Women Should Never Give Birth in Shackles

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A woman in Australia. © 2008 Getty Images An incarcerated Indigenous woman was reportedly shackled during a hospital stay earlier this month to deliver her baby by caesarean section in a Queensland hospital in Australia.Queensland Corrective Services promised an internal review but did not confirm the shackling. Shackling a woman during childbirth contravenes international human rights standards.The incident happened days before Australia’s two major political parties blocked a vote in parliament on October 14 on a bill to ban the shackling of prisoners…

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