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CEDAW Recommendation to Decriminalize Abortion vis-a-vis Senate deferment of CHR budget due to its position supporting Decriminalization of Abortion

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...

Women’s Rights Advocates Say No to Anti-Women, Anti-People Electoral Candidates

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...

Right to Safe and Legal Abortion Glaringly Absent in PDu30 SONA

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...

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