e-641 (Infertility)
- Keywords
- Civil and human rights
- Infertility
- Information dissemination
- Reproductive health
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- The condition of barrenness, which is the inability of women and men to conceive their children or to successfully produce them, affects approximately 100 million couples worldwide. It has numerous emotional and psychological consequences, particularly for women who often experience strong feelings of guilt, profound sadness, and decreased value as a woman and as a spouse or partner;
- For many, the appalling treatment from others in their communities heightens their anguish;
- In 2016, barren women in several countries continue to be written off as “useless”, viewed as “burdens” to their communities, referred to as being cursed by “evil spirits”, and dreadfully abused, psychologically and emotionally; and
- With the World Health Organization prediction that infertility and sterility (i.e. barrenness) will be the third-most serious disease worldwide in the 21st century, after cancer and cardiovascular diseases, it is paramount that social advancement of barrenness is initiated.
- Open for signature
- November 8, 2016, at 3:21 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- March 8, 2017, at 3:21 p.m. (EDT)