Uznesenia Európskeho parlamentu

EP Resolution of 11 June 2015 on Paraguay: legal aspects related to child pregnancy

Members urged the Paraguayan authorities to conduct an independent and impartial investigation and to bring the perpetrator to justice. They consider it regrettable that women's and girls' bodies, specifically with respect to their sexual health and reproductive rights, still remain an ideological battleground and called on Paraguay to recognise the inalienable rights of women and girls to bodily integrity and autonomous decision-making as regards, inter alia, the right to access voluntary family planning and safe and legal abortion. They believe that the general prohibition on therapeutic abortion and abortion of pregnancies resulting from rape and incest, and the refusal to provide free health cover in cases of rape, amounts to torture.

Lastly, it called the EU-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Heads of State or Government, at their second summit, to augment the chapter on gender-based violence in the EU-CELAC Action Plan 2013-2015.