WGNRR urgently calls on the national government of Morocco to stop harassing the Abortion Ship and to immediately allow its safe return to the Smir harbour to complete the mission. We demand that all women should have access to affordable, accessible, safe abortion i to ensure that no woman will die due to unsafe methods of abortion.
The Dominican Parliament is considering to change its penal code in ways that are very harmful to women, diminishing sanctions for violence, banning abortion completely, and reducing sanctions against incest and sexual harassment.
WHRD IC believes the detention, seizure and raid on the organization’s offices were arbitrary. They also consider the act of arresting and charging WONETHA’s staff members as an attempt to criminalize the legal activities of a women human rights organization. WHRD IC assert that this behaviour is based solely on discrimination against sex workers, the community WONETHA serves.
Intisar Sharif Abdallah was sentenced by Judge Sami Ibrahim Shabo at Ombada criminal court in Omdurman on 22 April on charges of adultery, under article 146A of Sudan’s criminal code. She was accused of having a relationship and becoming pregnant by a man who was not her husband. She was found guilty after an “admission of guilt” following torture and brutal beatings by her brother who instigated the case. According to reports, Intisar did not have access to a lawyer during her trial, and her accused lover remains un-convicted and walks free. Besides, Intisar, who has three children, is being detained with her newborn baby. In addition, she has a limited knowledge of Arabic and was denied a translator in court, an Amnesty International report stated.
WGNRR is pleased to know the step you are taking to uphold sexual and reproductive health and rights and justice in Rwanda. We applaud the recent approval by your cabinet of the draft Presidential Order lifting the reservation made by Rwanda to the 2003 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
We encourage the Turkish government to retract these statements and to take necessary measures to ensure fulfilment its international duties in relation to access to reproductive health, including access to safe abortion, in accordance with the international treaties and human rights standards, as well Cairo and Beijing Conferences and Action Plans.
The delay to take positive action has cost thousands of women’s lives; and continues to restrict access to holistic healthcare for African women and girls. Today, we stand together with women and girls all across Africa saying NO to further delay and YES to affirmative action towards recognition, respect, protection, and fulfilment of women’s sexual and reproductive rights.
By defunding Planned Parenthood, the Komen Foundation publicly proclaims that these women no longer matter; that women’s health is no longer a priority for them. This move only serves to further endanger women’s lives by severely restricting their access to healthcare, based on arbitrary reasoning and weak justifications.
