EL SALVADOR-ABORTION-UPR-CYCLE4

Incoming recommendations: (Link)

• 124.122 Establish criteria under which abortions are legally permitted, including where there is a serious threat to health (Ireland) [NOTED]
• 124.123 Guarantee women and girls’ access to health services, including sexual and reproductive health services, decriminalize abortion, particularly when the life of the mother or unborn child is in danger, and continue the fight against violence against women and girls (France) [NOTED]
• 124.159 Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances (Iceland) [NOTED]
• 124.160 Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and ensure safe and legal abortion services and post-abortion care without discrimination or prosecution (Slovenia) [NOTED]
• 124.161 Review the abortion law so that all women and girls have access to safe and legal reproductive healthcare (Luxembourg) [NOTED]
• 124.162 Revise the legislation on the complete ban on abortion, ending the criminalization of women for obstetric emergencies, to make it compatible with women’s right to both life and health, and provide quality treatment for complications arising from abortions carried out in unsafe conditions (Belgium) [NOTED]
• 124.163 Ensure safe and legal access to abortion and post-abortion care (Iceland) [NOTED]
• 124.164 Decriminalize abortion, particularly in spontaneous cases and obstetric emergencies, and provide comprehensive aftercare to women, without discrimination or prosecution (Mexico) [NOTED]
• 124.165 Ensure the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, including by decriminalizing abortion in the case of rape, non-viability of the fetus and when the woman’s life and health are in danger (Netherlands) [NOTED]
• 124.166 Remove restrictions on women’s rights, including in the area of sexual and reproductive health, by explicitly lifting the total ban on abortion, at least in cases of sexual abuse, threat to the life or health of the pregnant woman or fetal abnormality (Switzerland) [NOTED]
• 124.167 Ensure sexual and reproductive health and rights by decriminalizing abortion and continuing to prevent adolescent pregnancies (Norway) [NOTED]
• 124.168 Adopt immediate measures to provide sexual and reproductive health rights for women in El Salvador, including through repealing the total prohibition of abortion and the criminalization and detention of women for so-called abortion-related offences under article 133 of the Criminal Code (New Zealand) [NOTED]
• 124.169 Guarantee access to safe and legal abortion by decriminalizing abortion in cases of sexual abuse, fetal abnormalities or when necessary to save the life of the mother (Australia) [NOTED]
• 124.170 Revise the legislation concerning the total ban on abortion to make it compatible with women’s right to health and life (Cabo Verde) [NOTED]
• 124.171 Review existing legislation on abortion to make it compatible with women’s rights to life and health (India) [NOTED]

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Outgoing recommendations:

[none applicable]

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