This report is submitted by MAM (Autonomous Women’s Movement), CDC (Center for Constitutional Rights), MADRE and the IWHR (International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at City University of New York School of Law). 1 It addresses the recent repeal of the long‐standing exception under Nicaraguan law that allowed abortions for therapeutic reasons and in cases of rape and incest, and the subsequent enacted legislation that banned all forms of abortion, including medical procedures which result in harm to the fetus. The law, one of the most restrictive of its kind, criminalizes doctors who provide these necessary services and women who seek them or who, in desperation, self‐abort. This law violates the Nicaraguan Government’s obligations under Articles 2, and 16 of the Convention against Torture, and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.