Resources available at https://engenderights.com
1) Clara Rita A. Padilla, Policy Brief: Access to Safe and Legal Abortion and Post-Abortion Care Can Save Filipino Women’s Lives: EnGendeRights, December 2016, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/abortion/policy-brief-safe-and-legal-abortion/
2) Fact Sheets series entitled, “Safe and Legal Abortion Saves Women’s Lives”:
2.1) Clara Rita A. Padilla, Fact Sheet 1: Safe and Legal Abortion Saves Women’s Lives: Public Health Concerns and Social Costs of Lack of Access to Safe and Legal Abortion and Post-Abortion Care: EnGendeRights, December 2016, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/abortion/fact-sheet-1-public-health-concerns/
2.2) Clara Rita A. Padilla, Fact Sheet 2: Safe and Legal Abortion Saves Women’s Lives: Liberalizing Abortion Laws Will Save Women’s Lives: Asian, Predominantly Catholic Countries, and Former Spanish colonies Allowing safe and Legal Abortion; The Philippine Constitution Allows Access to Safe and Legal Abortion: EnGendeRights, December, 2016, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/abortion/fact-sheet-2-liberalizing-abortion-laws/
2.3) Clara Rita A. Padilla, Fact Sheet 3: Safe and Legal Abortion Saves Women’s Lives: Constitutional Guarantees, Comparative Law, International and Regional Human Rights Standards Support the Right to Safe and Legal Abortion: EnGendeRights, December 2016, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/abortion/fact-sheet-3/
3) Clara Rita A. Padilla and Anita B. Visbal, Saving Women’s Lives: National Policy on the Prevention and Management of Abortion Complications (DOH AO No. 2016-0041) – Frequently Asked Questions: EnGendeRights and Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (PINSAN), December 2017, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/abortion/saving-womens-lives/
4) Flyer providing information for women who need post-abortion care services (“Did you have an abortion? Are you bleeding?”), available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/abortion/did-you-have-an-abortion/
5) Poster: Post-Abortion Care-Friendly Health Facilities, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/abortion/pac-friendly-health-facilities/
Opinion Editorials of Atty. Clara Rita A. Padilla
1) Clara Rita A. Padilla, It’s time for the Philippines to decriminalize abortion: Rappler Thought Leaders, June 1, 2018, available at:
https://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/203572-time-decriminalize-abortion-philippines
2) Clara Rita A. Padilla, Should abortion for rape victims be legalized in PH?: Rappler, May 14, 2015, available at:
https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/93025-saving-women-lives-abortion-laws
3) Clara Rita A. Padilla, The reality of abortion in the Philippines: Rappler, Sept. 13, 2015, available at:
https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/105680-reality-abortion-philippines
4) Clara Rita A. Padilla, Abortion? Vote according to compassion, conscience: Rappler, January 26, 2016, available at:
https://www.rappler.com/views/imho/120278-vote-reason-compassion-conscience
News articles covering the work of Atty. Clara Rita A. Padilla/EnGendeRights
1) Gender Rights Lawyer Drafts Proposed Bill to Decriminalize Abortion, Manila Bulletin, June 1, 2020, available at:
https://mb.com.ph/2020/06/01/gender-rights-lawyer-drafts-proposed-bill-to-decriminalize-abortion/ [correct Aug. 26 2020]
2) Lawyer Prepares Draft Bill Decriminalizing Abortion, Earns Support and Condemnation, Coconuts Manila, June 2, 2020, available at:
https://coconuts.co/manila/news/lawyer-prepares-draft-bill-decriminalizing-abortion-earns-support-and-condemnation/
3) Duterte Told Therapeutic Abortion Allowed to Save Women’s Lives, Inquirer, July 26, 2017, available at:
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/917566/duterte-told-therapeutic-abortion-allowed-to-save-womens-lives
4) Women’s rights glaringly absent in Duterte’s 3rd SONA, GMA News Online, July 24, 2018, available at:
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/661607/women-s-rights-glaringly-absent-in-duterte-s-3rd-sona-advocacy-group/story/
5) Phl must consider access to safe & legal abortion, says EnGendeRights’ Padilla, Outrage, Sept. 18, 2015, available at:
https://outragemag.com/phl-must-consider-access-to-safe-legal-abortion-says-engenderights-padilla/
6) Unintended consequences of ECQ: Unplanned and unwanted pregnancies, ABS-CBN News, May 10, 2020, available at:
https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/multimedia/slideshow/05/10/20/unintended-consequences-of-ecq-unplanned-and-unwanted-pregnancies
Video interviews featuring Atty. Clara Rita A. Padilla/EnGendeRights
1) CNN Stouts’ interview of Atty. Padilla after the historic Ireland referendum vote, May 28, 2018, available at:
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/05/28/newsstream-abortion-philippines-stout-rita-padilla.cnn
Submissions for the 2016 CEDAW Committee Review on the Philippines
1) Center for Reproductive Rights, EnGendeRights, et al submission on reproductive rights dated June 7, 2016 for the 64th Session, available at:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CEDAW/Shared%20Documents/PHL/INT_CEDAW_NGO_PHL_24168_E.pdf
2) Center for Reproductive Rights, EnGendeRights, et al on reproductive rights submission dated Oct 2015 for the CEDAW Committee Pre Session, available at:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2fCEDAW%2fNGO%2fPHL%2f22354&Lang=en
Submissions for the Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review
1) Submission for the 3rd Universal Periodic Review (2016) by Sexual Rights Network (drafted by Atty. Clara Rita A. Padilla), available at:
https://www.upr-info.org/sites/default/files/document/philippines/session_27_-_may_2017/js13_upr27_phl_e_main.pdf C. Submissions for the Human Rights Committee
2) Center for Reproductive Rights, EnGendeRights, et al submission for the List of Issues on reproductive rights (Art. 6, 7, 17 and 26), January 13, 2020, available at:
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2fCCPR%2fICO%2fPHL%2f41017&Lang=en
Submissions for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
1) Center for Reproductive Rights, EnGendeRights, et al on lack of access to safe and legal abortion in the Philippines, January 31, 2020 in re Human Rights Council Resolution 41/2 (11 July 2019), available at:
http://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/FEATURE-Independent-Submission-to-OHCHR-on-Human-Rights-Violations-in-the-Philippines-related-to-Abortion.pdf
Women’s Rights Through CEDAW
1) Clara Rita A. Padilla, A Call for Philippine Implementation of Women’s Rights Under CEDAW, 52 ATENEO Law Journal 765-803 (2008), available at:
https://clararitapadilla.blogspot.com/2011/04/
Advancing Women’s Rights Through the CEDAW Inquiry Procedure
1) Clara Rita A. Padilla and Anita B. Visbal, Advancing Reproductive Rights Using the Inquiry Procedure of the OP CEDAW and the UN Special Procedures: The Philippine Experience: EnGendeRights, 2010, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/womens-rights-cedaw/advancing-reproductive-rights/
2) Clara Rita A. Padilla, Primer on the Inquiry Procedure under the OP CEDAW: EnGendeRights, 2010, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/womens-rights-cedaw/primer-on-the-inquiry-procedure/
Access to the Life-Saving Drug Misoprostol to Prevent and Treat Postpartum Hemorrhage
1) Clara Rita A. Padilla, Policy Brief: Access to the Life-Saving Drug Misoprostol to Prevent and Treat Postpartum Hemorrhage Can Save Filipino Women’s Lives: EnGendeRights, December 2016, available at:
https://engenderights.com/resources/misoprostol/policy-brief/