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This month saw the culmination of the Center's decade-long fight for
justice for a woman in El Salvador, an urgent response to a harmful
bill in India, an update on our pilot program in Uganda, and a step
toward gender equality in the U.S. and beyond.
For more Center news from both in and out of the courts, keep
reading or visit our website for more updates.
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Latin America and the Caribbean
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Center argues historic case at the Inter-American Court of Human
Rights
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On March 10 and 11, the Center and our local partner argued before the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Manuela v. El
Salvador-the first case to reach the top court on the
criminalization of obstetric emergencies due to a country's total
abortion ban. The case centers around a Salvadoran woman, Manuela, who
in 2008 was unjustly sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated
homicide after losing her pregnancy. She died imprisoned two years
later, after receiving inadequate medical treatment for her cancer.
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Africa
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A year after Uganda pilot program's launch, the Center presents
findings to the UN
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In 2020, the Center and our partners at CARE International in Uganda
launched a new pilot program to protect the sexual and reproductive
health and rights (SRHR) of women and girls in one of Uganda's largest
refugee settlements. A year later, we presented initial results from
the pilot to the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and
Girls in hopes of using key learnings to inform future projects and
advance SRHR in other refugee communities.
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Asia
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India passes abortion "reform" that fails to undo barriers to access
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The Parliament of India just passed an amendment to the country's
50-year abortion law that increases overall gestational limits,
marking progress. However, the amendment also entrenches a harmful
policy requiring women to obtain authorization by medical
practitioners for all abortion care-even in the earliest stages
of pregnancy-despite broad calls for its removal. The Center for
Reproductive Rights is working closely with national partners to
highlight the amendment's negative implications for SRHR in India,
providing human rights legal expertise, contributing technical support
and resources, engaging in urgent advocacy actions, and amplifying the
work of national partners.
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United States
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For International Women's Day, two executive orders to advance gender
equality
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President Biden issued two Executive Orders around gender equality on
International Women's Day. The first order established a Gender
Policy Council within the Executive Office of the President, while the
second centers around gender equity for students, including the right
to an education free from discrimination on the basis of sex. This
pair of orders make clear the Biden administration's aim to
drive gender equality as a human right in the U.S. and around the
world.
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"Manuela was the victim of a State that does not protect the life and
health of women, that discriminates and criminalizes them for having
natural complications of pregnancy and does not provide guarantees to
protect the confidentiality between medical staff and patients."
-Catalina Martínez Coral
Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean on Manuela
v. El Salvador
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