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Title:Access to safe abortion as a human right in the African region: lessons from emerging jurisprudence of UN treaty-monitoring bodies
Author:Ngwena, CharlesISNI
Year:2013
Periodical:South African Journal on Human Rights (ISSN 0258-7203)
Volume:29
Issue:2
Pages:399-428
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:UN
abortion
human rights
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/19962126.2013.11865080
Abstract:Each year, unsafe abortion causes the death of thousands of women, rendering them seriously ill and disabling many more in the African region. Highly restrictive abortion law is a major causative factor. Among United Nations (UN) treaty-monitoring bodies, there is a growing, albeit incremental, recognition of access to safe abortion services as a human right. Against the backdrop of abortion regimes that impede access to safe abortion in the African region, this article takes critical stock of the contribution that UN treaty-monitoring bodies are making towards the development of jurisprudence that conceives access to abortion as a human right. Its main focus is on critically appraising three decisions made by UN treaty-monitoring bodies, namely, KL v Peru; LMR v Argentina; and LC v Peru under Optional Protocols and drawing lessons for the African region. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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