Policing the Womb: The Re-Criminalisation of Abortion in Kenya
Every day in Kenya, approximately seven women die from unsafe abortions. This statistic represents a preventable tragedy driven by a legal environment where the 1963 Penal Code remains in direct...
The ECtHR’s use of Minimalist Strategies in Reproductive Cases: A Limit to the Conceptualization of Reproductive Rights
On 13 November 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (‘Court’) delivered its judgment in AR v Poland. An applicant alleged a violation of Article 8 of the ECHR, arguing...
Reproductive Agency is not a Courtesy, It’s a Right of a Woman with Intellectual Disabilities in India
Almost a decade after the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“RPWD”) Act, 2016, women with intellectual disabilities (WID) continue to have their reproductive rights miscast as matters of protection rather...
Litigating for Reproductive Justice in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Antigua and Dominica Illuminate the Path
Across the Commonwealth Caribbean, the spectre of colonialism continues to impede women’s full and free exercise of reproductive autonomy on a basis of equality with men. Significantly, with the sole...
The Global Gag Rule as a Human Rights Crisis: Restricting Autonomy and Healthcare Access
In January 2025, the newly inaugurated Trump administration reaffirmed and broadened the so-called Global Gag Rule (GGR), a policy preventing foreign NGOs receiving US funding from providing or even discussing...
Gender and Justice: Navigating the Arguments Around Prenatal Sex Detection in Bangladesh
The High Court Division (HCD) of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh has directed authorities to adhere to guidelines that discourage (without prohibiting) the disclosure of a foetus’s sex for non-medical...
Buffer Zones: Time to Rethink Abortion and the Carceral State?
On 31 Oct 2024, legislation enacting “buffer zones”—designated areas around abortion clinics where protests and certain forms of interference are prohibited—came into force in England and Wales under the Public...
Decisional Autonomy: Unrealised Right under India’s Abortion Law?
Legislative discussions surrounding the 2020 Amendment Bill to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (‘Act’) stated that it is an effort in ensuring autonomy for women who desire to...
Reproductive Rights and the Judicial Attitudes in Recent Abortion Cases in Strasbourg: Will Women’s Suffering Ever Be ‘Severe’ Enough? Part 2
As discussed in Part 1 of this blog, the European Court of Human Rights did not find a violation of Article 3 of the ECHR (prohibition against torture) in the...
Reproductive Rights and the Judicial Attitudes in Recent Abortion Cases in Strasbourg: Will Women’s Suffering Ever Be ‘Severe’ Enough? Part 1
On 14 December 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) released its ML v Poland judgment. As the ECtHR did not find a violation of Article 3 of the...
The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Iraq
The Republic of Iraq ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1986 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...
If Frozen Embryos Are Unborn Children Then What Is IVF’s Future in the United States?
In Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade(1973), and the fate of reproductive freedom fell to the political whims of state...
