Research seminar with Dr. Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska
The research environment Law, Space and Justice would like to welcome you all to the following research seminar with Dr. Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska (Poznań Human Rights Centre, Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences):
Admissibility of Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Foetal Impairments and the CRPD
24 April 2023 13-15, Calonia Cal2111 (in person only)
The aim of the research is to analyse the admissibility of termination of pregnancy in case of foetal impairments, in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the practice of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Cttee). It attempts to answer the following questions: does the CRPD oblige its States Parties to protect the right to life of a foetus with impairments? What are the obligations imposed by the CRPD on its States Parties with regard to protecting the reproductive rights of women, including access to abortion? Does simultaneous implementation of both these provisions of the CRPD create a conflict?
Based on a historical review of the CRPD and the practice of the CRPD Cttee, it is demonstrated that although the CRPD does not guarantee the right to life of the foetus, in specific circumstances the CRPD Cttee has challenged the conformity of national laws allowing for the termination in case of foetal impairments as a violation of the prohibition of discrimination based on disability. At the same time, the CRPD and the CRPD Cttee’s practice establish progressive standards for women’s reproductive rights that may be in conflict with the aforementioned prohibition.
Katarzyna Sękowska-Kozłowska – PhD in law; assistant professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences; director of the Poznań Human Rights Centre of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences; member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Gender and Identity Studies of Adam Mickiewicz University. Expert of the European Commission and Council of Europe. Her field of research is international human rights law with focus on gender issues.
Full profile: http://www.phrc.pl/katarzyna-sekowska-kozlowska/?lang=en
k.sekowska-kozlowska@inp.pan.pl