Maternal Death

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CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan

04.23.13 -  The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently issued concluding observations from its February review of Pakistan's compliance with CEDAW and called out the government for lack of access to health care and policies that routinely ignore…

Concluding Observations on Tanzania Recommend a Number of Reforms

01.08.13 -  In August, the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) regarding sexual and reproductive rights in Tanzania…

Ireland’s Abortion Law: Lives At Risk

11.20.12 -  Last month, Savita Halapannavar arrived at Galway Hospital 17 weeks into her pregnancy and suffering from severe back pains…

European Court of Human Rights Issues Judgment in Z v. Poland

11.19.12 -  This week the European Court of Human Rights issued a disappointing judgment in Z v. Poland, a case brought by a mother, known as Z, on behalf of her daughter, a pregnant woman who died as a result of having been denied necessary and available medical care for a treatable disease…

International Day of Decriminalization of Abortion: A Look at Nearly Two Decades of Abortion Law Reform

09.27.12 -  In 2008, Manuela, a 33-year-old mother of two from El Salvador, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison after suffering severe complications giving birth. From the moment that she arrived at the hospital seeking emergency health care, slipping in and out of…

Time for Action

08.09.12 -  In August 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) struck a blow for women worldwide when it recognized—in the first preventable maternal death case to go before an international human rights body—that governments have an inescapable…

A Call for Action in Kenya

05.30.12 -  On May 3, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights released an exhaustive report on the state of the country's sexual and reproductive rights. And the Commission stated, in no uncertain terms, that the Kenyan government has much work to do to ensure that the country's people are protected and respected when it comes to their sexual and reproductive health. This is one of the first reports from a national human rights institution on these issues in the region…

Human Rights Day 2011

12.09.11 - “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”…

The UN Speaks Out: Women Must Have the Right to Health, the Right to Decide

11.03.11 - Last week, the General Assembly of the United Nations heard a blunt, emphatic message: No longer should the world tolerate the tragic, avoidable deaths of tens of thousands of women forced to seek out unsafe, illegal abortions every year…

Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, et al. v. Terry Cline, et al.

10.05.11 - This litigation challenges a law that would impose severe restrictions on physicians’ ability to provide medical care to women seeking pregnancy terminations that serve no legitimate purpose and run afoul of all available medical evidence.

Filing Date: 10/5/2011

Status: 
Open
Owner: 
The Center
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