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Urgent Action Victory! Abortion Decriminalized in Chile (Chile: UA 161.17)
Chile’s Constitutional Tribunal has ruled in favour of decriminalizing abortion under three specific circumstances. This is an important step toward ensuring the protection of women and girls’ human rights across…
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Urgent Action Victory! Abortion Decriminalized In Chile (Chile: UA 161.17)
Chile’s Constitutional Tribunal has ruled in favour of decriminalizing abortion under three specific circumstances. This is an important step toward ensuring the protection of women and girls’ human rights across…
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Brazil: New Amnesty campaign will fight back as Congress considers legal changes that flagrantly attack human rights
Amnesty International today launches a new campaign to fight back against a raft of changes currently being discussed by Congress which could reduce legal protections for marginalized groups, impose a…
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Urgent Action Victory! Congress Rejects Regressive Abortion Reform (Dominican Republic: UA 151.16)
On 11 July, the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Congress voted to reject proposed reforms to the Criminal Code that failed to decriminalize abortion in limited circumstances and continued…
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Urgent Action Victory! Congress Rejects Regressive Abortion Reform (Dominican Republic: UA 151.16)
On 11 July, the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Congress voted to reject proposed reforms to the Criminal Code that failed to decriminalize abortion in limited circumstances and continued…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Woman Convicted Under Unfair Anti-Abortion Law (El Salvador: UA 98.17)
While Salvadoran legislators have, for months, been postponing the debate on the Criminal Code reform that would decriminalize abortion, another rape survivor has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for…
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El Salvador rape survivor sentenced to 30 years in jail under extreme anti-abortion law
The sentence against a 19-year-old rape survivor of 30 years in prison on charges of “aggravated homicide” after she suffered pregnancy-related complications, is a terrifying example of the need for…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Urge Congress To Decriminalize Abortion (Dominican Republic: UA 151.16)
In May 2017, the Dominican Senate voted to reject the President’s recommendations to decriminalize abortion. The President’s recommendations are now being discussed by the Justice Commission of the Chamber of…
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Youth Webinar for ICM Resolutions
The International Council Meeting (ICM) will be held on August 10-15, 2017. This is where the movement's global policies, priorities, and governance structures will be decided, and it is so…
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Toolkits & Guides
“How-to” resources to help you protect human rights We produce practical tools to help activists start groups and campaign for human rights. If you have an idea for a toolkit…
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El Salvador: Critical opportunity to put an end to total criminalization of abortion
The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador has a historic opportunity to reject the criminalization of abortion and protect the health and lives of millions of women throughout the country.
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Honduras: Historic opportunity to decriminalize abortion
Ahead of a debate in the Honduran congress today over the country’s criminalization of abortion, Amnesty International’s Americas Director Erika Guevara-Rosas said: “By criminalizing abortion, the Honduran Penal Code is…