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November 1, 2021 Commentary

How Latin American Women Can Keep Fighting for Abortion Rights and Win

A crowd of women hold up green protest signs
November 1, 2021 Statement

US: The Texas Abortion Ban

October 19, 2021 News Release

Poland: A Year On, Abortion Ruling Harms Women

Anniversary Marks Ongoing Assault on Women’s Rights, Rule of Law

Women take part in a demonstration against the Polish abortion law, in Wroclaw, Poland, on March 17, 2021.
October 1, 2021 Dispatches

Illinois Should Protect Reproductive Rights

Legislators Need to Ensure Access to Safe, Legal Abortion Care for All

 People rally downtown for the Second Annual Women's March on January 20, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
September 27, 2021 Dispatches

Beijing to Reduce ‘Non-Medically Necessary’ Abortions

New Guidelines Raise Alarms for Reproductive Rights

A promotion for China's defunct one-child policy remains on the outer wall of a government office in Bobai, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, August 26, 2021.
September 14, 2021 News Release

Mexico: Landmark Reproductive Rights Rulings

Women’s Autonomy Should Be at Center of Abortion Regulation

A woman holds up a banner that reads "My body, I decide" during a rally to celebrate the decision of the Mexican Supreme Court that found the total criminalization of abortion to be unconstitutional, in Saltillo, Mexico September 7, 2021.
August 24, 2021 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights on Qatar

69th Pre-Session

Skyline with the skyscrapers in the financial area of Doha, the capital of Qatar. © 2017 Sergi Reboredo/AP Images
July 14, 2021 News Release

Ecuador: Criminalizing Abortion Affects Rights, Health

Greatest Harm for Indigenous, Afro-Descendent People Living in Poverty

Feminist activists and pro-choice groups witness a debate at Ecuador’s National Assembly on Criminal Code reform, in which there was a possibility that legislators would approve the decriminalization of abortion in cases involving rape, in Quito, Ecuador, on January 3, 2019.
June 10, 2021 Statement

The Right of Everyone to Sexual and Reproductive Health: Challenges and Opportunities During Covid-19

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Banners and posters from a sit-in by pro-choice activists at the Ministry of Health in Rome on July 2, 2020.
April 29, 2021 Letter

Joint Letter to President Biden: Call for Executive Action on United States Abortion Restrictions on Foreign Aid

April 22, 2021 News Release

Dominican Republic: End Total Abortion Ban

Lawmakers Should Enact Proposed Criminal Code Reform

An abortion rights activist holds a plastic medallion reading "For the #3Causales (#3LegalGrounds), Life, Health and Dignity" during a protest to urge parliament to approve a proposed reform to the penal code that could end the total ban on abortion, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic March 18, 2021. 
March 31, 2021 Report

Poland: Escalating Threats to Women Activists

Investigate, Protect Rights Defenders, End Hateful Rhetoric

Protesters hold a banner of Strajk Kobiet (Women's Strike) during a protest in Warsaw on March 8,  International Women's Day, organized by the Women's Strike (Strajk Kobiet) against the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and the decision of the Constitutional Court.
March 30, 2021 Dispatches

US State Department Re-Commits to Reporting on Reproductive Rights

Secretary of State Blinken Recognizes Human Rights as Co-Equal and Interdependent

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the State Department in Washington, standing in front of a world map and a US flag.
March 26, 2021 Dispatches

Expanding Access to Cancer Screenings in the US Would Save Lives

New Federal Bill Focuses on Women of Color

Ms. Frances Ford, executive director of Sowing Seeds of Hope, in her home in August 2018, holding a picture of her mother, who died from cervical cancer after being diagnosed in 1980.
March 13, 2021 Commentary

LRA’s Ongwen: A critical first ICC conviction

Dominic Ongwen at his confirmation of charges hearing in ICC courtroom I on 21 January 2016 © ICC-CPI.

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