Monthly Archives: September 2018

Access to legal abortion services needed, to prevent 47,000 women dying each year – UN rights experts

Access to legal abortion services needed, to prevent 47,000 women dying each year – UN rights experts
States across the world should act now to decriminalise abortion and make every effort to ensure women and girls have the right to make their own decisions about pregnancy, said a group of United Nations human rights experts on Friday, in a statement marking International Safe Abortion Day.
Access to legal abortion services needed, to prevent 47,000 women dying each year – UN rights experts
Source: UN News – Women, Children, and Population

Deputy UN chief hails ‘political courage’ of Latin American countries ‘to confront and end femicide’

Deputy UN chief hails ‘political courage’ of Latin American countries ‘to confront and end femicide’
A 50 million Euro investment aimed at helping to end the scourge of femicide – where women and girls are killed just because of their gender – was announced at United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, thanks to the ‘political courage’ of a group of Latin American countries, said the UN deputy chief.
Deputy UN chief hails ‘political courage’ of Latin American countries ‘to confront and end femicide’
Source: UN News – Women, Children, and Population