On November 30, the Center, with Brazilian partner Advocaci, filed Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil, the first maternal mortality case to be brought before the UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Alyne, a 28-year-old Afro-Brazilian woman, died of complications resulting from pregnancy after her local health center misdiagnosed her symptoms […]
UN Committee Establishes States’ Obligation to Address Maternal Mortality (Updated 3.18.21) In the first-ever maternal mortality case decided by an international human rights body, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee) condemned Brazil for failing to provide timely, nondiscriminatory, and appropriate maternal health services to Alyne Da Silva. The Committee recognized that States have a human rights obligation to […]
Center for Reproductive Rights and ADVOCACI file Petition with United Nations for Human Rights Violations Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Citizens’ Advocacy for Human Rights (ADVOCACI) filed a case in the United Nations against Brazil for failing to address the unacceptably high death rate of pregnant women in that country. The case, submitted […]
For decades, women seeking maternity services in health facilities across Kenya have suffered serious human rights violations — including verbal attacks, sexual assault, flagrant neglect and filthy conditions — often while giving birth, according to a new fact-finding report published by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Federation of Women Lawyers — Kenya (FIDA […]
Providing women with affordable, accessible, and safe health services is a key obligation of the government of Kenya. However, as a new report produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Federation of Women Lawyers—Kenya vividly illustrates, Kenya’s health care sector suffers from systemic and widespread problems that deny women high quality family planning […]
Nepal’s Supreme Court Orders Access to Legal Abortion Services (Updated 3.18.21) Nepal’s Supreme Court concluded that the government must guarantee access to safe and affordable abortion services. The court ordered Nepal to adopt a comprehensive abortion law establishing a national fund for abortion costs, ensuring stronger safeguards for women’s privacy, promoting access to safe services for all women, and widely disseminating information […]