Colombia Partially Decriminalizes Abortion in Historic Ruling

CCPR Centre welcomes the recent ruling by 🇨🇴 #Colombia’s Constitutional Court decriminalizing #abortion on all grounds up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. Ensuring that women do not have to resort to clandestine abortions is a recommendation made by the 🇺🇳#HRCttee #ICCPR #abortolegal pic.twitter.com/nt5JVnoO0Q

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“It’s an awakening of women’s rights,” Executive Director of Women’s Equality Center Paula Avila-Guillen told Al Jazeera. “We’ve arrived at a moment in which we were tired of being left behind … and just started reclaiming our rights. For many years we were just waiting.”