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
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
05.20.09 - In late 2005, the Center began a partnership with FWLD to develop two public interest cases on reproductive rights. One was Lakshmi Dhikta v. Government of Nepal, filed as a public interest case under the new constitutional provision on February 22, 2007.
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.
