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CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan

04.23.13 -  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently issued concluding observations from its February review of Pakistan's compliance with CEDAW and called out the government for lack of access to health care and policies that routinely ignore…

Zambia Accepts Several Universal Periodic Review Recommendations Sourced to Input from the Center for Reproductive Rights

01.29.13 -  In November 2012, the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Working Group  released its recommendations on Zambia…

Concluding Observations on Tanzania Recommend a Number of Reforms

01.08.13 -  In August, the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) regarding sexual and reproductive rights in Tanzania…

Concluding Observations and Shadow Letter on Tanzania, 2012

01.04.13 - In August, the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) regarding sexual and reproductive rights in Tanzania…

Reproductive Rights: A Tool for Monitoring State Obligations

01.03.13 - The Monitoring Tool provides a means to monitor the implementation of specific State obligations in the field of reproductive rights…

Ireland’s Abortion Law: Lives At Risk

11.20.12 -  Last month, Savita Halapannavar arrived at Galway Hospital 17 weeks into her pregnancy and suffering from severe back pains…

RH Reality Check: Silence and Denial Don't Work: Ireland, Malta, the European Union and the Lessons of Savita's Death

11.20.12 -  Much has been said about the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar in Galway, Ireland last month…

European Court of Human Rights Issues Judgment in Z v. Poland

11.19.12 -  This week the European Court of Human Rights issued a disappointing judgment in Z v. Poland, a case brought by a mother, known as Z, on behalf of her daughter, a pregnant woman who died as a result of having been denied necessary and available medical care for a treatable disease…

International Day of Decriminalization of Abortion: A Look at Nearly Two Decades of Abortion Law Reform

09.27.12 -  In 2008, Manuela, a 33-year-old mother of two from El Salvador, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison after suffering severe complications giving birth. From the moment that she arrived at the hospital seeking emergency health care, slipping in and out of…

Time for Action

08.09.12 -  In August 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) struck a blow for women worldwide when it recognized—in the first preventable maternal death case to go before an international human rights body—that governments have an inescapable…