05.08.13 - Just weeks after issuing a landmark decision in the Center’s epic battle to make emergency contraception available to all women without a prescription, Judge Edward Korman was back behind the bench, once again lambasting the federal government for keeping this vital health care component beyond…
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…
04.04.13 -
As of April 1, women in France who need an abortion can get one without worrying about whether they can afford it. The government will pay 100 percent of
the cost. The legislation also includes a measure to pay for the total cost of contraception for adolescent girls age 15 to 18…
03.22.13 -
This month, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) condemned Hungary for two types of abortion restrictions
that are on the rise both in Europe and in the US—mandatory waiting periods and biased counseling laws…
03.07.13 -
This week, Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, presented a groundbreaking…
01.09.13 -
Put 2012 against any year since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, in 1973, and you would be hard pressed to find a period that offered
as many highs and lows as the past 12 months.
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…
12.18.12 -
A landmark reproductive health bill that has been in the making for more than a decade was passed just days ago in both the Philippines House of
Representatives and the Senate,
12.13.12 -
Texas has some of the most abysmal reproductive health indicators in the U.S. It ranks #4 in highest teenage pregnancy rates, yet
Texas still chose to slash the budget for family-planning services by two-thirds…
The new federal requirement that private health insurance cover the cost of birth control has generated much heated controversy these last few
weeks: Congressional hearings, proposed legislation to unwind it, multiple legal actions…
The Obama Administration’s recently announced policy to require insurers to cover contraception as women’s preventive health care has
prompted many over-heated…
