Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LAKHANI Nina
A high school student was convicted on the grounds that failing to seek antenatal care amounted to murder, after giving birth in a bathroom in 2016.
A teenage rape victim in El Salvador has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder after having a stillbirth, the latest in a long line of (…)
, by RAMOS Marlon
Imposing martial law to fight terrorism is a “fallacy,” according to Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, the lone dissenter in the landmark ruling of the Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of President Rodrigo Duterte’s martial law order in Mindanao.
The court spokesperson on Tuesday (…)
, by LAKHANI Nina
Parliamentary bill proposing to loosen draconian restrictions on abortion finds favour after religious groups, doctors and others voice public support.
El Salvador’s controversial law banning abortion in all circumstances, which has provoked ruthless miscarriages of justice, could be (…)
, by WATTS Jonathan
When Mirna Ramírez gave birth two months early, she was detained by the police, accused of attempted murder and jailed for 12 years. In El Salvador, where a draconian anti-abortion law holds sway, her story is an all too familiar one.
“It’s hard to talk about,” says Mirna Ramírez softly as (…)
, by BOUGHER Kathy
Guadalupe, pregnant at the age of 18 in El Salvador as the result of a rape, suffered obstetrical complications before she gave birth in the home where she worked as a domestic employee to a fetus that did not survive. After hours of hemorrhaging, her employer took her to the public hospital. (…)
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