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UPR cycles

Country

THAILAND-ABORTION-TBs-CRPD

Country: Thailand

Issue: Abortion

Human rights mechanism: Treaty bodies

Treaty body: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Concluding Observations on Report 1 (2016) (Link)

Protecting the integrity of the person (art. 17)

35. The Committee is concerned that persons with disabilities, including women, girls and boys with disabilities, continue to be subjected to involuntary medical treatment, including forced sterilization and abortion.

36. The Committee recommends that the State party take efficient measures to protect persons with disabilities, including women, girls and boys, from forced interventions, especially sterilization and abortion, and ensure that the individual’s right to free, prior and informed consent to treatment is upheld and supported decision-making mechanisms are provided.

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