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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Benin’s New Abortion Law
By Jamie Abrams
Benin's parliament has voted to expand abortion access. Before this amendment, a woman could get her pregnancy terminated if the pregnancy would threaten her health or life, in case of foetal…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Reuters (Dec. 10, 2015): Sierra Leone legalizes abortion, will save 'countless lives' - activists, by Kiernan Guilbert: Sierra Leone has passed the Safe Abortion Act which legalizes abortion during the…
International Law Prof Blog
Human Rights: Uganda Becomes 24th Country to Ratify the Maputo Protocol
Uganda became the 24th country to ratify the "Maputo Protocol" to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The protocol was adopted by the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Uganda Ratifies Protocol Recognizing Reproductive and Other Rights of Women
East African Business Week: Uganda ratifies protocol on African women rights, by Joseph Olanyo: Kampala - Uganda has ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Uganda: Abortion Complicates Ratification of Protocol On Women’s Rights
Kakaire A. Kirunda reports for the Monitor (Kampala):October 31, 2007The government is under renewed pressure to embrace the protocol to the African charter on human and peoples' rights on the…