Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré by Susan Michelle Tyrell March 25, 2013, A report recently presented to the United Nations (PDF link) says that a denial of abortion can be considered torture, in line with actual methods of… Continue Reading →
By Widney Brown Two reports by the BCC this month raise the spectre that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals which include reducing maternal mortality and ensuring environmental sustainability may actually be undermining women’s sexual and reproductive rights. The… Continue Reading →
April 12, 2012 – The BBC has a horrifying new report on the forced sterilization of women in Uzbekistan. Stories have been leaking out for years about doctors secretly performing hysterectomies on women who have given birth in hospitals. The… Continue Reading →
January 27, 2012 | A task force in North Carolina recently ruled that survivors of that state’s eugenics program should be paid $50,000 each in financial compensation. Eugenics is often defined as the science of “improving” a human population by… Continue Reading →
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