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
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.
11.21.08 - The Center brought this case on behalf of ten women targeted by a "Search and Arrest" policy initiated in 1989 by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and local law enforcement officials.
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
03.29.12 -
This is a pre-election challenge to a blatantly unconstitutional ballot initiative proposed in Oklahoma that would define a fertilized egg as a "person," thereby banning abortion and most forms of contraception, as well as interfering with fertility treatments and care provided to
