Accountability Bodies

In The Spotlight

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

11.21.11 - Thirty years ago, women’s rights activists first marked November 25 as the day on which the world would demand an end to all physical and sexual abuse targeted at women…

In Focus: Uganda

11.17.11 - The Center for Reproductive Rights has embarked on a series of new projects in Uganda as part of its wider work in the African region…

A Girl Who Changed the World, A Victory for Women Everywhere

11.15.11 - In 2009, a girl from Peru named L.C. demanded justice.

Two years earlier, she needed an abortion—had a legal right to abortion—and was denied, suffering irrevocable harm. L.C. wanted to hold an entire government accountable, her doctors responsible, for failing her just when she needed their help most…

Decision: L.C. v. Peru

11.09.11 - In a groundbreaking decision issued in …

Center’s Shadow Letter to the Human Rights Committee on The Republic of Moldova

11.07.11 - In October 2011 the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Moldovan Institute for Human Rights (IDOM) submitted a letter to the Country Report Task Forces of the Human Rights Committee…

Organizations Respond to U.N. Special Rapporteur's Report

11.06.11 - Human rights, women’s rights and health organizations released a signed letter this week in support of the report by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, which was presented on October 24, 2011 to the U.N. General Assembly…

The UN Speaks Out: Women Must Have the Right to Health, the Right to Decide

11.03.11 - Last week, the General Assembly of the United Nations heard a blunt, emphatic message: No longer should the world tolerate the tragic, avoidable deaths of tens of thousands of women forced to seek out unsafe, illegal abortions every year…

Radical Disregard for Life: The Criminalization of Abortion and the Death of a Young Girl in Kenya

10.26.11 - Beatrice Wajiku was not a typical 14-year-old. Like most young girls, she enjoyed playing in the neighborhood and sharing secrets with friends. But unlike most teenagers she was the primary breadwinner for a family that had been wholly devastated by unbelievable poverty, crime, and…

Amicus Brief: Gauer and Others v. France

10.21.11 - In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in France who were forcibly sterilized—arguing that forced sterilization constitutes…