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Nepalese lawyer and human rights expert
Melissa Upreti (born 1969) is a
Nepalese lawyer and human rights expert who was the founding attorney and regional director of the
Center for Reproductive Rights ' Asia program.
[1]
[2] She is the Senior Director of Program and Global Advocacy at the
Center for Women's Global Leadership at
Rutgers University
[3] and a member of the
United Nations
Working Group on
Discrimination against Women and Girls .
[4]
Upreti is a Nepalese citizen born in the
United Kingdom . She has a law degree from Nepal
[5] and an
LL.M. from
Columbia Law School .
[3] She is a
fellow of the
University of Toronto Law Faculty's International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program.
[3] She was a co-petitioner in the case Lakshmi Dhikta v Nepal , which recognised access to abortion as a constitutionally protected right in Nepal.
[3]
Upreti has written extensively on
reproductive rights .
Selected publications
Upreti, Melissa; Katzive, Laura (2002).
Abortion in Nepal: Women Imprisoned . Forum for Women, Law and Development.
ISBN
9781890671273 .
Upreti, Melissa (2004).
Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives, South Asia . Center for Reproductive Rights.
ISBN
9781890671105 .
Bogecho, Dina; Upreti, Melissa (2006). "The Global Gag Rule: An Antithesis to the Rights-Based Approach to Health". Health and Human Rights . 9 (1): 17–32.
doi :
10.2307/4065387 .
JSTOR
4065387 .
PMID
17061767 .
Upreti, M. (2014).
"Abortion law reform in Nepal" . International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics . 126 (2): 193–197.
doi :
10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.05.001 .
PMID
24890742 .
S2CID
9280168 .
Upreti, Melissa (2014). "Toward Transformative Equality in Nepal:The Lakshmi Dhikta Decision". In Rebecca J. Cook; Joanna N. Erdman; Bernard M.Dickens (eds.).
Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies . University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 279–302.
ISBN
9780812209990 .
Upreti, Melissa (2014). "Reproductive Rights in Nepal:From Criminalization to Resistance". In Julia Sudbury (ed.).
Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex . Routledge. pp. 271–284.
ISBN
9781317793670 .
Upreti, Melissa (27 July 2015).
"Miscarriage of justice" . The Kathmandu Post .
Upreti, Melissa (17 August 2016).
"India Holding Women Hostage to Unwanted Pregnancies" . News Deeply.
Upreti, Melissa; Jacob, Jihan (2018).
"The Philippines' new postabortion care policy" . International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics . 141 (2): 268–275.
doi :
10.1002/ijgo.12452 .
PMID
29377114 .
References