Latest items for FSCB-PRACTICE-1
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:22 p.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"Folopa is emotional as she remembers the nurses forcing her into a car, the bumpy road to Cusco, the doctors’ white coats and the other women at the Antonio Lorena hospital that night in 1997. She was 31 years old. 'They were lying in a room as if they were dead. I was so scared. They didn’t make me sign any document, they left me unconscious in a room after the surgery and I had to go back home alone,' she says. More than 270,000 women were sterilised in regional hospitals or small rural centres called postas. Many suffered botched operations conducted by poorly trained staff in unsanitary conditions, and...more
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"Folopa is emotional as she remembers the nurses forcing her into a car, the bumpy road to Cusco, the doctors’ white coats and the other women at the Antonio Lorena hospital that night in 1997. She was 31 years old. 'They were lying in a room as if they were dead. I was so scared. They didn’t make me sign any document, they left me unconscious in a room after the surgery and I had to go back home alone,' she says. More than 270,000 women were sterilised in regional hospitals or small rural centres called postas. Many suffered botched operations conducted by poorly trained staff in unsanitary conditions, and...more
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:37 p.m.
Countries: Norway
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Under certain circumstances, women and girls with disabilities continue to be subjected to involuntary medical treatment, including forced sterilization and abortion" (15).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-PRACTICE-1
"Under certain circumstances, women and girls with disabilities continue to be subjected to involuntary medical treatment, including forced sterilization and abortion" (15).
Dec. 5, 2023, 11:18 a.m.
Countries: China
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"Forced abortions, sterilisations, the use of intrauterine contraceptive devices as well as hefty financial penalties left physical and emotional scars on millions of women" (pp 6).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"Forced abortions, sterilisations, the use of intrauterine contraceptive devices as well as hefty financial penalties left physical and emotional scars on millions of women" (pp 6).
Oct. 10, 2023, 12:34 p.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"Back then, she was pregnant with her first child. As someone living with HIV, she knew she would have a C-section, because a surgical delivery reduces the risk of transmitting it to the child – but she was shocked to be told by a physician during a check-up that she also had to be sterilized because of the disease. She wanted to have a large family and resisted, but she said they forced her sign a piece of paper agreeing to the procedure" (para 2). "In Honduras, there are no statistics that show how many women and girls with HIV have been involuntarily sterilized, but The Globe and Mail spoke...more
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"Back then, she was pregnant with her first child. As someone living with HIV, she knew she would have a C-section, because a surgical delivery reduces the risk of transmitting it to the child – but she was shocked to be told by a physician during a check-up that she also had to be sterilized because of the disease. She wanted to have a large family and resisted, but she said they forced her sign a piece of paper agreeing to the procedure" (para 2). "In Honduras, there are no statistics that show how many women and girls with HIV have been involuntarily sterilized, but The Globe and Mail spoke...more
Sept. 30, 2023, 4 p.m.
Countries: Kazakhstan
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee notes the 2014 amendments to the law on domestic violence of 2009 that provide for restraining and protection orders and social assistance to victims of domestic violence. It also takes note of the State party’s intention to adopt the bill on countering domestic violence and to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. However, the Committee notes with concern the following: The subjection of women with disabilities, in particular those living in institutions, to forced sterilization and forced abortion, police violence against women in prostitution, the mandatory gender reassignment surgery for transgender women for the purpose of legal gender...more
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee notes the 2014 amendments to the law on domestic violence of 2009 that provide for restraining and protection orders and social assistance to victims of domestic violence. It also takes note of the State party’s intention to adopt the bill on countering domestic violence and to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence. However, the Committee notes with concern the following: The subjection of women with disabilities, in particular those living in institutions, to forced sterilization and forced abortion, police violence against women in prostitution, the mandatory gender reassignment surgery for transgender women for the purpose of legal gender...more
Sept. 25, 2023, 8:02 a.m.
Countries: Guyana
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (9).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (9).
Sept. 22, 2023, 8:51 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (19).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (19).
Aug. 24, 2023, 1:08 a.m.
Countries: Cape Verde
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"[A]ll cases of gender-based violence against and of forced sterilizations of women and girls with disabilities are [not] duly investigated, [and] perpetrators are [not] prosecuted and adequately punished" (13).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"[A]ll cases of gender-based violence against and of forced sterilizations of women and girls with disabilities are [not] duly investigated, [and] perpetrators are [not] prosecuted and adequately punished" (13).
Aug. 15, 2023, 5:22 p.m.
Countries: Bahamas
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (12). Mentioning this indicates that they may be legal and do not occur frequently (MV- coder comment).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (12). Mentioning this indicates that they may be legal and do not occur frequently (MV- coder comment).
June 27, 2023, 11:16 p.m.
Countries: Algeria
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-DATA-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (29).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-DATA-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (29).
April 19, 2023, 6:17 p.m.
