This book seeks to rigorously examine and challenge the patriarchal norms and practices that restrict access to reproductive healthcare, with the aim of encouraging key actors to reform their legal, political, and social approaches in favor of women’s and girls’ reproductive rights.

This booklet tells the story of Victoria, whose experience of criminalization for an obstetric emergency represents the inequities faced by women across Honduras.

An analysis of the criminal proceedings and legal criteria regarding cases of women prosecuted for abortion from 2006 to 2018 in Honduras, using a legal-social approach and from a gender and human rights perspective.

The situation of induced abortion has changed markedly over the past few decades. This report provides updated information on the incidence of abortion worldwide, the laws that regulate abortion and the safety of its provision. It also looks at unintended pregnancy, its relationship to abortion, and the impact that both have on women and couples who increasingly want smaller families and more control over the timing of their births.

Este Informe temático hace parte de la implementación del proyecto “Erradicación de la Violencia y de la Discriminación contra mujeres y niñas en América Latina y en el Caribe”, llevado a cabo por la CIDH gracias al apoyo del Gobierno de Canadá, con plazo de ejecución de dos años y medio (2017-2019) con el propósito de promover el cumplimiento de las recomendaciones y decisiones de la Comisión a la luz de los estándares interamericanos sobre los derechos de las mujeres, niñas y adolescentes en América Latina y el Caribe.