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Home » Trial and imprisonment

Topic: Trial and imprisonment

News | 28 September 2023

GREAT BRITAIN – Calls to change archaic abortion law as fifth woman faces prosecution

Topic: Law reform Third trimester abortion Trial and imprisonment | Region: UK | Theme: Advocacy Law |
News | 21 September 2023

POLAND – Abortion witchhunt targets women and doctors

Topic: Criminalisation Trial and imprisonment | Region: Poland | Theme: Adolescents & youth Human rights Social justice |
News | 7 September 2023

RWANDA – Rwanda: imprisoning girls and women for abortion, pardoning and releasing some of them, then imprisoning some more and later releasing some of them, and so on and on…

Topic: Criminalisation Trial and imprisonment | Region: Rwanda | Theme: Law Opposition to abortion |
News | 7 September 2023

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child – 94th Session

Topic: Criminalisation Trial and imprisonment Unsafe abortion | Region: Dominican Republic | Theme: Advocacy Human rights Law |
News | 1 September 2023

ANDORRA – Urgent solidarity action: Sign the Amnesty International petition!

Topic: Criminalisation Trial and imprisonment | Region: Andorra | Theme: Solidarity request |
News | 1 September 2023

VENEZUELA – Two women among nine cases of victims of politically motivated, arbitrary detentions

Topic: Trial and imprisonment | Region: Venezuela | Theme: Human rights Social justice |
News | 11 August 2023

PERU – Peru violated child rape victim’s rights by failing to guarantee access to abortion and criminally prosecuting her for self-abortion, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child finds

Topic: Trial and imprisonment | Region: Peru | Theme: Adolescents & youth Human rights Law |
News | 5 August 2023

HONDURAS – Women risk imprisonment and death as they seek reproductive care; but the fight for change is gaining momentum

Topic: Trial and imprisonment | Region: Honduras |
News | 28 July 2023

POLAND – “Undress, squat, cough”: an innocent victim of the criminalisation of abortion

Topic: Abortion complications Criminalisation Trial and imprisonment | Region: Poland | Theme: Human rights Law Solidarity request |
News | 28 July 2023

USA – Texas women give harrowing testimony on impact of state’s extreme abortion ban +++ 19-year-old charged in northeast Nebraska late abortion case gets 90 days in jail

Topic: Trial and imprisonment | Region: USA | Theme: Adolescents & youth Advocacy Law Migration |
News | 28 July 2023

ENGLAND – Young woman, 22, criminally charged with ‘procuring poison’ to abort her pregnancy

Topic: Trial and imprisonment | Region: UK | Theme: Adolescents & youth Law |
News | 21 July 2023

USA – Madame Restell, and the history of abortion in America +++ The dark money fight against abortion access +++ Threats against abortion rights activists +++ How to get abortion pills in every US state

Topic: Criminalisation Maternal deaths Telemedicine Trial and imprisonment | Region: USA | Theme: Campaigns Human rights Opposition to abortion |
News | 21 July 2023

UK: STOP PRESS – Carla Foster released from prison and her sentence suspended on appeal

Topic: Trial and imprisonment | Region: UK | Theme: Law |
News | 13 July 2023

USA – Multiple Reports

Topic: Abortion complications Criminalisation Law reform Self Managed Abortion Trial and imprisonment | Region: USA | Theme: Adolescents & youth Law Migration Opposition to abortion |
News | 7 July 2023

ENGLAND – Girl age 15 who didn’t know she was pregnant sentenced at age 19 to a minimum of 12 years in prison for murder of the newborn baby  

Topic: Trial and imprisonment | Region: UK | Theme: Adolescents & youth Law |
News | 7 July 2023

UNITED KINGDOM / POLAND – Until restrictive abortion laws change, women will continue to suffer

Topic: Abortion deaths Consciencious objection Trial and imprisonment | Region: Poland UK | Theme: Advocacy Human rights Law |
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