World Meeting of Families held in Philadelphia.

Peru: Presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori stated in a presentation at Harvard University that she supports same-sex civil unions, opposes adoption by same-sex couples, and opposes abortion. She stated that the only circumstance in which she supports abortion is to save a woman’s life.

Inter-American human rights system: Public Hearing Addressing Restrictions on Emergency Contraception at the 149th Period of Sessions of the Commission.

Colombia: Presentation of a bill, 147/13 S, seeking to create a sexual and reproductive rights observatory whose aim is to “analyze, identify, and select the variables that should be contained in the system of demographic statistics and which must be taken into account for the design, development, implementation, and evaluation and monitoring of public policies on women’s sexual and reproductive health, as well as the identification of the causes of maternal morbidity and mortality, teenage pregnancy, and diseases related to sexual and reproductive health.”

Inter-American human rights system: The Feminist Collective for Local Development in El Salvador, the Citizens’ Coalition for the Decriminalization of Abortion, IPAS Central America, and the Center for Justice and International Law filed a lawsuit against El Salvador before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging the violation of Beatriz’s human rights.

Bolivia: Decision 0206/2014 issued, eliminating barriers to access to safe abortion for victims of sexual violence and in cases of therapeutic abortion.

El Salvador: Salvador Sánchez Cerén (FMLN) elected president in the run-off.

El Salvador: The archbishop of El Salvador, a key actor in the 1997 process regarding the absolute abortion ban, made newspaper headlines after calling on candidates to commit to legislating against abortion. At the peak of the electoral campaign, the then president Mauricio Funes (FMLN) declared his opposition to abortion.

Peru: The archbishop of Lima, Juan Luis Cipriani, called for a referendum to determine the legality of therapeutic abortion and same-sex unions.

El Salvador: The Citizens’ Coalition for the Decriminalization of Abortion, with the support of international human rights organizations and following in the footsteps of the feminist organization Las Libres de México, launched the campaign known as Las 17. This campaign involves 17 pardon requests presented on behalf of women who have been unjustly convicted of homicide after suffering obstetric emergencies late in their pregnancies.