by HRWF | Sep 19, 2022 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Hungary tightens abortion law by decree In a sign of the extreme-right flexing its muscles, Hungary’s government amended the law to now require women requesting an abortion to prove they have seen the foetus’s vital signs. Reporting Democracy (13.09.2022)...
by HRWF | May 5, 2021 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Newsline (16.04.2021) – https://bit.ly/3ejcnog – In an interview with Le Monde, the political scientist Bérengère Marques-Pereira worried about violations of abortion rights in Europe and condemned the “ethical political colonization” of the Catholic...
by HRWF | Dec 8, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
By Daina Beth Solomon & Cassandra Garrison Reuters (01.12.2020) – https://reut.rs/3orDvUe – Several weeks pregnant and about to start a job away from home, Lupita Ruiz had no doubts about wanting to end her pregnancy, despite knowing she could...
by HRWF | Nov 2, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Policies criminalize and punish pregnant women outside of wedlock. By Rothna Begum HRW (27.10.2020) – https://bit.ly/3egMN1H – On October 2, Qatari authorities removed 13 women from an Australia-bound Qatar Airways flight and subjected them...
by HRWF | Nov 2, 2020 | LGBTQI People and Human Rights
Right-wing U.S. groups have put more than $280 million into campaigns against LGBT+ rights and abortion worldwide since 2007, almost $90 million of which focused on Europe. By Rachel Savage Thomson Reuters Foundation (27.10.2020) –...