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.
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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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A new law in Malawi finally gives women the right to inherit her husband's estate. In the past, widows and their children were often left with nothing after in-laws took possession of property and valuables. Women’s economic disempowerment has been particularly problematic in the shadow of AIDS.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: economic equity, HIV/AIDS, housing rights, inheritance rights, law and health, legal reform, Malawi, public health, Tamar Ezer, women, Women's Inheritance Now
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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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Women’s participation is critical in reconciliation and reconstruction efforts, as the work of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee has shown. Yet the immense resources women can bring to peace-building remain largely untapped.
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This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was a refreshing acknowledgment of courageous female leaders who are struggling for a peaceful way forward where women and men are provided equal opportunities to flourish in society.
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In this interview, actress and playwright Alina Serban discusses the relationship between her work and her identity as a Roma woman.
Posted in: Europe, Media & Arts, Rights & Justice
Topics: Alina Serban, Barvalipe, Rachel Hart, Roma, Romania, theater, video, women
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In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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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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Sixteen years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, survivors of rape and torture continue to suffer lasting trauma. One local organization, an Open Society grantee, is working to ensure that these women receive reparations and to prevent future violence.
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: Bosnia & Herzegovina, domestic violence, Marla Swanson, Mima Dahic, sexual violence, women
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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