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May 30, 2019

Latin American Rape Survivors Who Were Denied Abortions Appeal to U.N.
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In Geneva, Switzerland, four young women from Latin America who were
raped as children and denied abortions brought lawsuits Wednesday
against their governments before the U.N. Human Rights Committee. The
women, who are now between 18 and 23 years old, were 14 or younger when
they were raped in Nicaragua, Ecuador and Guatemala. All four dropped
out of school after discovering they were pregnant, and their rapists
were never brought to justice.


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