Malta – 2022 in review: A health crisis that sparked an abortion debate2

Malta’s blanket abortion ban has been questioned many times in the past... but 2022 saw its most serious challenge yet

Claudia Calleja
Jan 1, 2023

Abortion: a word that is guaranteed to spark a tense debate. Throughout the years, Malta has been nudged into considering its introduction but has held firm against. In 2013, the International Commission of Jurists told the UN that Malta’s blanket ban on abortion puts women at risk of torture and cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment. Nothing happened.

Three years later, the UNs Committee on the Rights of the Child recommended the decriminalisation of abortion “in all circumstances”, urging the government to ensure adolescent girls have “access to safe abortion and post-abortion care services”. Several international appeals persisted, including from the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights. Nothing happened.

Continued: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/2022-review-health-crisis-sparked-abortion-debate.1004578

Human Rights Watch Amicus Curiae in the case of Guzmán Albarracín y otros Vs. Ecuador

Human Rights Watch
July 15, 2020

Human Rights Watch respectfully requests that the Honorable Inter-American Court of Human Rights accept us as Friends of the Court, so that we may submit for consideration this statement briefly summarizing Human Rights Watch research and legal analysis of children’s rights issues relevant to the case of Guzmán Albarracín vs. Ecuador.

The case before the court pertains to the sexual exploitation and abuse of Paola Guzmán Albarracín by state officials in the public school she attended. Guzmán Albarracín became pregnant after her school’s vice principal sexually abused her, following which he asked her to get an abortion in the school’s medical service. When she sought an abortion from the school’s doctor, he agreed to help her only if he had sex with him. Guzmán Albarracín died by suicide in 2002 at age 16.

Continued: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/15/amicus-curiae-case-guzman-albarracin-y-otros-vs-ecuador

OPEN LETTER to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Heads of UN agencies & national leaders

OPEN LETTER to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Heads of UN agencies & national leaders
RE: International Safe Abortion Day, 28 September 2019

24 September 2019

Dear Secretary-General Guterres, international & national leaders,

We write to you as leaders of the United Nations and its agencies, and through our members to national leaders, to invite you to make a public statement from your own office/agency in support of International Safe Abortion Day, 28 September 2019. We also ask that the United Nations makes it an official UN Day.

International Safe Abortion Day has been celebrated since 1990, initially in Latin America. The date was chosen in commemoration of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. It was declared an international day in 2011. In 2012, events and activities took place in some 50 countries, rising within a few years to 60-65 countries across all continents. A growing number of national leaders and human rights bodies now recognise the day and speak out in support of its goals. Journalists are giving it more media space with every year that passes, drawing prominent national figures into the discussion.

Continued: https://mailchi.mp/safeabortionwomensright/open-letter-to-un-secretary-general-heads-of-un-agencies-national-leaders-international-safe-abortion-day-2019?e=372dd34034

24.09.2019

abortion is healthcare

António Guterres

CEDAW

Committee on Civil and Political Rights

Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights

Committee on the Rights of the Child

ICPD

ICPD Programme of Action 1994

International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion

International Safe Abortion Day

September 28

Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women of the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights

the Committee against Torture

UN High Commissioner on Human Rights

UN Secretary-General António Guterres

UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls

UN Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice

Ireland’s violation of International Abortion rights: A perpetual Déjà vu.

Ireland’s violation of International Abortion rights: A perpetual Déjà vu.
July 29, 2017
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We are pleased to welcome this guest post from Aisling McMahon and Brid Ni Ghrainne.

Abortion is only permitted in Ireland where the life of the mother is in danger, making the Irish abortion framework one of the most restrictive in the world. This week, the Committee Against Torture questioned Ireland about its lack of progress in reforming Irish abortion law[1] and stated that it must explain its human rights obligations to the Irish public before any referendum on abortion.[2] This comes as little surprise as the Irish framework has previously been criticised extensively by four other international human rights committees.[3]

Continued at source: Human Rights in Ireland: http://humanrights.ie/gender-sexuality-and-the-law/irelands-violation-of-international-abortion-rights-a-perpetual-deja-vu/