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.

Mexico: The Supreme Court initiated Action of Unconstitutionality 41/2013 presented by Tlaxcala’s Human Rights Commission demanding the derogation of article 243 of its Penal Code, which criminalizes abortion. In August, the action was suspended because the local congress approved reforms expanding the regime of exceptions for legal abortion.

Mexico: The local congress of the state of Tlaxcala reformed its Penal Code to expand the regime of exceptions to include genetic malformations or severe birth defects, although abortion still requires parental consent. Tlaxcala became the state with the most extensive regime of exceptions.

Peru: Congress rejected a bill to expand the legal grounds for abortion and to ensure rape victims’ access to abortion.

Colombia: The Council of State annulled the decrees restricting the sale of misoprostol.

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights called on the Ugandan government to reform and clarify its laws severely restricting abortion services.

Colombia: Constitutional Court Decision T-478/15 (Sergio Urrego Case) – The ruling prohibits schools from discriminating on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Colombia: Presentation of a bill (number 64/15) extending maternity leave to 18 weeks and paternity leave to 15 weeks.

Colombia: Presentation of a bill (number 55/15) seeking to regulate artificial insemination, thereby allowing IVF.

Colombia: Presentation of a bill (number 20/15 S) creating a sexual and reproductive rights observatory that will produce information on sexual and reproductive rights and develop public policies to address women’s sexual and reproductive health, maternal morbidity and mortality, and teenage pregnancy.