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Human Rights Watch Work on Sexual Autonomy Comments to the Malawi Law Commission on the development of HIV and AIDS Legislation HRW sumbits comments to the Law Commission about its report on HIV and AIDS legislation, alerting the Commission to potential concerns and assisting it to strengthen the human rights protections provided by the proposed legislation. June 24, 2008 Legal Submissions Printer friendly version A Vital Choice By Angela Heimburger and Tamara Taraciuk Published in Proceso Mexico City’s abortion law gives women a vital choice. For some, the ability to exercise this choice may mean the difference between life and death. The upcoming Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of this law will determine if all women and girls in the capital can continue to access abortion services in bona fide medical facilities with qualified professionals under sanitary conditions, or some will be forced to revert to unsafe and often hazardous practices with unlicensed practitioners in clandestine clinics, pharmacies or marketplaces. May 19, 2008 Commentary Also available in 
Printer friendly version Written Testimony to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the Human Rights Concerns of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Accurate and objective sexual education is critical to advancing public health and promoting human rights. This fact is widely accepted within the international community and is supported by the provisions of fundamental human rights instruments. Indeed, the current federal policy of funding abstinence-only programs while failing to fund comprehensive sexuality education raises serious human rights concerns. Federal abstinence-only programs threaten a number of basic human rights, including the rights to health, information, and nondiscrimination. April 30, 2008 Written Statement Printer friendly version Perpetual Minors Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia
HRW Index No.: 1-56432-307-2 April 20, 2008 Report Also available in 
Download PDF, 357 KB, 52 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release For Nicaraguans, International Women’s Day Marks a Step Back By Angela Heimburger and Lance Lattig Until recently, Nicaraguan women had something to celebrate on March 8, International Women’s Day. Nicaraguan women have fought for years to protect women’s rights, not to restrict them, and decades ago the government eliminated some of the sexist laws that discriminated against women. March 8, 2008 Commentary Also available in
Printer friendly version Do or Die: Learn to Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace By Marianne Mollmann, Advocacy Director, Women's Rights Division Published in The Huffington Post I am a failure. Not because of an early divorce, or a failure to learn Chinese. Not even because, after 15 years abroad, I sometimes sound like a foreigner when speaking my native Danish language. All of those things, while potentially uncomfortable or painful, are the consequences of choices I have made. I am a failure because I have not been able to create equality in my own relationship -- despite being defined by my business card as a "women's rights advocate." February 22, 2008 Commentary Printer friendly version Mexico: Effective Action Needed by Human Rights Body Commission Documents Abuses, but Falls Short Promoting Remedies and Reform Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission seriously limits its impact by not effectively promoting remedies and reforms needed to end abusive practices, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. February 13, 2008 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Iran: Investigate Detention Deaths Two Alleged Prison Suicides Raise Suspicion Iranian authorities should investigate the sudden deaths of two people while in custody in northwestern Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. January 18, 2008 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Saudi Arabia: Rape Victim Punished for Speaking Out Court Doubles Sentence for Victim, Bans Her Lawyer From the Case A court in Saudi Arabia doubled its sentence of lashings for a rape victim who had spoken out in public about her case and her efforts to seek justice, Human Rights Watch said today. The court also harassed her lawyer, banning him from the case and confiscating his professional license. November 16, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Abortion ban killing women By Lance Lattig and Angela Heimburger Published in Miami Herald A year after elections in Nicaragua returned Daniel Ortega to power, scores of pregnant women have died, many as a consequence of a new law that prohibits doctors from providing lifesaving treatment. October 22, 2007 Commentary Also available in
Printer friendly version Nicaragua: New Abortion Ban Puts Women’s Lives at Risk President Ortega Should Show Leadership by Protecting Women s Lives Nicaragua’s blanket ban on abortion, which criminalizes life-saving medical treatment, has had a devastating impact on women’s health and lives, Human Rights Watch said today in the first-ever report on the human rights consequences of the ban, which was enacted in November 2006. October 2, 2007 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Nicaragua: Blanket Ban on Abortion Harms Women Women Afraid to Seek Life-Saving Treatment Nicaragua’s new blanket ban on abortion – even in cases of rape, incest or life-threatening pregnancy – violates international human rights standards and poses a grave risk to women, Human Rights Watch said today in an open letter to the country’s Supreme Court. August 30, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version SADC Gender and Development Protocol: How it can Save Lives By Nada Ali, Women's Rights Division Africa researcher Published in Zambia Daily Mail TODAY, the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) meet in Lusaka to discuss – among other issues – a key weapon in the war on poverty and disease: women’s equality. August 16, 2007 Commentary Printer friendly version Letter to EU Foreign Ministers on EU-Libya Relations EU governments should make human rights a priority in this "new era" of EU-Libya relations. August 2, 2007 Letter Printer friendly version Access to Contraceptives Promotes Abortion? By Marianne Mollmann, Women's Rights Advocacy Director Published in The Huffington Post In the last five years, I have interviewed hundreds of women in developing countries regarding their access to reproductive health care. To the best of my knowledge, President Bush has not. June 25, 2007 Commentary Also available in
Printer friendly version Reproductive health is the right of all The decision of a female judge in Ushuaia, who suspended free distribution of emergency contraceptive pills, is based in scientific ignorance By Angela Heimburger, Wayne Shields, and Beth Jordan Published in Clarin Women in Tierra del Fuego now have fewer options to prevent pregnancy and risk giving birth to unwanted children than they did a month ago. Thanks to a judge in Ushuaia, poor women and adolescents in this province no longer have access to emergency contraceptive pills. But the ruling, to suspend free distribution of these pills via the public health sector, is based on scientific ignorance and will have dire consequences for the health and well-being of poor Argentinian women. May 24, 2007 Commentary Also available in
Printer friendly version On the Pill Emergency Contraception in Chile By Angela Heimburger, Wayne Shields, and Beth Jordan Published in La Nación (Chile) A legal attack on a hormone now underway in Chile will help determine whether Chilean teenagers – and older women – are more or less likely to give birth to unwanted children. A group of Chilean parliamentarians is currently seeking to derail Chile’s state-of-the-art medical protocols regarding emergency contraception. But their efforts are fuelled by scientific ignorance and could have dire consequences for Chilean women’s health and well being. May 16, 2007 Commentary Also available in
Printer friendly version World Bank: New Policies Backslide on Family Planning Open Letter to the Board of Directors of the World Bank We are deeply concerned with reports that the draft Health, Nutrition and Population Strategy for the World Bank, which we understand the Bank’s board will review in mid-April 2007, misses the opportunity to support access to family planning and contraception as keys to combating global poverty. This potential omission stands in sharp contrast to the World Bank’s World Development Report of 2007, which emphasizes access to comprehensive sex education, contraception, and safe abortion as essential to reducing poverty. We urge you to ensure that the Bank’s health strategy reflects this crucial link explicitly. April 16, 2007 Letter Printer friendly version World Bank: New Policies Backslide on Family Planning Continued Support for Access to Contraceptives, Safe Abortion Crucial to Development By failing to explicitly support continued access to family planning and contraception, new World Bank policies, as drafted, would undermine a key strategy in the fight against global poverty, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the bank’s board of directors. April 16, 2007 Press Release Printer friendly version Mexico DF: Decriminalize Abortion To Help Women Legislators Consider Better Access to Contraceptives and Abortion The Legislative Assembly of Mexico’s Federal District should support the partial decriminalization of abortion currently under consideration, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the deputies. March 30, 2007 Press Release Printer friendly version | |  | |
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