In July 2011, the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) urged the governments of Nepal, Costa Rica, and Zambia to improve their record on reproductive rights. The Center for Reproductive Rights, along with our partners, played an important role by submitting shadow letters that informed the CEDAW Committee’s recommendations. Nepal: Despite […]
On May 25, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Asociación Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir, the Centro de Investigación y Promoción para América Central de Derechos Humanos, Law Students for Reproductive Justice of the University of Washington School of Law, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Agenda Política de Mujeres, the Alianza de […]
On May 26, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the 49th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the status of reproductive and sexual health and rights in Zambia. Women and girls in Zambia languish because of the high prevalence of maternal mortality and morbidity. […]
On June 7, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Justice for All, and the Women’s Reproductive Rights Program of the Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development submitted a shadow letter to the 49th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls in Nepal. […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/tcidt-feat-img.jpeg A woman living with HIV in Chile is forcibly sterilized while unconscious and undergoing a cesarean delivery. A Kenyan woman, along with her newborn child, is detained for weeks by hospital staff in miserable conditions. Her crime is poverty, she has no money to pay her medical bill. In Peru, a young girl lives […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/w-a-d-img.jpeg When doctors in India found out that Gita Bai was HIV-positive, they denied her pre-natal care. She soon returned to the hospital when contractions started—and the doctors physically barred her from entering the building. Gita delivered her child on the street outside the hospital. Doctors finally admitted her a couple days later when she […]
The Centre for Health and Resource Management (CHARM) v. State of Bihar is a public interest case that seeks to hold the Government of India accountable for the poor conditions in public health facilities in the state of Bihar. This case was filed after Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) undertook a fact-finding mission in Munger, […]
by Luisa Cabal, Director of International Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights Beatrice Wajiku was not a typical 14-year-old. Like most young girls, she enjoyed playing in the neighborhood and sharing secrets with friends. But unlike most teenagers she was the primary breadwinner for a family that had been wholly devastated by unbelievable poverty, crime, […]
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 a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Download the […]
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 a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Case filed: […]