#MyBodyMyRights: This powerful poster campaign by Amnesty International will change the way you view basic human rights

And still many countries across the world refuse to provide basic healthcare and amendment in prevailing laws to save lives

Credit: Amnesty International

We all know about Savita Halappanavar's death that called attention to archaic laws in Ireland over abortion laws.Savita's death at University Hospital in Galway brought focus on the Republic of Ireland's abortion laws and thereby gross violation of human rights.Post a Supreme Court ruling in 1992, known as the X case, abortion had been constitutionally available in the Republic of Ireland. But after much international outrage, the laws were amended a tad too late.

And bringing the focus to abortion laws,Amnesty International has been running several campaigns to bring focus to human rights violations an individuals rights to his/her own body. Recently, they launched#MyBodyMyRights campaign which focuses on laws and practices that prevent individuals from making personal choices that affect their health and well-being. Amnesty's tagline for the campaign reads, "Being able to make our own decisions about our health, body and sexual life is a basic human right. Yet all over the world, many of us are persecuted for making these choices or prevented from doing so at all."

Check out Amnesty's poster campaign Its real, powerful and painful!

The UNs report on Ireland has recommended that the countrys law should be revised to provide for additional exceptions in cases of rape, incest, serious risks to the health of the mother, or fatal fetal abnormality.

Picture credit: Amnesty International

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#MyBodyMyRights: This powerful poster campaign by Amnesty International will change the way you view basic human rights