ICELAND-ABORTION-UPR-CYCLE3

Incoming recommendations: (Link)

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Outgoing recommendations:

• Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and remove legal, administrative and practical barriers to accessing safe and legal abortion services (to Andorra)
• Amend the Penal Code to decriminalize abortion in all cases, enhance access for women to inclusive health-care services by trained personnel and ensure that all women and girls have access to affordable and modern forms of contraception (to Angola)
• Form a legislative committee to revise the abortion law to allow the termination of pregnancy (to Antigua & Barbuda)
• Ensure that access to legal abortion is available on equal terms in all regions across the country (to Argentina)
• Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and ensure that women and girls can access safe and legal abortion (to Argentina)
• Ensure women’s decision-making powers concerning their health status and the use of abortion for family planning (to Azerbaijan)
• Decriminalize abortion and take measures to ensure that all women have access to legal abortion and high-quality post-abortion services (to Bhutan)
• 156 Eliminate criminal sanctions against women and girls in cases of voluntary abortion and eliminate all barriers that currently hinder access to legal, affordable and timely termination of pregnancy (to Bolivia)
• Continue expanding access to voluntary termination of pregnancy in order to ensure the full recognition of sexual and reproductive rights (to Brazil)
• Take measures to ensure that all women have access to legal abortion and high-quality post-abortion services (to Brunei Darussalam)
• Decriminalize abortion and repeal section 339 (2) of the amended Penal Code to remove the requirement of obtaining certification from a prosecutor before an abortion can be legally obtained (to Cameroon)
• Eliminate existing barriers that deny women access to safe and legal voluntary termination of pregnancy and introduce stricter justification requirements to prevent the blanket use by medical institutions and practitioners of conscientious objection (to Chile)
• Decriminalize abortion and take measures to ensure that all women have access to legal abortion and high-quality post-abortion services (to Costa Rica)
• Abolish criminal sanctions on women and girls who undergo abortion and revise legislation so that they can access legal, safe and voluntary termination of pregnancy (to Dominican Republic)
• Repeal laws criminalizing abortion in cases of rape, incest and severe fetal impairment and eliminate all punitive measures (to Ecuador)
• Decriminalize abortion, and adopt measures to avoid the incarceration of women as a result of obstetric emergencies and miscarriages (to El Salvador)
• Revise the Penal Code so that women can access legal, safe and voluntary termination of pregnancy, and guarantee the provision of the respective medical services (to Eritrea)
• Decriminalize abortion and guarantee the provision of, and access to, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and goods, including safe abortion and post-abortion care, and modern contraceptives (to Eswatini)
• Amend legislation to decriminalize abortion in all circumstances as well as ensure that safe and legal abortion services and post-abortion care are available (to Gambia)
• Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and remove legal, administrative and practical barriers to accessing safe and legal abortion services (to Grenada)
• Ensure access to contraceptives and safe, timely abortion services in order to guarantee sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, in line with existing legislation (to Guyana)
• Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and remove legal, administrative and practical barriers to accessing safe and legal abortion services (to Honduras)
• Expand access to abortion and repeal the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act ( (to Ireland)
• Address barriers preventing women and girls from accessing sexual and reproductive health services as made available by the 2016 guidelines on the prevention of unsafe abortions (to Laos)
• Decriminalize abortion and ensure the right to universal and safe access to sexual and reproductive health services (to Lithuania)
• Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and remove legal, administrative and practical barriers to accessing safe and legal abortion services (to Madagascar)
• Address the large decline in the use of contraceptives by improving data collection on sexual and reproductive health and abortion expenses for future planning (to Maldives)
• Revise the Criminal Code so that women can access legal, safe and voluntary termination of pregnancy, and guarantee the provision of the respective medical services (to Mauritius)
• Ensure the harmonization of the penal codes of all Mexican states so that women, regardless of their place of residence, can access legal, safe and voluntary termination of pregnancy, and guarantee the provision of the respective medical services (to Mexico)
• Protect the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, including those with disabilities, by ensuring their access to sexual and reproductive health information, commodities and services, and halt the practice of coerced abortion and involuntary sterilization (to Mongolia)
• Remove abortion from the Crimes Act of 1961 and amend the Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act of 1977 so that abortion is decriminalized and implement recommendation “Model A” from the Law Commission’s report on “alternative approaches to abortion law” (to New Zealand)
• Make medical abortion available and accessible throughout the country, in line with the World Health Organization safe abortion guidelines, and urgently remove waiting periods, biased counselling and unnecessary administrative burdens (to North Macedonia)
• Decriminalize abortion and ensure universal and safe access to abortion and other sexual and reproductive health and rights (to Papua New Guinea)
• Decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and ensure that women and girls can access safe and legal abortion, and guarantee access to medical services for survivors of sexual violence (to Peru)
• Ensure that safe and legal abortions are accessible in practice by creating clear, legally binding regulations for the implementation of the 1993 Act on Family Planning (to Poland)
• Implement fully and effectively the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights on access to abortion (to Poland)
• Amend the law on the voluntary termination of pregnancy and eliminate excessively constraining provisions, including the minimum reflection period and the requirement of a fee (to Portugal)
• Eliminate criminal sanctions against women and girls in cases of voluntary abortion and eliminate all barriers that currently hinder access to legal, affordable and timely termination of pregnancy (to San Marino)
• Revise the Criminal Code so that women can access legal, safe and voluntary terminations of pregnancy; and guarantee the provisions of the respective medical services (to Senegal)
• Revise the Health-Care Act to ensure access to safe abortion and remove requirements for mandatory counselling, medically unnecessary waiting periods and third-party authorization (to Slovakia)
• Establish a mechanism to ensure that women’s access to sexual and reproductive health services is not impeded by refusals to provide abortion services on the grounds of conscience (to Spain)
• Prevent unwanted pregnancies as provided under the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (to South Africa)
• Decriminalize abortion by revising article 309 of the Penal Code to respect, protect and fulfil women’s and girls’ human rights to health (to Suriname)
• Decriminalize abortion and increase the accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services in remote areas (to Timor-Leste)
• Ensure universal and safe access to abortion and the right to other sexual and reproductive health services (to Togo)
• Decriminalize abortion by amending the Offences against the Persons Act (to Trinidad & Tobago)
• Provide safe abortion services for women and girls and legal protection for victims of sexual and gender-based violence (to Uganda)
• Ensure that the law governing access to abortion in Northern Ireland fully complies with international human rights law, by decriminalizing abortion and ensuring access to abortion in cases of severe and fatal fetal anomalies and where the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest (to United Kingdom)
• Introduce stricter justification requirements to prevent the blanket use by medical institutions and practitioners of conscientious objection to performing an abortion (to Uruguay)
• Take measures to ensure that all women have access to legal abortion and post-abortion services (to Uruguay)
• Revise legislation so that women can access legal, safe and voluntary termination of pregnancy and guarantee the provision of the relevant medical services (to Vanuatu)
• Address the root causes of son preference and the misuse of medical technologies for sex selection without curtailing women’s access to safe abortion services (to Viet Nam)

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