Communication No. 4/2004Submitted by: Ms. A. S. (represented by the European Roma Rights Center and the Legal Defence Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities)Alleged victim: The authorState party: HungaryDate of communication: 12 February 2004 (initial submission) On 14 August 2006, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted the annexed text as the […]
UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMENSUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION RE:A.S. V. HUNGARYCOMMUNICATION NO: 4/2004This memorandum offers comments in the case of A.S. v. Hungary. It is submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights, an international non-governmental organization that uses the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental right that […]
Oklahoma The United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1-Complaint_0.pdf
Oklahoma Hill v. Kemp: Opinion of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Hill-Kemp-10CA-Opinion-030607.pdf
The A.S. v. Hungary complaint was filed under the Optional Protocol to CEDAW on behalf of a Hungarian woman of Roma origin who was coercively sterilized in a public hospital. The complaint was filed jointly by the Budapest-based Legal Defense Bureau for National and Ethnic Minorities (NEKI) and the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC), and […]
International human rights law protects the rights of women to have access to voluntary sterilization services free of coercion, discrimination, and violence. In April 2004, the Center prepared a legal memorandum on the illegality of coercive sterilization under international human rights law, and an analysis of possible remedial measures to address such abuses using comparative […]
, Filing date: 01/14/04 State: Oklahoma Plaintiff(s): Harold E. Hill, Margaret R. and William F. McCright, John J. McQueen, Rita J. Moskowitz, Barbara Santee, and Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Inc. Center Attorney(s): ,Janet Crepps Co-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: Molly S. Boast, Suzanne M. Grosso, and Cameron L. Schroeder of the firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP […]
The Center brought this case on behalf of ten women targeted by a “Search and Arrest” policy initiated in 1989 by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and local law enforcement officials. Under the policy, MUSC medical personnel secretly searched a targeted group of pregnant women for evidence of cocaine use so that police […]
In this action, CRR represents Dr. J. Christopher Carey as part of our ongoing efforts to protect the ability of physicians to obtain abortion training, and to perform abortion procedures without undue government interference. Filing date: , 08/18/2005 State: Arizona Plaintiff(s): , J. Christopher Carey, MD Center Attorney(s): , Janet Crepps, Suzanne Novak, Michelle Movahed […]
Slovakia must take urgent action to prevent Roma women from being sterilized without prior and informed consent. This was a key concluding observation from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, which reviewed Slovakia on July 2. The Committee called on the government of Slovakia to better monitor public and private […]