Briefing Papers

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Using the Millennium Development Goals to Realize Women's Reproductive Rights

01.30.09 - Using the Millennium Development Goals to Realize Women's Reproductive Rights…

Bringing Rights to Bear: Preventing Maternal Mortality and Ensuring Safe Pregnancy

01.14.09 - The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear…

Bringing Rights to Bear: Rights Within Marriage and the Family

01.14.09 - The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear…

Bringing Rights to Bear: Female Genital Mutilation and Other Harmful Practices

01.14.09 - The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear…

Bringing Rights to Bear: Abortion and Human Rights

01.14.09 - The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear…

The Holy See at the United Nations

The Reproductive Rights of Adolescents: A Tool for Health and Empowerment

Bringing Rights to Bear: Freedom from Violence is a Human Right

02.01.08 - The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear…

Bringing Rights to Bear: Human Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS and Other Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs)

01.01.08 - The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear…

Bringing Rights to Bear: The Human Right to Information on Sexual and Reproductive Health

01.01.08 - The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear…

Bringing Rights to Bear: Family Planning is a Human Right

01.01.08 - The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear…

Abortion Worldwide: Twelve Years of Reform

Bringing Rights to Bear: An Advocate’s Guide to the Work of UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive and Sexual Rights

The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: An Instrument for Advancing Reproductive and Sexual Rights

The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: An Instrument for Advancing Reproductive and Sexual Rights (French)

Adolescents Need Safe and Legal Abortion

Religious Voices Worldwide Support Choice: Pro-choice Perspectives in Five World Religions

Promote Access to the Full Range of Abortion Technologies: Remove Barriers to Medical Abortion

Setting the Record Straight: The Facts on Some Popular Myths About Abortion

Pregnant Women Living with HIV/AIDS: Protecting Human Rights in Programs to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

Safe Abortion: A Public Health Imperative

The Teen Endangerment Act: Harming Young Women Who Seek Abortion

Government in Action: Legal and Policy Developments Affecting Reproductive Rights

Beijing and International Law: UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies Uphold Reproductive Rights

Surviving Pregnancy and Childbirth: An International Human Right

Legislation on Female Genital Mutilation in the United States

Governments Worldwide Put Emergency Contraception into Women's Hands

Crafting an Abortion Law that Respects Women's Rights: Issues to Consider

Safe and Legal Abortion is a Woman's Human Right

Safe and Legal Abortion is a Woman’s Human Right

Step-by-Step Guide: Using the UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies to Promote Reproductive Rights

"Partial-Birth" Abortion Ban Legislation: By State

02.01.04 - On June 28, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska ban on so-called “partial-birth abortion,” finding it an unconstitutional violation of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that guaranteed women's right to choose abortion. The Supreme Court's decision in Stenberg v.…

Unconstitutional Assault of the Right to Choose: "Partial-Birth Abortion: Ban Is an Affort to Women and to the U.S. Supreme Court

Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers: Avoiding the "TRAP"

Penalized For Serving Their Country: The Ban On Abortion For Women In the Military

06.01.03 - What Is the Ban?

By statute, the United States government bans almost all abortion services at U.S. military hospitals and other medical facilities. Federal law provides that:

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