Hailed by the Mexican Supreme Court president Arturo Zaldívar as "a watershed in the history of the rights of all women, especially the most vulnerable,” the Court issued a ruling advancing abortion decriminalization ithroughout the country.

Uruguay Raises the Bar for Latin America This week, Uruguay took an extremely important step when its President signed into law a bill allowing abortion services during the first trimester of pregnancy, reversing its highly [...]

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 [...]

The United States is one of only four countries that has rolled back abortion rights since 1994.

UN Human Rights Committee Establishes Right to Abortion as a Human Right  (Updated 3.18.21) The Center for Reproductive Rights persuaded the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) to recognize that women have a human right to access safe and legal abortion. In a ruling that [...]

Can you imagine living in a country where women are thrown in jail for using emergency contraception—even if they were raped? This heinous law is currently pending before the Honduran Congress with a vote scheduled [...]

The Center and its partner in El Salvador are presenting arguments in the Manuela v. El Salvador case.

Watch the replay of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing with testimony by the Center and its partners on rights violations resulting from the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

(Updated 12.02.21) In a landmark ruling, on November 30, 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights has for the first time established standards throughout the region to help protect women seeking reproductive health care, including [...]

Ruling in case brought by the Center and partners holds El Salvador responsible for the death of Manuela, a woman imprisoned after an obstetric emergency.