El Salvador: The Trial Court of Sonsonate granted provisional freedom to Flor Arely Sánchez, a woman who was charged with aggravated homicide after suffering a premature delivery and who faces up to 40 years in prison. This represents the first time a court has provided a measure of this type.

Peru: General elections (president and Congress).

UN: 12 countries denounced El Salvador’s total criminalization of abortion as part of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review.

Argentina: The Center for Legal and Social Studies, Amnesty International, and the Latin American Group for Gender and Justice filed a lawsuit to require the Ministry of Health to ensure necessary medical services for the practice of legal abortion nationwide.

Addis Ababa Declaration on Accelerating the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action: Declaration issued by African government ministers responsible for gender and women’s affairs. The declaration calls on states to “expand the provision of family planning services and contraceptives and access to safe and legal abortion services in accordance with national laws and policies, and protect the reproductive rights of women by authorizing medical abortion in the case of sexual assault, rape, incest, in line with the Maputo Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.”

Brazil: Second-term inauguration of President Rousseff (Workers’ Party). For her second term, she had a considerably weaker mandate.

El Salvador: Congress approved a pardon for one of Las 17, Guadalupe, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison after having a miscarriage. 

Argentina: The technical guide for non-punishable abortion care was revised, including several changes to its content and a different title.

El Salvador: Carmelina Pérez was declared innocent after a hearing in a court in the city of La Unión. She had been sentenced to 30 years in prison for homicide after suffering a miscarriage.

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: The commission issued a formal letter to the Salvadoran government requesting a response to a petition filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Citizens’ Coalition for the Decriminalization of Abortion, and the Feminist Collective for Local Development in March 2010 regarding the Manuela Case.