News | 7 August 2026 SOUTH KOREA / ITALY – Court Upholds Block on Women on Web’s Abortion Pill Website Access + + + + ITALY is blocking access to web-based abortion information by Women on Web and Women Help Women and so are many other countries
News | 25 July 2026 SOUTH KOREA – South Korea blocks oral abortion pill approval even though 101 countries allow its use +++ Abortion legislation returns to spotlight after 7-year limbo: President’s remarks on abortion pill put long-stalled legislation back in focus
News | 31 January 2026 SOUTH KOREA – Despite ban removal, women’s access to abortion pills faces legal void in Korea +++ More than 40 percent of men and women in South Korea believe in women’s right to get an abortion on demand, a recent survey showed +++ More parents taking parental leave +++ Prosecutors seek prison terms in 36-week abortion case
News | 6 November 2025 SOUTH KOREA – 28 SEPTEMBER 2025 ACTIVITY: Head of Korean human rights watchdog flip-flops on abortion rights ahead of GANHRI special review
News | 8 August 2025 SOUTH KOREA – Five/six years on, abortion pill Mifegymiso still stalled in Korea’s regulatory limbo
News | 29 November 2024 STERILISATION REVERSAL? – The facts about sterilisation reversal for both women and men
News | 27 September 2024 SOUTH KOREA – A young woman claimed in a vlog that she had had an abortion at 36 weeks
News | 28 June 2024 CEDAW – UN Women’s Rights Committee publishes findings on Brazil, Estonia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Montenegro, Republic of Korea, Rwanda and Singapore
News | 17 September 2021 SOUTH KOREA – Joint Action for Reproductive Justice challenges Korean College of Obstetrics & Gynecology for trying to delay approval of abortion pill combi-pack on spurious grounds
News | 6 August 2021 SOUTH KOREA – Abortion consultation now in public health insurance, but women need funded services too
News | 14 April 2021 SOUTH KOREA/THAILAND – Decriminalisation: Reimagining Legal Change: A Webinar on 24 March 2021
News | 8 January 2021 ARGENTINA / SOUTH KOREA – Working Group on Discrimination against Women & Girls & Special Rapporteurs: Letters to the governments of Argentina and South Korea
