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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, Charles |
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] |