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AMNESTY WELCOMES SINN FÉIN POLICY CHANGE ON ABORTION

Amnesty International Ireland has welcomed the Sinn Féin party’s new support for legal access to abortion services in cases of pregnancies with fatal foetal abnormalities.

‘Hands off our bodies’: New manifesto calls on states to end attempts to control women’s lives

Amnesty International has launched a new manifesto demanding that governments around the world end their attempts to control and criminalize women’s and girls’ sexuality and choices.

Amnesty and Mental Health Reform welcome publication of report on Mental Health Act and urge action on complaints and treatment to those who are ‘unwilling’

Amnesty International Ireland and Mental Health Reform, the national coalition on mental health, have together (05/03/2015) welcomed the publication by Minister for Primary and Social Care, Kathleen Lynch TD, of the Report of the Expert Group on the Review of the Mental Health Act 2001.

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Guadalupe, of the Las 17, El Salvador, has been released from prison!

Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez, imprisoned after losing her pregnancy in 2007 in El Salvador, has been released from prison. Guadalupe who was 18 years old when she was jailed and sentenced to 30 years in prison after suffering a miscarriage. She was accused of having an abortion, which is outlawed in any circumstance in El Salvador.
“Those seven years were very long for me,'' said Guadalupe.

A moment of euphoria in a long battle for women and girl’s rights in El Salvador

This morning I woke up to the news that “Guadalupe”, a young woman unjustly imprisoned in El Salvador after having a miscarriage, had been pardoned. 

El Salvador: Pardon for woman jailed for miscarriage, a triumph of justice

A pardon granted by El Salvador’s Parliamentary Assembly to a young woman imprisoned after suffering a miscarriage is a triumph of justice and gives hope to the other 15 women languishing in jail on similar charges, said Amnesty International. 

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Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers unlawfully held

Hundreds of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are being unlawfully detained of all ages in the Reception Centre for Foreigners “Gazi Baba” in Skopje. 

Women and girls' rights under threat in Spain

Access to safe and legal abortion services for 16 and 17 year old girls and some women with mental disabilities is under threat in Spain.  

Supporters of Hong Kong protests tortured

At least 27 people remain behind bars in China after showing support for the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

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