On August 26, 2024, Fransheska Companioni-Daroch (JD 2026), a practicum student of the International Human Rights Center at Loyola, and Megan Mars (JD 2023), an alumna of LLS and fellow at Science for Democracy, a Brussels-based NGO focusing on the promotion of the right to benefit from progress in science and technology, submitted an Amicus Curiae Brief to the Human Rights Committee in the case Center for Reproductive Rights and Centro de Derechos de la Mujer (on behalf of Fausia) v. Honduras.
After an initial request to intervene, the Human Rights Committee requested information regarding the transgenerational harm (including the situation of children born of rape) and the effects of sexual violence on the victim’s family (e.g. marginalization, suffering, disruption of family ties, damage to the family life project) and their victim status. The brief submitted addressed both topics and urged the committee to adopt policies allowing victims of rape to obtain abortions as well as making available gender-sensitive and trauma-informed resources to support victims and their family members.
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