Demonstrating against the abortion ban in Nicaragua, 28 September 2011 (c) Fondo Centro Americano de Mujeres
By Stephanie Schlitt, Amnesty International’s Researcher and Policy Advisor on Gender
Today, at the United Nations General Assembly, the UN’s expert on the right to health, Anand Grover, will present a ground-breaking report. The report exposes how states are putting women’s and girls’ lives and health at risk through criminal laws and other misguided legal restrictions that deny girls and women access to sexual and reproductive health information and services and the ability to make decisions about their sexual and reproductive lives.
The report concludes that restrictions on abortion and contraception, the criminalization of pregnant women’s conduct (such as making drug use when pregnant a criminal offence), as well as restrictions on access to information on sexual and reproductive health violate girls’ and women’s rights to sexual and reproductive health. This report supports earlier UN expert findings that such laws place states in breach of their international human rights obligations. Continuar leyendo ‘Rights – not criminalization – for girls and women, says UN health expert’ »
Every day, countless people are forcibly evicted without legal safeguards © Nora Lindström
By Meghna Abraham, Head of the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Team at Amnesty International
You come home in the evening, after a long day’s work. Your children are sitting at a table, finishing their homework. Suddenly, some government officials arrive with a bulldozer to demolish your home.
You may have had a week’s notice, or a day or none at all. You did not have enough time to legally challenge the eviction or even to make a list of the belongings which you may lose.
Continuar leyendo ‘Human rights live here – stopping forced evictions worldwide’ »
El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU se reune hoy para discutir la situación en Siria © Demotix
Por Salil Shetty, secretario general de Amnistía Internacional
Majd al Kurdy era miembro de la sección del Partido Baás, partido gobernante en Siria, en la pequeña localidad de Tell Kalakh, cerca de la frontera con Líbano.
Un día de mayo, en una manifestación contra el gobierno, cogió un megáfono y dijo a la multitud “¡Os anuncio que dimito del corrupto Partido Baás!”
Continuar leyendo ‘El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU debe actuar para poner fin a la represión en Siria’ »
The UN Security Council meets to discuss the situation in Syria today © Demotix
By Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International
Majd Al Kurdy was a junior member of Syria’s ruling Baath party in the small town of Tell Kalakh near the border with Lebanon.
One day in May, at an anti-government demonstration, he took a megaphone and announced to the crowd “I announce my resignation from the corrupt Ba’th Party!”
Continuar leyendo ‘UN Security Council must act to end repression in Syria’ »
