Human Rights Committee Calls Out Peru for Highly Restrictive Abortion Law

The UN Human Rights Committee recently criticized Peru for a wide range of reproductive rights violations, including highly restrictive abortion legislation and a high rate of maternal mortality.During its 107th session in March 2013, the Human Rights Committee reviewed Peru's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and issued Concluding Observations to the government of Peru on a series of repeated violations of women's reproductive rights. Prior to the session, the Center and the International Commission of Jurists submitted a joint shadow letter to the Committee that called on Peru to establish a national protocol for therapeutic abortion, make exceptions for rape and forced artificial insemination in the abortion law, and provide individual reparations to K.L. as ordered in the Human Rights Committee's 2005 K.L. v. Peru decision.

By CRR, USA.

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