Mainstreaming the ‘Abortion question’ into the right to health in Uganda
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Date
2021
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Dullah Omar Institute
Abstract
The right to health is a social and economic right that requires progressive realisation by
states (Chenwi 2013). Although Uganda’s Constitution does not provide for the right to health,
the country is a signatory to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (UN General Assembly 1966). The Constitution contains other social and economic
rights, such as the right to education, but the lack of the right to health has prompted several
recommendations by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ (CESCR) that
Uganda take legislative and other measures to ratify and apply the rights in the ICESCR.
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Abortion, Uganda, Public health, Women, Poverty
Citation
Nanima, R. D. (2021). Mainstreaming the “abortion question” into the right to health in Uganda. ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa,3(1). https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-1173a4c986