Supreme Court Denies Review of Arizona Abortion Restrictions, Politically Motivated Law Remains Blocked by Court Order (PRESS RELEASE) The United States Supreme Court today declined to review an Arizona law that would severely limit women’s access to medication abortion, an extremely safe method of ending a pregnancy in its earliest stages. The measure will remain […]
Bajo la prohibición absoluta del aborto en El Salvador, 17 mujeres han sido injustamente criminalizadas y encarceladas. Con una de las restricciones más extremas del mundo, El Salvador prohíbe que las mujeres acceden un aborto en todos los casos, ni siquiera para salvar sus vidas o en casos de violaciones sexuales o incesto. Desde 1998, […]
Cinco Estados recomiendan al Estado de Costa Rica garantizar el acceso a los servicios de salud reproductiva El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos junto con la organización aliada local, “Grupo a Favor del In Vitro”, presentaron un reporte ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos (CDH) de las Naciones Unidas en abril de 2014 para la revisión […]
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U.N. Committee Denounces Romania for Denying Women Reproductive Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (U.N. CESCR) has called on the Romanian government to revise its laws and policies to ensure access to reproductive health care for women and adolescents in the country. In its recommendations, issued on 28 […]
United Nations Secretary-General Reaffirms Reproductive Rights Are Central to Development U.N. Releases Post-2015 Development Agenda Report Calling on Governments to Fulfill Human Rights Obligations (PRESS RELEASE) In a report that will serve as a guidepost for the new United Nations (U.N.) development agenda, the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on states to ensure women’s […]
LA Times Op-Ed: Anti-Choice TRAP Laws Exposed https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Featured-Story_LATimes_TRAP2.jpg Anti-choice state legislation has been alarmingly successful at limiting abortion access across the country over the last few years, writes CUNY Law Professor Caitlin Borgmann in an incisive opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times this week. TRAP (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws are crafted to […]
U.N. Committee Calls On Nepal to Eradicate Child Marriage and Ensure Women’s Access to Safe Abortion Services (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (U.N. CESCR) this week denounced the Nepal government for its failure to end child marriage and to ensure all women in the country have access to reproductive […]
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee Court’s decision in Young v. UPS will have a significant impact on millions of working women and their families (PRESS RELEASE) Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving a former UPS delivery driver who was forced to take unpaid leave […]
Spotlight on India Sterilization “Camps” https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/india_forced.jpg A recent Wall Street Journal article takes a look at some of the big-picture issues around the recent tragedy in Bilaspur, India, where 13 women died and dozens of others seriously fell ill while undergoing coerced sterilization at one of the country’s government-sponsored sterilization “camps.” Although investigators have now […]
