Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY, Mar 21 2007 (IPS) – Mexico could join Cuba and Guyana as the only countries in Latin America where abortion is legal in cases other than those involving rape or a threat to a pregnant woman s life.
Two draft laws apparently enjoy majority support, and the Church and conservative groups are up in arms.
For the first time there is a serious, mature debate on this, and a strong possibility that abortion will be decriminalised, which would be a very positive step in terms of the rights of women, Martha Júarez, spokeswoman for the non-governmental Information Group on Reproductive Choice (GIRE), told IPS.
Last week, opposition legislators from the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party …
Inaki Borda
NEW YORK, Aug 30 2011 (IPS) – I just gave birth on the ground I had no drugs for pain during delivery, one Haitian mother tells Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Tuesday that says a year and a half after the country s devastating earthquake, women and girls are still facing gaps in access to available healthcare services necessary to stop preventable maternal and infant deaths.
Haitian women and girls living in makeshif…
Teruhiko Mashiko, Japan Parliamentary Federation for Population
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 13 2019 (IPS) – The Japan Parliamentary Federation for Population represented by Mr Teruhiko Mashiko and its secretariat, the Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) has made a clear and concrete commitment to endorse the ICPD25 agenda. Mashiko tells IPS that Japan, as should every country driven by the well-being of its population, should create the best possible conditions to achieve the ICPD25 agenda.
Interview by Joyce Chimbi at the ICPD25 in Nairobi, Kenya
Q. What lessons are there for developing countries from Japan to accelerate the achieve…