China to End One-Child Policy (PRESS RELEASE) This week the Chinese government announced plans to allow all married couples to have two children—ending the decades old one-child policy. This move away from the one-child policy is part of China’s five-year development plan starting in 2016 that aims to expand social security provisions to more citizens, improve […]
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 […]
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 […]
In July, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) held its review of Indonesia. The Concluding Observations from the session have just been released, highlighting recommendations made by the Center in a shadow letter on maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, early marriage, marital rape, abortion, and contraceptives. The letter also includes […]
In India, 63,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes every year-more than anywhere else in the world. The causes of maternal mortality are well-known and largely preventable, with malnutrition being a main contributing factor. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a legal memo in support of the petitioners in People’s Union of Civil Liberties v. Union […]
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/shah-payal.jpg Since 1992, the Center’s innovative legal work has fundamentally transformed the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and has already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries. CRR in the Field is a personal look at the various ways Center staff interacts with plaintiffs, policy makers, governing bodies, and supporters at […]
On June 4, 2010, during the 14th session of the Human Rights Council, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover, presented reports on Poland and India. The report called on both countries to improve the situation for sexual and reproductive health and rights. The Center proactively participated in the preparation […]
What is FGM? Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the collective name given to a number of cultural practices that involve the partial or total cutting of female genitals. FGM can be performed as early as infancy and as late as age thirty. However, most commonly, girls experience FGM between four and twelve years of age. […]
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 […]