12.10.08 - The A.S. v. Hungary complaint was filed under the Optional Protocol to CEDAW on behalf of a Hungarian woman of Roma origin who was coercively sterilized in a public hospital.
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
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
07.15.11 - This case challenges provisions of North Dakota House Bill
1297, passed during the 2011 legislative session, which would effectively ban
all medication abortions in the state by requiring compliance with conditions
for the provision of “abortion-inducing drugs” that are impossible to
meet.
12.10.08 - Paola Guzmán, a student in Ecuador, had been sexually abused by her school's vice-principal for two years when, at the age of 16, she became pregnant. She committed suicide after learning of her pregnancy.
