ICELAND-ABORTION-UPR-CYCLE4

[not yet reviewed]

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Outgoing recommendations:

• Decriminalize abortion and ensure the right to universal, safe access to sexual and reproductive health services (to Algeria)
• Legalize access to safe abortion under all circumstances and post-abortion care (to Angola)
• Decriminalize voluntary termination of pregnancy (to Angola)
• Decriminalize abortion and legalize it in cases of rape, incest and foetal impairment (to Bahamas)
• Decriminalize abortion and ensure protection and services for victims of sexual and gender-based violence (to Bahrain)
• Expand the grounds on which abortion is permitted, to include women’s physical and mental health, fetal impairment, rape and incest (to Bangladesh)
• Implement Act No. 2021/12 that authorizes abortion up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, in cases where pregnancies are likely to cause or aggravate material, educational, professional or mental harm that is incompatible with the best interest of the woman and/or the unborn child (to Benin)
• Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances (to Bhutan)
• Legalize abortion in all circumstances (to Bolivia)
• Ensure safe and legal access to abortion services across the country (to Bosnia & Herzegovina)
• Decriminalize abortion and ensure safe abortion up to 28 weeks throughout the country (to Botswana)
• Decriminalize abortion, introduce legislation to provide access to safe abortion and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health and rights for all (to Brazil)
• Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances (to Brunei Darussalam)
• Eliminate the need for legal proceedings for women to access safe termination of pregnancy in cases of health hazards, serious illness of the foetus, rape and incest, and decriminalize abortion in all other cases (to Burkina Faso)
• Decriminalize abortion, and legalize it in cases of rape, incest and fetal impairment (to Burundi)
• Remove all barriers to access to safe, legal and effective abortion services for all, and collect disaggregated data on all forms of termination of pregnancies (to Cabo Verde)
• Decriminalize and legalize abortion (to Cameroon)
• Ensure substantive access for federal patients seeking abortion care (to Canada)
• Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances (to Chile)
• Ensure the enforceability of abortion rights recognized by the Constitutional Court, including measures to eliminate discrimination in access to abortion services (to Colombia)
• Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances and ensure unrestricted access to reproductive health services (to Côte d’Ivoire)
• Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances and strengthen measures to ensure access to safe abortion and post-abortion services (Iceland)
• Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances and remove all restrictions to access to safe abortion services (to Dominica)
• Decriminalize and legalize abortion and ensure access to safe abortion and post-abortion services (to Dominican Republic)
• Decriminalize abortion and ensure the right to universal and safe access to sexual and reproductive health services (to Ecuador)
• Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances (to El Salvador)
• Ensure safe and legal access to abortion and post-abortion care (to El Salvador)
• Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services and comprehensive sexuality education for all (to Equatorial Guinea)
• Implement the commitment made at the Nairobi Summit on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD25) to zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities by integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions into national universal health coverage strategies and programmes, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and provision of post-abortion care (to Eritrea)
• Decriminalize abortion and ensure the effective provision of sexual and reproductive services (to Ethiopia)
• Decriminalize abortion and repeal sections 235 and 236 of the Crimes Act (to Fiji)
• Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances (to Gambia)
• Implement amendments to the Criminal Code to facilitate access to information about voluntary termination of pregnancy (to Germany)
• Decriminalize and legalize abortion and ensure access to safe abortion (to Germany)
• Sustain efforts to integrate safe abortion care services into routine reproductive health services (to Ghana)
• Decriminalize abortion and guarantee access to safe abortion in law and in practice for all pregnant persons (to Guatemala)
• Amend and harmonize laws and policies to ensure access to safe abortion services (to Indonesia)
• Decriminalize and legalize abortion in all circumstances (to Iraq)
• Guarantee access to safe abortion and post-abortion care (to Italy)
• Decriminalize abortion and amend the Maternal Protection Act to guarantee access to safe, timely and affordable abortion care without the requirement of spousal consent (Japan)
• Decriminalize abortion (to Jordan)
• Decriminalize and legalize abortion in all circumstances (to Madagascar)
• Ensure access to safe and legal abortion services by decriminalizing and legalizing abortion (to Malta)
• Decriminalise abortion and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health services for all (to Nicaragua)
• Decriminalize abortion (to Nigeria)
• Amend abortion law (section 338 of the Penal Code) to provide safe abortion services without written consent from a spouse (to Pakistan)
• Decriminalize abortion and legalize it in cases of rape, incest, severe foetal impairment and threats to the life or health of the pregnant woman (to Peru)
• Decriminalize abortion and ensure access to safe abortions (to Philippines)
• Decriminalize abortion under all circumstances and ensure women’s access to sexual and reproductive health care services without guardian permission or a marriage certificate (to Qatar)
• Guarantee universal access to safe and legal abortion by swiftly reforming the Criminal Act (to Republic of Korea)
• Enforce women’s legal right to abortion across the country (to Romania)
• Ensure the full implementation of the result of the 2021 referendum legalizing abortion and removing all remaining barriers to safe and legal abortion (to San Marino)
• Remove all restrictions to access to safe abortion services and adopt a comprehensive programme on sexual and reproductive health and rights (to Slovakia)
• Decriminalize abortion and legalize it in cases of rape (to Sri Lanka)
• Decriminalize abortion (to Tonga)
• Decriminalize abortion (to Tunisia)
• Legalize abortion and ensure access to safe abortion and post-abortion care (to Turkmenistan)
• Decriminalize abortion and legalize it in cases of rape, incest, fetal impairment or threat to the health of the mother (to United Arab Emirates)
• Ensure equal access to abortion across Northern Ireland (to United Kingdom)
• Implement the International Conference on Population and Development 25 commitment for the full exercise of sexual and reproductive rights by ensuring access to comprehensive sexuality education and universal coverage of quality sexual and reproductive health and health services, including safe abortion (to Uruguay)
• Decriminalize abortion (to Vanuatu)

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