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Poland's parliament reject an abortion ban after women staged massive nationwide protests, in a devoutly Catholic nation where the law is already among the most restrictive in Europe. IMAGES
Women and activists hold a demonstration in front of the Polish public television station TVP building in Warsaw on the eighth straight day of mass protests over a court ruling to impose a near-total abortion ban in Poland. IMAGES
Women in Poland walk off the job and hit the streets, the seventh straight day of mass protests over a court ruling to impose a near-total abortion ban in Poland. IMAGES
Uganda's Constitutional Court rejects a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world. "We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement," Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda's deputy chief justice and head of the court, says in the landmark ruling. IMAGES
"My body, my choice", "IVG Constitution", "My body, my choice"... These messages were projected onto the Eiffel Tower in Paris with a "special sparkle" as Parliament voted in Congress to enshrine abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES
French MPs and Senators meeting in the Congress of Versailles have overwhelmingly voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the Constitution, announced the Speaker of the House, Yael Braun-Pivet, making France the first country in the world to do so explicitly. IMAGES
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