Ecuador: Government Should End Criminalization of Abortion

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Women from different organizations that are part of the Justa Libertad movement raise green scarves outside the Constitutional Court of Ecuador in Quito, March 19, 2024. © 2024 Karen Toro (Quito) – The government of Ecuador has an obligation to decriminalize abortion in all circumstances, and to remove all barriers that prevent access to this essential healthcare service, Human Rights Watch said today in an amicus brief submitted to the Constitutional Court of Ecuador.The Human Rights Watch brief supports a lawsuit filed by Justa Libertad, an Ecuadorian…

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