TAIWAN – Taiwan’s enduring controversies over abortion laws
… Nicaragua, Poland, El Salvador, and the United States. [Editor’s note: This last is not true.] The presence of laws restricting abortion in the Criminal Code also does not sit well …
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MEXICO – GIRE’s activities in the first three months of 2025
… del Caso Beatriz vs. El Salvador” (Analysis of the Beatriz vs. El Salvador case, in English), coordinated by Leticia Bonifaz and which took place at UNAM on February 19. We …
DKT 2024 Health Impact & Sales Results Newsletter
… El Salvador and the Dominican Republic (DR), and emergency contraception in Guatemala and the DR. We take this opportunity to thank the many partners, colleagues, donors, and DKT team members …
LATIN AMERICA: “I can be part of the change”: physicians in the fight for safe abortion in Latin America!
… las mujeres y otras personas con posibilidad de gestar en Latinoamérica. A través de un viaje de experiencias y aprendizajes en países diversos como Argentina, México, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, …
EL SALVADOR – InterAmerican Court of Human Rights: Case of Beatriz et al. v. El Salvador +++ Concurring and partially dissenting opinion of Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto
… ruling in the case Beatriz and Others v. El Salvador, holding the Salvadoran State accountable for violating Beatriz’s human rights. One of the five judges who heard the case, Judge …
ECUADOR, NICARAGUA, PERU – Recent rulings on the sexual violation of six girls and refusal of abortion, one by the OHCHR Committee on the Rights of the Child, two by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and three by the UN Human Rights Committee, all regarding pregnancies in adolescence resulting from sexual violation and refused abortions because they were illegal, offer hope
… consent and the exercise of freedoms concerning their SRHR. – Inter-American Court of Human Rights – Manuela v. El Salvador: In 2021, the Court determined the violation of the rights …
EL SALVADOR – Beatriz: Court faults El Salvador for denying a mother’s access to abortion, violating her rights
… El Salvador responsible for violating the rights of Beatriz, whose name was an international byword in the abortion rights movement in Latin America for years. She was a young Salvadoran …
CENTRAL AMERICA – Introducing safe uterine evacuation products to markets in Central America
… and legally available in Guatemala and Nicaragua. DKT has also registered a new misoprostol brand in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. A key implementation component has …
EL SALVADOR – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights judgment in the case of Beatriz et al v. El Salvador
… explicitly. Additionally, the remedies they offered seemed somewhat weak… Still, achieving condemnation of the State of El Salvador was no small feat. Beatriz et al. v. El Salvador Judgment by …
CASO BEATRIZ Y OTROS VS. EL SALVADOR – The case of Beatriz and others vs. El Salvador
… interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en El Salvador, lo que presuntamente impidió que tuviera la posibilidad de acceder a una interrupción legal, temprana y oportuna al tratarse de una situación de …
EL SALVADOR – Beatriz v. El Salvador: the abortion case that could still set a legal precedent across Latin America
Morena Herrara. Photo: R Sura/EPA-EFE/Rex In El Salvador, abortion can be punished by up to eight years in prison, and women can even be charged with aggravated homicide, which carries …
GUATEMALA & NICARAGUA – DKT International: Increasing access to safe abortion and post-abortion care
… mifepristone and misoprostol in Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama – as well as throughout South America. For more information about DKT’s work …
FIGO – Fostering a supportive and non-judgmental environment for women seeking abortion care
… pivotal information for the constitutional court while debating the unconstitutionality of criminalising abortion, leading to the ultimate decision to liberalise abortion by request up to 24 weeks. In El Salvador, …
CHILE – Failure of the law to grant access to legal abortion in Chile
… on abortion in El Salvador and Nicaragua, where people involved in suspected abortions can be punished for up to 8 years in prison. This regional variation underscores the intricate interplay …
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL – An Unstoppable Movement: A global call to recognize and protect those who defend the right to abortion
… poorest women, those most likely to suffer harms.” Said an El Salvador obstetrician. SOURCE: Amnesty International, 24 November 2023 + PHOTO: © Chepa Beltran/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty …
Young Activists for Abortion: Global Meeting
… abortion entirely, like the model that and some states of Australia have now. While on the other hand, in El Salvador, which had absolute criminalisation of abortion, the bandana said …