liv Tønnessen HTML | PDF
The politicization of abortion and Hippocratic disobedience in Islamist Sudan
by Liv Tønnessen, Samia al-Nagar HTML | PDF
Moral work and the construction of abortion networks: women’s access to safe abortion in Lebanon
Non-marital pregnancies and unmarried women’s search for illegal abortion in Morocco
The unique landscape of abortion law and access in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Neoliberal health restructuring, neoconservatism and the limits of law: erosion of reproductive rights in Turkey
The right to abortion in Tunisia after the revolution of 2011: legal, medical, and social arrangements as seen through seven abortion stories
by Irene Maffi, Malika Affes HTML | PDF
2. Special Section: Abortion Law Reform
EDITORIAL Progress towards decriminalization of abortion and universal access to safe abortions: national trends and strategies
by Marge Berer, Lesley Hoggart HTML | PDF
Eliminating abortion from criminal law: a just cause
by Ana Cristina González-Vélez, Carolina Melo-Arévalo, Juliana Martínez-Londoño HTML | PDF
The role of reproductive justice movements in challenging South Korea’s abortion ban
by Sunhye Kim, Na Young, Yurim Lee HTML | PDF
From the grassroots to the Oireachtas: abortion law reform in the Republic of Ireland
by Anna Carnegie, Rachel Roth HTML | PDF
Abortion in Chile: the long road to legalization and its slow implementation
by Gloria Maira, Lidia Casas, Lieta Vivaldi HTML | PDF
Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists
by Pam Lowe, Sarah-Jane Page HTML | PDF
Midwives and post-abortion care in Gabon: “Things have really changed”
by Aimée Patricia Ndembi Ndembi, Justine Mekuí, Gail Pheterson, Marijke Alblas HTML | PDF
They are girls, not mothers: the violence of forcing motherhood on young girls in Latin America
The Gambia’s political transition to democracy: is abortion reform possible?
by Satang Nabaneh HTML | PDF
Preventing state harassment of abortion providers: the work of the Legal Support Network in Latin America and East Africa
by Ximena Casas, Mitchelle Kimathi-Osiemo, Dee Redwine, Claire Tebbets, Karen Plafker HTML | PDF
Denial of safe abortion to survivors of rape in India