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CEDAW Recommendation to Decriminalize Abortion vs Senate deferment of CHR budget

Sarryna Gesite - November 15, 2023

As early as 2006, the CEDAW Committee has recommended for the Philippines to remove the punitive provisions on abortion. In its 2023 Concluding Observations, over 17 years later since its initial 2006 recommendation, the Committee...

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Right to Safe and Legal Abortion Glaringly Absent in PDu30 SONA

kristinetanchan - July 27, 2021 0

Human Rights Advocates Call on Congress to Junk Anti-Choice House Bill No. 8354 and to Support Decriminalization of Abortion Quezon City, July 26, 2021 –...

7 reasons why we need to decriminalize abortion

kristinetanchan - September 27, 2020 0

Atty. Clara Rita "Claire" Padilla, spokesperson of PINSAN wrote an article to list the reasons why we need to decriminalize abortion: "The restrictive, colonial, and...

Public Launch Event of the Bill to Decriminalize Abortion in the Philippines

kristinetanchan - October 1, 2020 0

On September 28, 2020, the Philippine Safe Abortion Advocacy Network (PINSAN) publicly launched the bill to decriminalize abortion in the Philippines. Watch the livestream...

Decriminalize Abortion, Save Women’s Lives — Women’s Rights Advocates Urge Congress to Pass Proposed Bill into Law

kristinetanchan - October 3, 2020 0

Read PINSAN's statement urging Congress to pass the proposed bill to decriminalize abortion and why this bill will save hundreds of thousands of Filipino...

Public Launch of Bill to Decriminalize Abortion in the Philippines

kristinetanchan - September 28, 2020 0

MEDIA ADVISORY In the Philippines, the restrictive abortion law prevents women forces women to seek out unsafe methods of abortion. Because of our country’s restrictive...