El Salvador Women And Girls Case Study
Amnesty International is a Non Governmental Organization which was founded in 1961 by a British lawyer named Peter Benenson. It all started when Peter Benenson who was angry about how two Portuguese students were jailed just for raising a toast to freedom wrote an article and launched a campaign that provoked an unbelievable response around the world and this brought up the idea that people from different countries can unite in solidarity for justice and freedom. This organization for human rights focuses on human rights with more than 7 million members and supporters around the world. Their mission is to campaign for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all and also focusing on preventing and ending serious abuses of human rights. Their
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El Salvador has one of the most severe abortion laws in the world, criminalizing abortion on all grounds, even to the extent when a woman or girls’ health is in danger and even in the case of rape. Women and girls suspected of having illegal abortions are also often harshly and intentionally charged with murder and this was in Guadalupe’s case. Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez was jailed for 30 years in 2007 on falsified murder charges after suffering miscarriage when she was 18. Her case was treated so badly that they suspected her of having an abortion even though she had a miscarriage and since abortion is banned in El Salvador her case was worse. Due to severe laws on abortion cases in their country, they did not even take their time to investigate whether it was truly a miscarriage or an abortion as they claimed, but they went ahead and accused her wrongly and afterwards they directly sentenced her to jail for a crime she never committed and she had to go through an ordeal which she shouldn’t have gone through. With the intervention of a local human rights activist of the Amnesty International she has been released in 2015. Her case will serve as a lesson for El Salvador and their authorities to amend their laws which punish women and girls when having medical complications during their
El Salvador has one of the most severe abortion laws in the world, criminalizing abortion on all grounds, even to the extent when a woman or girls’ health is in danger and even in the case of rape. Women and girls suspected of having illegal abortions are also often harshly and intentionally charged with murder and this was in Guadalupe’s case. Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez was jailed for 30 years in 2007 on falsified murder charges after suffering miscarriage when she was 18. Her case was treated so badly that they suspected her of having an abortion even though she had a miscarriage and since abortion is banned in El Salvador her case was worse. Due to severe laws on abortion cases in their country, they did not even take their time to investigate whether it was truly a miscarriage or an abortion as they claimed, but they went ahead and accused her wrongly and afterwards they directly sentenced her to jail for a crime she never committed and she had to go through an ordeal which she shouldn’t have gone through. With the intervention of a local human rights activist of the Amnesty International she has been released in 2015. Her case will serve as a lesson for El Salvador and their authorities to amend their laws which punish women and girls when having medical complications during their