Women in Nepal still in jail for abortion, despite change to law.Even though the government legalised abortion last year, nearly 60 women are still languishing lan·guish intr.v. lan·guished, lan·guish·ing, lan·guish·es 1. To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor. 2. in Nepalese jails on abortion charges, a women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and group said in June. Until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links last year, all abortions were prohibited and violators risked being sentenced to between three years and life in prison. Then the government introduced a law allowing women to terminate unwanted pregnancies. "Our study shows that there are 59 women still in jail on charges of abortion, despite the government legalising abortion last year," said Sapana Malla Pradhan of the Forum for Women, Law and Development. Pradhan said that although the law has come into force, the government had failed to address the situation of those women already serving prison terms. Her organisation filed a petition with King Gyanendra seeking amnesty for these women. "We are hopeful the king will grant their release on his birthday," Pradhan said, referring to the tradition where the king pardons a number of prisoners to mark his birthday in July. Under the new abortion law Abortion law is legislation which pertains to the provision of abortion. Abortion has at times emerged as a controversial subject in various societies because of the moral and ethical issues that surround it, though other considerations, such as a state's pro- or antinatalist , women are allowed to terminate pregnancies within the first 12 weeks, and up to 18 weeks in cases resulting from rape or incest. If the pregnancy poses a danger to the physical or mental health of the mother, or if the fetus is abnormal, the law permits the woman to have an abortion at any time. Nepal has one of the highest maternal mortality rates maternal mortality rate Epidemiology The number of pregnancy-related deaths/100,000 ♀ of reproductive age; the number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by number of live births–or number of live births + fetal deaths/yr. in Asia. The WHO estimates the rate of maternal deaths in childbirth at 1,500 per 100,000 live births. Women's rights activists This article is a list of notable women's rights activists. List
(Associated Press Worldstream, 26. 06. 03) |
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