12.10.08 - In a brief filed before the CEDAW Committee, the Center asks the Committee to issue a decision requiring Brazil to compensate Alyne da Silva Pimentel’s surviving family, including her 9-year-old daughter, and prioritize the reduction of
12.15.04 - Filing date: Case admitted to IACHR in March 2004 Country/Region: LAC Plaintiff(s): Patients of Dr. Gerardo Escalante López and Dr. Delia Ribas who were fertilized with in-vitro fertilization techniques
07.20.11 - CHARM v. State of Bihar and Others
is a public interest litigation petition filed in March 2011 by the Center’s
partner in India, Human Rights Law Network.
08.14.09 - Attorneys from HRLN conducted a fact-finding mission in 2010 that led to the subsequent withdrawal of the case in favor of refiling based on fresh evidence documenting reproductive rights violations in Bihar.
12.10.08 - In May 2007, The Center for Reproductive Rights and Yale University's Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic submitted a joint friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court of Nicaragua.
06.28.11 - This case challenges the constitutionality of onerous
temporary regulations and a sham licensing process adopted and implemented by
the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) that will cause most of
the abortion providers in the State to cease providing ongoing
06.01.10 - A case challenging a county ordinance that allows for increased government access to confidential patient records and imposes a special set of stringent requirements on doctors who practice in Fort Wayne-Allen County, but live outside of the area and do not have privileges to admit patients at
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
