https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hp_aidsday.jpg 12.1.10 – On this World AIDS Day, the Center is urging governments to protect the sexual and reproductive rights of women living with HIV. Significant progress has been made in the last decade in response to the HIV pandemic and its recognition as a human rights issue. However, women living with HIV/AIDS still face […]
By Cynthia Soohoo, Originally published in RH Reality Check 12.8.10 – After the midterm elections, Republican leaders are claiming a mandate to undo healthcare reform. Last Friday, there was an opportunity to look at healthcare in the U.S. through a different lens—one less focused on the evils of “Obamacare” and more focused on whether the […]
“My name is Aram Schvey, and I serve as Policy Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights. The Center is a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international human rights law to promote women’s equality by establishing and protecting their access to reproductive healthcare and their control over reproductive health decisions as fundamental […]
Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, testified before the New York City Council on November 16, 2010 on the recently introduced bill that will regulate the deceptive practices of pregnancy counseling centers in the city. The legislation, Intro 371, requires limited service pregnancy centers to post signs disclosing at the facility and […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights highlighted the important role of the courts in protecting reproductive rights in light of the 2010 midterm election results. The House of Representatives likely gained at least forty-nine anti-choice members with several races still being decided. The Senate retained a slim but diminished pro-choice majority with three […]
Among Other Abuses, CRR and Vivo Positivo’s Report Documents Forced Sterilization, Verbal Abuse, Denials of Service (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Chilean-based HIV/AIDS service organization Vivo Positivo released new human rights research finding that abuse against HIV-positive women in Chile by medical professionals is widespread, including sterilizing them without their knowledge […]
Entre otros abusos, el informe del Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y de Vivo Positivo documenta la esterilización forzada, los abusos verbales y la denegación de servicios Nueva York – El día de hoy, el Centro de Derechos Reproductivos y la organización chilena para la prestación de servicios a las personas que viven con VIH/SIDA, Vivo […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/chilereport_small.jpg Women account for roughly 50% of the 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Although the total percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS has stabilized in the last few years, individual countries, including Chile, continue to see a rise in women’s rates of infection. Social and cultural factors continue to expose Chilean women to […]
Filing date: 07/06/2010 State: Mississippi, USA Plaintiff(s): Deborah Hughes &, Cristen Hemmins Center Attorney(s): Suzanne Novak Co-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: Robert McDuff, Cliff Johnson, Eve Gartner (PPFA), Alexa Kolbi-Molinas (ACLU), Bear Atwood (ACLU of MS) Description: This suit is to prevent proposed ballot Measure 26, which would define a “person” in the Mississippi Bill of Rights to […]
In May, the Center submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on the Rights of the Child highlighting the situation of girls’ and adolescents’ sexual and reproductive rights in Nigeria. The Committee issued concluding observations to Nigeria that directly address many of the issues that the Center raised in the shadow letter. These issues include […]