Rwanda denies sterilisation plans

BBC News
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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Rwanda has strongly denied reports that its parliament is considering a draft law which would forcibly sterilise people who are mentally disabled.

Damascene Ntawukuriryayo, deputy speaker of parliament, was responding to a call by US-based activists Human Rights Watch to scrap the proposed law.

He also told the BBC that plans for HIV testing before couples get married are strictly voluntary, not compulsory.

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Mr Ntawukuriryayo said the lobby group should check before releasing reports.

He said he had never seen a bill or provision which proposed forcible sterilisation.

Earlier, HRW’s Joe Amon had said: “Provisions in the current bill that increase stigma, rely on coercion and deny… reproductive rights should be removed.”

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