TIME00444

TIME00444
International bodies
ESCR Committee
No
Abortion
Advance
UN recommendation/declaration
05-2016
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: General Comment No. 22 on the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health – “States parties are under immediate obligation to eliminate discrimination against individuals and groups and to guarantee their equal right to sexual and reproductive health. This requires States to repeal or reform laws and policies that nullify or impair the ability of certain individuals and groups to realize their right to sexual and reproductive health. There exists a wide range of laws, policies and practices that undermine autonomy and right to equality and non-discrimination in the full enjoyment of the right to sexual and reproductive health, for example criminalization of abortion or restrictive abortion laws.”