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One Letter Can Change a Life. Millions Can Start a Human Rights Movement
By Maya Delany, Amnesty USA Student Activist Coordinator for Western Massachusetts Last December, I arrived at my student group’s annual Write for Rights AmnesTEA event and was greeted by dim…
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Dominican Republic takes women’s rights back to 1884
The Dominican Republic has taken a drastic step backwards for women’s human rights as the Constitutional Court struck down reforms to the Penal Code that would have decriminalized abortion in…
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El Salvador’s total abortion ban sentences children and families to trauma and poverty
El Salvador’s extreme anti-abortion law is having a devastating effect on the lives of scores of children whose mothers, having suffered miscarriages or other obstetric emergencies, are being held behind…
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Northern Ireland: Amnesty Welcomes Landmark Court Decision on Abortion Law
Amnesty International has welcomed today’s Belfast High Court decision in a Judicial Review case which found that laws governing abortion in Northern Ireland in cases of serious malformation of the…
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Chile: Urgent progress needed on right to decide after young woman arrested for a clandestine abortion
The arrest of a 22-year-old woman in Temuco for “consensual abortion” is yet another sign that the Chilean authorities have no time to lose with advancing legislation in the works…
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Reform of one child policy in China not enough
Chinese women will remain at risk of intrusive forms of contraception and coerced or forced abortions, despite the authorities announcing a change to the country’s decades-long one-child policy, Amnesty International…
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“Amnesty International members and activists are my heroes “: 12 Reasons to Write for Rights
Every December 10th on International Human Rights Day, I sit down and write letters as part of Amnesty’s annual global Write for Rights campaign. Why? Because in my 10 years…
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Amnesty International Marks International Day of Action for the Decriminalization of Abortion
Amnesty International supporters in more than 20 countries will mark the International Day of Action for the Decriminalization of Abortion on September 28 by telling governments to stop making criminals…
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How Some of the World’s Most Restrictive Abortion Laws Turn Women Into Criminals
Ireland, El Salvador, and Chile share a deplorable commonality — the governments of all three countries have enacted draconian and harmful abortion laws that put women’s and girls’ lives at…
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Lucky To Be Alive – Despite Paraguay’s Restrictive Abortion Laws
Mainumby is lucky to be alive. But unfortunately, this issue is far from being isolated to Paraguay – Chile and the Dominican Republic are two of a handful of countries…
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4,000 women and girls abandoned by the Irish State every year
Today in Dublin, Amnesty International activists from around the world staged a protest against Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws outside the Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Delegates brought 80 suitcases…
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It’s Time for Chile to Change Its Restrictive Abortion Laws
By Leah Schmidt, Identity and Discrimination Unit, Amnesty International USA In July 2013, an 11-year-old girl became pregnant after having been raped repeatedly for two years by her stepfather. However,…