Countries: North Korea
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-DATA-1
"Deported from China in 2004, Lee Keum-Soon was mobilised for forced labour six months into a pregnancy she had concealed from authorities in fear of having her child forcibly aborted. When she became too weak to work, guards in a police holding camp made her carry rocks from a riverbed. Lee was found dead by her peers, floating in the river having drowned, exhausted. When guards saw she had layered on clothes to hide her pregnancy, they stripped the remaining women in the camp to 'ferret out' any children not yet forcibly aborted." (para 29-30).
Variables: CRPLB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-PRACTICE-1, ABO-DATA-1
"Deported from China in 2004, Lee Keum-Soon was mobilised for forced labour six months into a pregnancy she had concealed from authorities in fear of having her child forcibly aborted. When she became too weak to work, guards in a police holding camp made her carry rocks from a riverbed. Lee was found dead by her peers, floating in the river having drowned, exhausted. When guards saw she had layered on clothes to hide her pregnancy, they stripped the remaining women in the camp to 'ferret out' any children not yet forcibly aborted." (para 29-30).
Jan. 6, 2023, 10:37 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"Because of recurrent infections and pain, 17% of women cane-cutters in the district of Beed have had hysterectomies" (para 2). "[I]nstead of dealing with the infections, some doctors do hysterectomies. 'Without any thorough examination of the patient, doctors in private hospitals suggest hysterectomy which costs at least Rs 35,000. They create fear among these women by warning them that they could develop tumours and cancers,' Manisha Ghule, an activist, told BehanBox" (para 6). "Married at the age of 15 or 16, girls in the drought-affected Marathwada region become mothers in the next couple of years. And then, by the time they are 22 or 23 years old, they have a...more
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"Because of recurrent infections and pain, 17% of women cane-cutters in the district of Beed have had hysterectomies" (para 2). "[I]nstead of dealing with the infections, some doctors do hysterectomies. 'Without any thorough examination of the patient, doctors in private hospitals suggest hysterectomy which costs at least Rs 35,000. They create fear among these women by warning them that they could develop tumours and cancers,' Manisha Ghule, an activist, told BehanBox" (para 6). "Married at the age of 15 or 16, girls in the drought-affected Marathwada region become mothers in the next couple of years. And then, by the time they are 22 or 23 years old, they have a...more
Oct. 7, 2022, 4:17 p.m.
Countries: Portugal
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization on the part of government authorities (see Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), above, for additional information). Vulnerable populations had the ability to provide informed consent to medical treatment affecting reproductive health, including for sterilization" (13).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization on the part of government authorities (see Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), above, for additional information). Vulnerable populations had the ability to provide informed consent to medical treatment affecting reproductive health, including for sterilization" (13).
May 27, 2022, 11:45 a.m.
Countries: Serbia
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (26).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (26).
May 12, 2022, 5 p.m.
Countries: Panama
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (12).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (12).
April 29, 2022, 5:43 p.m.
Countries: Russia
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"[W]omen with disabilities, particularly women with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities, are subjected to forced sterilization" (12).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"[W]omen with disabilities, particularly women with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities, are subjected to forced sterilization" (12).
March 28, 2022, 8:57 p.m.
Countries: Latvia
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (13).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (13).
March 25, 2022, 10:05 p.m.
Countries: Kosovo
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (24).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (24).
March 25, 2022, 9:33 p.m.
Countries: Armenia
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (30).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (30).
March 25, 2022, 8:54 p.m.
Countries: United Arab Emirates
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (28).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (28).
March 15, 2022, 11:02 a.m.
Countries: Lithuania
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"The law prohibits coerced abortion and involuntary sterilization. In July the Kaunas Regional Court awarded 31,000 euros ($34,100) to a woman with cerebral palsy after a hospital in Lazdijai sterilized her involuntarily shortly after she gave birth" (12).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"The law prohibits coerced abortion and involuntary sterilization. In July the Kaunas Regional Court awarded 31,000 euros ($34,100) to a woman with cerebral palsy after a hospital in Lazdijai sterilized her involuntarily shortly after she gave birth" (12).
March 10, 2022, 10:53 p.m.
Countries: Lebanon
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (32).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (32).
March 10, 2022, 9:58 a.m.
Countries: Peru
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (14).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (14).
March 4, 2022, 6:57 p.m.
Countries: Fiji
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (16).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (16).
Feb. 28, 2022, 4:35 p.m.
Countries: El Salvador
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization"(19).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization"(19).
Feb. 28, 2022, 3:29 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (14).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (14).
Feb. 23, 2022, 3:02 p.m.
Countries: Senegal
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (15).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (15).
Feb. 17, 2022, 11:59 a.m.
Countries: Paraguay
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (14).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (14).
Feb. 11, 2022, 5:23 p.m.
Countries: Romania
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (23).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (23).
Feb. 11, 2022, 5 p.m.
Countries: Thailand
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (33).
Variables: FSCB-PRACTICE-1, FSCB-LAW-1
"There were no reports of coerced abortion or involuntary sterilization" (33).