“No Going Back”. A case study of sexual and gender minorities in India and their legal mobilisation

Kolmannskog, Vikram (2016)

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 3.8

This paper explores the legal mobilisation in India against section 377, the anti-sodomy legislation originally introduced by the British. The first part explores the legal mobilisation as experienced by sexual and gender minority activists themselves. In the second part, some themes that have emerged as important are discussed in light of existing research and literature […]

Perils and Possibilities: Reflections on the Use of Scientific Evidence in Abortion Court Cases and Why the Public Health Community Should Care

Emily Maistrellis, Victoria Chia and Alicia El Yamin (2016)

Harvard FXB Center Working Paper

As state legislatures across the United States usher in health-justified abortion restrictions, courts are increasingly called upon to analyze the effects of these laws on women’s rights, and to evaluate the role that empirical evidence should play in this analysis. Examples from a systematic review of 70 state and federal cases challenging the constitutionality of […]

Constitutional developments in Latin American abortion law

Bergallo, Paola, and Agustina Ramón Michel (2016)

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 135.2 (2016): 228-231.

For most of the 20th Century, restrictive abortion laws were in place in continental Latin America. In recent years, reforms have caused a liberalizing shift, supported by constitutional decisions of the countries’ high courts. The present article offers an overview of the turn toward more liberal rules and the resolution of abortion disputes by reference […]

Kendra Dupuy

Global Fellow

Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Oslo

International diplomacy and African LGBTI Rights – Launch of Unit on Gender, Sexuality and the Law

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, and Intersex (LGBTI) rights have become central to the West’s human rights agenda in Africa. Still, Western countries respond very differently to LGBT rights abuse in Africa. Assistant Professor Michael Wahman (University of Missouri) will give a presentation of his recent research on LGBTI rights, international diplomacy and leverage on the […]

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Latin America and the Caribbean
Peru
Yes
Abortion
Advance
Statement by a national authority
08-2016
Peru: Three female state ministers (health, women’s affairs, and justice) stated that the morning-after pill is not an abortifacient.

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UN System
Regional Americas
Yes
Abortion
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UN recommendation/declaration
04-2016
The Pan American Health Organization issued the document “Zika Ethics Consultation: Ethics Guidance on Key Issues Raised by the Outbreak,” which states that women have a right to decide to continue with their pregnancies in the context of the Zika outbreak, pointing out that governments have an ethical responsibility to allow women to decide among all relevant reproductive options, including access to contraception and abortion.

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Latin America and the Caribbean
El Salvador
Yes
Abortion
Advance
Court ruling
05-2016
El Salvador: Flor Arely González was acquitted of aggravated homicide by the Trial Court of Sonsonate, an offense that she had been charged with after suffering an obstetric emergency in mid-2015.