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September 28, 2018 Dispatches

Escalating Global Effort for Safe, Legal Abortion

A Day to Highlight Women’s Struggle

Demonstrators hold up green handkerchiefs, which symbolize the abortion rights movement, during a demonstration in favor of legalizing abortion outside the Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 31, 2018.

September 24, 2018 Commentary

Presidential Candidates Need to Heed Abortion Debate

Activists demonstrate in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 19, 2018 in favor of abortion legalization.

September 6, 2018 Letter

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

August 31, 2018 News Release

Guatemala: Reject ‘Life and Family Protection’ Law

Dangerous Attack on Rights of Women and LGBT People

An indigenous woman holds a placard reading 'My Body My Territory Is to be Respected' as she demonstrates on International Women's Day in Guatemala City on March 8, 2018.

August 8, 2018 News Release

Argentina: Pass Law to Legalize Abortion

Senate Should End Harmful Policy

July 31, 2018 News Release

Brazil: Decriminalize Abortion

Court Considering Petition to Expand Access

July 26, 2018 Dispatches

Brazil Death Signals Need for Abortion Reform

Court Case Challenges Strict Laws

July 23, 2018 Commentary

A Move to Undermine Women’s Reproductive Health

People rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court while the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra case remained pending, in Washington, U.S., June 25, 2018.

July 7, 2018 Dispatches

Changes on US Supreme Court Heighten Importance of Ballot Initiative

Rights of Alabama Women are at Risk

Protesters for and against abortion rights huddle under umbrellas as they rally in groups outside while the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the abortion case National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra, in Washington, U.S

June 29, 2018 Statement

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on El Salvador

79th session, 2018

June 27, 2018 Dispatches

US Supreme Court Chips Away at Women’s Right to Information

Ruling Threatens Women’s Reproductive Rights and Health

June 12, 2018 News Release

Argentina: Decriminalize Abortion

Landmark Opportunity to End Harmful Policy

June 12, 2018 Statement

Testimony at the Argentine Congress on decriminalization of abortion

June 5, 2018 Commentary

Nepali Mothers and an Irish Daughter

Nepal Was Far Ahead of Its Neighbors in Protecting Reproductive Rights

Women activists lie down on the road during a protest demanding women’s rights in the constitution in Kathmandu, Nepal, August 7, 2015.

May 31, 2018 Dispatches

What Ireland’s Abortion Referendum Means for Latin America

Countries in the Region Should Ease Abortion Restrictions

Women’s rights demonstrators take part in a protest in front of National Congress while an abortion bill is debated in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 10.

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