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.
Posts Tagged “reproductive rights”
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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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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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A U.S. organization plans to pay HIV-positive women in Kenya to use long-term birth control, claiming it is the only way to prevent transmission to children. Four experts respond.