The Council of Europe’s latest report on the human rights of Roma and Travellers is an invaluable study. The onus to use it to improve the lives of Europeans who are also Roma still rests with national governments.
Posts Tagged “forced sterilization”
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Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: anti-Gypsyism, Cecilia Malmstrom, Charter of Fundamental Rights, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, EU policy, European Union, forced sterilization, freedom of movement, Fundamental Rights Agency, László Andor, Martin Demirovski, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE, racially motivated violence, reconciliation committee, Roma, Roma Europe, Roma Inclusion, Roma Platform, statelessness, The Human rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe, Thomas Hammarberg, Travellers, truth commissions
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Medical studies show that performing genital reshaping surgery on intersex children at birth or soon after usually causes psychological damage to patients. Yet this remains the standard of care in most countries, despite protests from patient advocates.
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Women are sterilized without their knowledge or consent on various fallacious grounds. In some cases, proponents defend this practice as necessary to protect women. Nowhere is this argument invoked more than in the case of women with disabilities.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, Disability Rights Initiative, European Court of Human Rights, forced sterilization, intellectual disability, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, mental health, public health, reproductive health, reproductive rights, Tirza Leibowitz, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, women
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Advocates scored a major legal victory when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that forced sterilization is a violation of the right to be free from torture or inhuman and degrading treatment. This groundbreaking judgment is a step forward for efforts to bring justice to the potentially...
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Health facilities are mandated to provide care, especially to society’s most vulnerable people. When hospitals and clinics allow forced and coerced sterilizations, these facilities become places of abuse and torture.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Governance & Accountability, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bangladesh, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, disability rights, forced sterilization, France, HIV/AIDS, intellectual disability, Lydia Guterman, Namibia, Peru, public health, reproductive rights, Roma, torture, United States, women, World Medical Association
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Thanks to ongoing advocacy by transgender rights activists, lawmakers in the Netherlands will draft legislation that removes the requirement for transgender people to undergo surgery and sterilization as a precondition for changing their gender.
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The complicity of medical professionals in the abuse and torture of prisoners has been well documented. What is less recognized, though, is how state-sponsored violations of human rights can undermine medical professionalism in day-to-day clinical practice.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: American Medical Association, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, Farrah Matteen, forced sterilization, health care, Leonard Rubenstein, medical professionalism, pain relief, palliative care, Peru, public health, torture
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New guidelines bring us one step closer to ending the forced sterilization of women. Now governments need to put the guidelines into practice, to ensure that health care providers protect the rights of all women.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Health, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, forced sterilization, HIV/AIDS, human rights, International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, marginalized groups, North Carolina, public health, reproductive rights, Roma, Roma health, Tamar Ezer, women
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For marginalized people worldwide, contact with health facilities is too often characterized by physical abuse, insults, invasion of privacy, forced medical procedures, or denial of treatment. This amounts to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment—and in some cases, torture.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, detention, drug policy, drug users, forced sterilization, Francoise Girard, Health, HIV/AIDS, human rights, law and health, mental health, pain relief, public health, Roma, torture, video
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V. C. was just twenty years old when she was sterilized after giving birth in a Slovakian hospital. She claims her Roma ethnicity played a vital role in her sterilization. Next week, the European Court of Human Rights will hear the case.