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Reproductive rights

News, comment and features on reproductive rights in developing countries 

April 2024

  • A crowd of women march along a street holding banners

    Women's right to choose
    Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban

    Petition filed on behalf of woman known as as Fausia, who underwent a forced pregnancy after being raped

March 2024

  • Members of feminist organizations demonstrate in favour of the decriminalization of abortion on International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City on September 28, 2023.

    Women's right to choose
    Meta and Google accused of restricting reproductive health information

  • Young white woman in black leans back as young Black women in pink appears to be yelling at her. They are surrounded by people holding protest signs and red balloons.

    Clashing convictions mark protests as US supreme court weighs abortion pill

  • A light-skinned pregnant belly, identified elsewhere as Asian, with sunlight and shadows on it, encircled by the woman's arms.

    States push ‘fetal personhood’ bills despite outrage at Alabama IVF ruling

  • In the dark, a group of young women wearing green face masks stand and kneel in front of a domed government building, holding neon (or lighted) images of coat hangers, candles circled with barbed wire, and the word "Adios."

    Rights and freedom
    ‘The stigma has returned’: abortion access in turmoil in Javier Milei’s Argentina

  • Biden calls on Congress to 'guarantee the right to IVF' in State of the Union address – video

  • France adds abortion rights to its constitution – video

February 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Tommy Tuberville and a rally showing a woman holding a sign that reads "IVF made me a mom"

    Alabama IVF ruling leaves Republicans stuck between their base and the broader public

  • A sea of mostly women wearing summer clothes holding signs that are mostly pink and white.

    Democrats target statehouse races in first big campaign spend of 2024

January 2024

  • Close-up of woman sitting with hands clasped on lap with hospital gown hitched up to upper thigh.

    Nearly 65,000 US rape victims could not get an abortion in their state, analysis shows

    Researchers estimated likely number of rape-related pregnancies in 14 states with near-total abortion bans since Dobbs ruling
  • A mobile clinic run by MSI Reproductive Choices in Uganda

    ‘Horrifying numbers’ of women and girls will die because of UK aid cuts, say MPs

    FCDO cuts hit most vulnerable hardest, report says, with girl in South Sudan more likely to die in childbirth than finish school
  • Black woman, shoulder-length hair, black suit, speaking into microphone on stage in front of red sign that says Restore Roe.

    Harris attacks Trump over Roe v Wade at first campaign rally with Biden

    Vice-president appeared Tuesday in Virginia with president, who warned ‘Maga Republicans … are hellbent on going even further’

December 2023

  • A group of largely female protesters, many in balaclavas wave placards and flags as a woman in the front

    Rights and freedom
    ‘They violated our rights’: Chile’s draft constitution fails women, say activists

    Last year, a liberal constitution to replace the Pinochet-era one was rejected. Now a referendum will be held on a new draft that curbs abortion rights and enshrines Catholic morality. Here, five women reflect on 2019’s protests and the struggle for equality

October 2023

  • Four African women with small babies wait in a tent

    Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

    Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds

September 2023

  • The Guardian documentary
    With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US

    Star is a Black midwife who helps Black women give birth in the comfort of their homes, in the state of Illinois. She is part of a long-established African-American tradition of home-birth midwifery, which is currently in a legal gray area across a number of US states, with midwives unable to obtain a license to practice. Despite this legal peril, and motivated by the high maternal mortality rate for Black women (which is nearly three times that of white women), Star continues in her role

August 2023

  • How Catholic-run Australian public hospitals refuse to provide abortions and contraception – video

    Publicly funded hospitals are using the cover of religion to opt out of providing reproductive care

July 2023

  • Katalin Novák speaks at the opening of the Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Gut-churning’: anger as Hungarian president addresses major women’s rights conference

  • A girl walks past to a wall painting about menstruation, at a school in Guwahati, India, on 28 May 2022. The Menstrual Hygiene Day raises awareness about the importance of managing good menstrual hygiene.

    ‘Miscarriage? Take sick leave’: global health organisations are failing their female staff

June 2023

  • Women holding green flags and posters at a demonstration in a city street

    Rights and freedom
    Peru violated rights of 13-year-old girl repeatedly raped by father, UN rules

  • Close-up image of a cardboard box labelled as an emergency reproductive health kit.

    Anguish as rape survivors in Sudan unable to access vital medication

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