Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on El Salvador

This submission focuses on the topic of girls’ rights to access safe abortion and the protection of students, teachers, and schools during time of armed conflict. It proposes issues and questions that Committee members may wish to raise with the government. Access to Abortion (Articles 2, 6, 14, 16, 24, 37) El Salvador is one of six countries in Latin American and the Caribbean with a total ban on abortion in all circumstances, meaning that abortion is criminalized even when the life or health of the pregnant woman or girl is in danger, when the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, or when the…

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