Countries: Italy
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Some reproductive health services were suspended or relocated to provide space for Covid-19 patients. Reassignment of medical staff to Covid-19 wards and absence of personnel due to illness or self-isolation also led to reduced services" (4). "Law 194 obliges authorities to ensure that conscientious objection does not prevent fulfilment of legal requests for abortion, even if this necessitates relocating personnel... However, activists and doctors told Human Rights Watch that these measures are not upheld or enforced, including during the pandemic. In some cases, this impacted women’s access not only to abortion but to other essential reproductive health care" (5). "According to the March 30 Health Ministry circular, non-deferrable care during...more

Countries: Morocco
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

In Table 10, titled "Social coverage," the percentage of health coverage for active working population 15 years and older in 2018 is recorded. 53.6% of women and 43.3% of men have health coverage (28). "53 per cent of beneficiaries [of the medical assistance system] are women and 47 per cent are men" (31). This statistic shows women have equal access to the Moroccan medical assistance system (CEC2 - CODER COMMENT). "The national plan for the advancement of health in rural areas has enabled improved access for rural women to health services" (31). To enhance maternal and child health services, under the 2011-2020 National Reproductive Health Strategy, comprehensive, accessible and reasonable...more

Countries: Morocco
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"She was taken to Rabat’s Ibn Sina hospital, where she was subjected to a gynecological examination without her consent" (4).

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Women in Afghanistan have been banned from training to become midwives in the latest crackdown unveiled by the Taliban. Trainee midwifery students, who have been ordered to no longer attend classes, urged Taliban leaders to allow them to continue studying. A director at leading global charity Human Rights Watch said the measures would lead to women and girls dying due to struggling to receive healthcare during childbirth" (Para 1,2,3).The Taliban's decision to close institutions providing education for midwives, thereby restricting women's access to healthcare services, clearly indicates an impending shortage of midwives to care for women.(UST - CODERS COMMENT). "The Taliban have also banned women from being treated by male...more

Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Waiting lists for gynaecology appointments across the UK have more than doubled since February 2020, BBC research reveals. Records show around three-quarters of a million (755,046) women's health appointments are waiting to happen - up from 360,400 just before the pandemic. This would suggest around 630,000 people - at the very least - are on the list to be seen for problems that range from fibroids and endometriosis to incontinence and menopause care. Health ministers across the UK say they are working on plans to improve the situation, but health leaders say that women are being let down" (para 1-4). "A year on, she says she is still in pain...more

Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"[I]t notes with concern… (c) The lack of public transport in rural areas, which complicates rural women’s and girls’ access to education, employment opportunities and quality and specialized health services" (10). "Indigenous women and girls have limited access to... culturally appropriate health services in the State party" (11). "The Committee notes with concern... (c) The onerous fees and administrative procedures faced by refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls to have their educational certificates evaluated and obtain the identification documents required to access education, employment, health care, housing and social benefits; (d) The limited access to health services for asylum-seeking women who do not contribute to the Costa Rican Social Insurance...more

Countries: Chile
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Between 1984 and 1985, the Swedish mining company Boliden shipped 19,139 tonnes of toxic waste, containing arsenic, mercury, cadmium and lead, from its smelter in Rönnskärsverken in Skellefteå, Sweden, to Arica, in northern Chile. Boliden exported the sludge for processing and arsenic extraction to a subcontractor, Promel S.A., a Chilean mining company. Promel processed just 120 of the 19,139 tonnes. The remainder of the waste was left outdoors and uncovered, at a site known as Sitio F, 250 metres from Sica Sica, a neighbourhood of low-income family housing. The location of the storage site is indicated on the attached map. It remained there for 14 years. The surrounding community was...more

Countries: Peru
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"The UN committee found that Camila was a victim of 'discrimination based on her age, gender, ethnic origin and social status' given that her 'request for an abortion was repeatedly ignored and her home and school were frequently invaded'. It added that her 'lack of access to safe abortion constituted differential treatment based on her gender, denying her access to a service essential to her health and punishing her for not complying with gender stereotypes about her reproductive role'" (para 12-13).

Countries: United States
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"'Regardless, this is compelling new evidence that abortion bans are preventing tens of thousands of people who want abortions from reaching providers in the formal health care system,' said Caitlin Myers, a professor at Middlebury College who has studied the effects of abortion restrictions before Dobbs and was not involved in the report. The measured declines in legal abortions were about twice as large as she had estimated in her research, based solely on increases in travel distances. 'It’s likely that factors like clinic congestion, stigma and fear are proving just as great an obstacle,' she said" (par. 19-20). "After the Dobbs decision, the clinic hired half a dozen more...more

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Between 2017 and 2018, the Ministry of Health implemented a project to raise awareness of reproductive health, family planning and safe abortion among women of reproductive age (5,000 women under 49 years of age and 2,000 girls aged 13–16 years)" (17). "Given the high rates of morbidity, the failure to treat and the mortality from breast cancer, the lack of countrywide measures to prevent and diagnose breast cancer, low awareness among the population and the lack of oncological alertness on the part of doctors at all levels, a Breast Centre has been established at the National Centre for Oncology and Haematology. Since the beginning of 2018, the Ministry of Health,...more

Countries: Niger
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1, CRPLB-PRACTICE-1

"Most of the patients are girls with obstetric fistula — a hole between the vagina and rectum or bladder, usually caused by complicated labour, which leaves them incontinent. 'The reason is child marriage, because when the girls are married at an early age, they get pregnant when their bodies are not ready,' says Salamatou Traoré, the clinic’s director. 'That means they develop complications easily and often they live in rural areas, far from health centres, so they do not receive any medical assistance, which makes things worse'" (para 17-18).

Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Death rates for mothers and newborn babies have increased for the first time in a decade amid growing concerns over patient safety, a report reveals. There has been an ‘alarming decline’ in the overall quality of NHS care, with the deterioration in maternity services particularly bad, it adds. Researchers from the Institute of Global Health Innovation, at Imperial College London, say the gap between the UK and the best performing countries for deaths from treatable causes, such as sepsis and blood clots, has widened" (par. 1-3). "Lord Darzi, co-director at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, who recently led a recent government-commissioned review into the NHS, said: ‘Our latest report...more

Countries: Ukraine
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Huseynova said she remains in contact with other Donetsk women who had been detained for years. 'I try my best to send them some kind of parcels. No humanitarian mission is working there. No humanitarian aid is sent there. When they’re on their periods these women use stuffing from the old bed mattress'" (para 22).

Countries: Norway
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Although Sami women face different forms of gender-based violence within and outside the Sami community, there is insufficient knowledge of Sami language and culture among law enforcement officials and health professionals, and that the Sami crisis centre in the Sami traditional territory was closed in 2019" (7). "The Committee notes with appreciation the high quality of health care in the State party. It also welcomes the appointment of a public committee to produce a report on women’s health and health from a gender perspective and to submit its recommendations in 2023, following which a new strategy on women’s health will be developed. The Committee furthermore welcomes the opening, in 2020,...more

Countries: Somalia
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"Reaction to the pilot [of show discussing women's taboo issues] was overwhelmingly positive, said the host, Naima Said Salah, and exposed the impact that a dire lack of information had on girls. 'One young woman in the audience shared her own experience. She remembered the exact time and day when her period started because she had no idea what was happening. She thought she was dying. It was only after she told her older sister, that she understood,' said Salah, a senior reporter at Bilan. Salah added that she was proud to bring the subject of periods into public debate. 'Women, including me, never had the opportunity to learn about...more