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.
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
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.
