On June 24, the Supreme Court of the United States (USA) reversed constitutional guarantees that gave American women the right to terminate their pregnancies.. (BBC) Today the procedure is prohibited in several states conservatives in the country. “This decision is very unfortunate,” said Faith Dikeledi Pansy Tlakula, a CERD expert originally from South Africa.
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Faith asked american authorities, both federal and from each state, that work to ensure access to safe abortion for “racial minorities, indigenous and low-income women”.
Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
The committee, made up of 18 independent experts who evaluate the scenario of racial discrimination in each country, concluded that the American future will have a “profound and disparate impact”, especially in relation to “sexual and reproductive health and the human rights of racial minorities and ethnic.”
historical reparation
Also in the report, the committee says it is “concerned that the stubborn legacy of colonialism and slavery continues to fuel racism and racial discrimination [in the United States] and undermine the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms ”.
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Experts asked that Congress and US President Joe Biden, create a “commission to study and develop proposals for reparations for African Americans.”
According to several members of the commission told the press, American authorities expressed their willingness to do so, but without providing a timetable.
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Curto Curatorship
- Nearly a third of low-income Asian women now live in states with limited abortion access (NBC News)
- 400 authors demand that streaming companies protect employees from anti-abortion policy in the US
- Abortion ban expands across the United States (UOL)
- Understand what legal abortion is and how it is done in Brazil (G1)
- Misinformation about abortion increases in Latino communities (Axios)*
