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    To Stop Violence Against Women Respect for Women's Human Rights is Essential

    Amnesty International, 2007
    Violence against women and girls is a global pandemic, which often manifests itself as sexual violence in one form or another. This collection of stories, testimonies and recollections of girls and women - from Mexico, Colombia, China and Sudan - shows how women's freedoms are dependent on their sexual and reproductive rights, particularly those to safe and legal abortion.
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    Compendium of Indicators for Evaluating Reproductive Health Programs Volume 1

    MEASURE Evaluation, 2002
    This tool for post-abortion care (PAC) indicators forms part of a larger compendium designed for reproductive health programmes. It provides a comprehensive listing of the most widely used indicators, in order to encourage programme evaluation and improve the quality of work in developing countries.
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    Unsafe Abortion: The Preventable Pandemic

    World Health Organization, 2006
    To what extent is unsafe abortion a global problem? What is the incidence and impact in different regions, and what have recent trends meant for access to safe and legal abortion services? What is clear, is that health statistics often underreport the incidence of these procedures.
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    Why Yes to Therapeutic Abortion?

    BRIDGE, 2007
    On 26 October 2006, the National Assembly in Nicaragua approved the criminalisation of therapeutic abortion, i.e. the termination of pregnancy before foetal viability in order to preserve maternal health. As a direct result of this, maternal mortality rates increased dramatically.
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    From Women, Medicine and Faith: Three Voices for the Right to Life

    BRIDGE, 2006
    Catholics for a Free Choice's sister organisation in Nicaragua, Cat¢licas por el Derecho a Decidir, is a group of Catholic women of different professions and from different regions who believe in women's legitimate right to decide about motherhood. In this document, they collect three articles that analyse issues around abortion from a feminist, medical and theological perspective.
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    It is our Decision. Abortion: a Right to Save Women's Lives

    BRIDGE, 2006
    The decision to terminate pregnancy is very complex. Between 2001 and 2005, Ipas, in alliance with the women's movement in Central America organised many initiatives and events to build awareness around the need to recognise reproductive rights, the lack of access to safe abortion public services and the impact that all of this has on women's lives.
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    High Impact Litigation in Colombia: the Unconstitutional Nature of Abortion (LAICIA)

    2006
    By strategically working with the courts in Colombia, the international organisation Women's Link Worldwide contributed towards achieving the liberalisation of Colombia's abortion law.
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    Let's Talk about Abortion, a Personal and Difficult Decision

    2000
    Abortion in Nicaragua is illegal, so women who do not want to carry their pregnancy to term have no other option than recurring to clandestine abortion clinics that are very expensive or to backstreet abortion, which is unsafe and dangerous.
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    Decide - Youth Coalition for Sexual Citizenship

    Decidir, 2007
    Abortion is illegal under many circumstances in Latin American and Caribbean countries, but despite heavy restrictions, nearly 4 million women across the region seek unsafe, clandestine abortions every year and two-thirds of them are between the ages of 15 and 30.
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    Literature on Unsafe Abortion in Africa

    Centre Population et Developpement, 2006
    This publication (available on CD-rom as well as online) contains an interactive and searchable bibliographical database of resources published between 1990 and 2005. It aims to map out what is known about induced abortion (particularly unsafe) in Africa. It is essentially based on research from thematic social science and medical databases, as well as documentation from other sources.

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