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    Seeing is Believing: Questions about Faith-Based Organizations That Are Involved in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment

    Catholics for Choice, 2010
    Faith-based organisations have long been on the front lines of healthcare provision, and they receive enormous amounts of public money to do so. Unfortunately, many of these providers do not provide a full range of preventative care, especially advice on the use of and access to condoms to prevent the spread of HIV.
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    Anticoncepción de Emergencia: católicas y católicos a favor, obispos en contra

    Catholics for Choice, 2011
    Catholics for Choice y el Consorcio Internacional sobre la Anticoncepción de Emergencia anuncian el lanzamiento de la versión en español de su publicación, <<Anticoncepción de Emergencia: católicas y católicos a favor, obispos en contra>>.
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    Sexuality, Culture and Politics - A South American Reader

    2013
    Although mature and vibrant, Latin American scholarship on sexuality still remains largely invisible to a global readership. In this collection of articles translated into English from Portuguese and Spanish, South American scholars explore the values, practices, knowledge, moralities and politics of sexuality in a variety of local contexts.
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    Child Marriage in South Asia

    Center for Food Safety, 2013
    Child marriage is a human rights crisis occurring on an alarming scale in South Asia. South Asia accounts for almost half of all child marriages that occur globally. Child marriage does not constitute a single rights violation; rather, every instance of it triggers a continuum of violations that continues throughout a girl’s life.
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    Dr. John Nyamu Talks about Access to Abortion in Kenya

    International Women's Health Coalition, 2014
    In 2010, Kenya passed a new constitution that expands the right to abortion. However, many doctors in public health facilities are unaware or misinformed about this, and refuse to perform abortive procedures.
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    Prof. Joseph Karanja talks about unsafe abortion in Kenya

    International Women's Health Coalition, 2014
    In this video, Professor Joseph Karanja, MD speaks about abortion in Kenya. He describes the case of a patient who arrived at a public hospital with post-abortion symptoms. Her uterus had to be removed because the illegal abortion she underwent had damaged it beyond repair. The woman’s treatment was expensive, and she was not able to pay for it. Dr.
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    Rape Victims as Criminals: Illegal Abortion after Rape in Ecuador

    Human Rights Watch, 2013
    This 26-page report found that Ecuador’s criminal code limits women’s and girls’ reproductive rights by prohibiting abortion with few exceptions, even in the case of pregnancies that result from sexual violence. The criminal code imposes penalties including prison terms ranging from one to five years for women and girls who obtain abortions.
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    Religious-Based Political Parties and Groups Continue to Resist Women’s SRHRs in Brazil

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    What abortion legislation currently exists in Brazil? What role have religious groups played in advancing or impeding women’s rights in Brazil?
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    Una oportunidad para reparar injusticias

    2014
    In El Salvador, women are criminalised for suffering the effects or complications of a non-hospital birth, premature or full-term, which often result in the death of the newborn.
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    Socorristas en Red - Socorro Rosa: A feminist practice for the right to choose in Argentina

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2014
    Abortion is illegal in Argentina, with three exceptions: when the pregnancy was the result of a rape or abuse against a woman with a mental disability, and when the pregnant woman’s life or health are at risk. However, even these cases often end up before the courts, and women continue to undergo surgical clandestine abortions that put their lives at risk.

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