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
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.
12.10.08 - In April 2005, Colombian citizen Monica Róa, a former Center
fellow and current attorney at Women's Link Worldwide, filed a petition
with the Colombian Constitutional Court challenging the
constitutionality of Colombia’s abortion law, which categorically
12.17.08 - On April 13, 2007, the Center filed a third party intervention in support of the national reproductive health and family planning regulations authorizing the free distribution of
12.10.08 - On June 5, 2008, in a landmark decision, the Colombian Council of State ruled against anti-choice groups' efforts to ban emergency contraception.
12.10.08 - In 2005, anti-choice organizations in Ecuador filed a suit to outlaw emergency contraception, alleging that EC violates the right to life as established in the Ecuadorian constitution.
12.10.08 - The Center submitted a petition before the UN Human Rights Committee challenging the refusal of Peruvian public health officials to perform a therapeutic abortion, though Peru’s laws permit it, and articulating this behavior as violating a myriad of human rights.
07.08.09 - In collaboration with national-level partners, the Center has brought a case before the CEDAW Committee challenging the Peruvian government’s lack of accountability regarding the provision of legal, therapeutic,
