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Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika in Colombia
The goal of this report is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impacts that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in Colombia. Secondly, this report analyzes the response to the Zika epidemic through both a public health and human rights lens, ultimately finding that there was a […]
Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika – The Global Response
The goal of this report series is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impacts that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in Colombia, Brazil, and El Salvador. Secondly, these reports analyze the global response to the Zika epidemic through both a public health and human rights lens, […]
Colombia: The Right to True and Accurate Information
Colombia: The Right to True and Accurate Information A decision is expected at any time on a Colombian Constitutional Court case revolving around women’s fundamental right to information on sexual and reproductive health care. Back in May the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in the case filed by Women’s Link Worldwide (WLW), […]
Human Rights Defender Fends Off Attack
Every day, human rights defenders draw on deep wells of passion and commitment as they stand up for people who have no voice, no power. Too often, the vocation requires far more: unflagging courage in the face of an opposition willing to take aggressive hostility to the heights of terrorism and violence. Mónica Roa, a […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Opens New Regional Office in Colombia
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hp_bogota.jpg (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced the opening of its new regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogotá, Colombia. The Center has worked in the region for fifteen years, advancing women’s access to reproductive health services, through human rights litigation and the documentation of reproductive rights violations. “We’ve […]
Abortion in Colombia: Hard-Won Gains at Risk
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Colombia-USAID.JPG USAID funds must not be used to roll back historic wins for women’s reproductive health and rights in Colombia — this is the message that the Center recently delivered to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a forceful letter. Our urgent appeal comes as Colombia’s Attorney General continues to assault women’s access to […]