Maternal Health
Voces Ignoradas: Experiencias de Mujeres con el Virus del Zika – La Respuesta Global
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Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika in Brazil
The goal of this report is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impact that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in Brazil. 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, […]
Our Top Five
In the face of ongoing, aggressive attacks on reproductive freedom in 2014, we continued to give our all to protect women’s fundamental rights—with big results. Keep up the momentum in 2015. Donate today. Here are a few highlights: 1. Saving Mississippi’s lone clinic It’s no secret that Mississippi politicians are on an obsessive mission to […]
Alyne v. Brazil: Case of Alyne da Silva Pimentel Teixeira (“Alyne”) v. Brazil
Alyne, una Afro-Brasilera de 28 años murió por complicaciones de un embarazo después de que un centro de salud privado y luego un centro de salud público le negaran atención de calidad de salud materna. Las tasas de mortalidad materna en Brasil son desproporcionadamente altas para un país de su situación económica. Adicionalmente, las posibilidades […]
Brazilian Lawmakers Hear Testimony Regarding Discrimination Against Women Seeking Maternal Health Care
Brazilian Lawmakers Hear Testimony Regarding Discrimination Against Women Seeking Maternal Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) Two years after the United Nations declared Brazil responsible for the death of an Afro-Brazilian woman —calling on the State to provide access to quality maternal health care without discrimination—pregnant women are still dying, and Brazil has not implemented the decision by […]
Time for Action
Brazil: Time for Action In August 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) struck a blow for women worldwide when it recognized—in the first preventable maternal death case to go before an international human rights body—that governments have an inescapable obligation to guarantee maternal health services to every woman […]
UN Committee Holds Brazil Accountable
Last year, the Center for Reproductive Rights won a groundbreaking victory in our eight-year battle on behalf of Alyne da Silva Pimentel, an impoverished Afro-brazilian woman who died when doctors willfully failed to provide her with the maternal healthcare to which she was legally entitled. In February 2012, the Center presented a shadow letter on […]
RH Reality Check: International Human Rights Court Says Governments Must Ensure Timely Access to Maternal Health Services
By Jodi Jacobson “In 2002, Alyne da Silva Pimentel, a 28-year-old Afro-Brazilian woman, died after being denied basic medical care to address complications in her pregnancy. Her death might be like any one of the other hundreds of thousands of women who die of complications of pregnancy or unsafe abortion each year worldwide, but for […]