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POLAND-ABORTION-UPR-CYCLE4

Country: Poland

Issue: Abortion

Human rights mechanism: UPR

UPR cycle: 4 (2022-2027)

Incoming recommendations: (Link)

  • 114.118 Ensure the universal protection of the rights of women and girls, including refugees, to access safe and legal abortions (Australia) [NOTED]
  • 114.119 Ensure effective access to safe and legal abortion (Austria) [NOTED]
  • 114.120 Ensure legal, timely and effective access to both safe abortion and contraception (Belgium) [NOTED]
  • 114.121 Ensure that safe and legal abortions are accessible in practice, in keeping with the 1993 Act on Family Planning, and amend article 152.2 of the Polish Criminal Code, which criminalizes any form of support to pregnant women seeking an abortion (Canada) [NOTED]
  • 114.127 Legalize the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in cases of incest and serious malformation of the fetus and guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health services for all women (Mexico) [NOTED]
  • 114.128 Improve women’s rights significantly by implementing initiatives to prevent domestic and gender-based violence, changing the legal definition of rape and reversing the restrictive new abortion law (Norway) [NOTED]
  • 114.133 Decriminalize abortion through the approval of a law that allows the interruption of pregnancy in all cases (Spain) [NOTED]
  • 114.134 Decriminalize abortion in all cases and ensure that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies, including through ensuring their access to necessary professional health services (Sweden) [NOTED]
  • 114.135 Ensure effective access to timely and non-discriminatory sexual and reproductive health care and services, decriminalize abortion in all cases and ensure that women and girls have access to safe and legal abortion in accordance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Switzerland) [NOTED]
  • 114.143 Improve access to sexual and reproductive services, information and education, including by ensuring access to legal and safe abortion services without discrimination (New Zealand) [NOTED]

Outgoing recommendations:

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This content was last updated in August 2023