Melissa Upreti

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

1. Culp-Ressler, Tara (9 March 2015). "Abortion Bans Are Putting Women Behind Bars". Think Progress. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
2. "Child Marriages in Nepal: A Long-standing Concern Awaiting Eradication!". Nepali Sansar. 26 August 2018.
3. "Melissa Upretti, Independent Expert". Nairobi Summit. 21 October 2019.
4. "Melissa Upreti: Senior Director, Program and Global Advocacy". Rutgers.
5. Julia Sudbury, ed. (18 March 2014). Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Routledge. p. 299year=2014. ISBN   9781317793670.