As early as 2006, the CEDAW Committee has recommended for the Philippines to remove the punitive provisions on abortion. Â In its 2023 Concluding Observations, over 17 years later since its initial 2006 recommendation, the...
Women’s Rights Advocates Say No to Anti-Women, Anti-People Electoral Candidates, Urge to Support the Decriminalization of Abortion
Quezon City, September 10, 2021 - “Last September 7, the Mexican Supreme Court declared that penalizing abortion is...
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 – “In President Duterte’s SONA speech, the right to safe and...