African Human Rights System
Leading on Normative Development at the UN Human Rights Council
The Center extensively engages at the Human Rights Council to amplify the voices and priorities of our national partners at the global level and to ensure that the strongest human rights standards, including those pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights, are reflected in its resolutions. Ensuring political will and meaningful commitments to gender […]
The Right to Life Under International Human Rights Law
The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors state compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by 173 countries, issued a General Comment to states on the interpretation of Article 6 of the Covenant, the right to life, providing guidance on how to implement its obligations under this Article. The Center led […]
Ecuador’s President Issues Public Apology for Teenager’s Death in Landmark Sexual Violence Case
President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador today held a public act of recognition of responsibility for the sexual violence suffered by teenager Paola Guzmán Albarracín that led her to suicide nearly two decades ago. The apology was in compliance with a ruling issued in the case of Paola Guzmán Albarracín v. Ecuador by the Inter-American Court […]
Center Appeals to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for Release of Unjustly Imprisoned Salvadoran Women
Women at Risk of COVID-19 After Inaction by Salvadoran Government The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on December 3 and urged it to recommend that El Salvador free 12 women unjustly imprisoned in the country. Arrested for incidents related to obstetric emergencies during their pregnancies, […]
Catalina Martínez Coral on the Center’s Recent Human Rights Victory in Latin America
As a global organization, the Center for Reproductive Rights advances reproductive rights as human rights around the world. In August, the Center secured a landmark victory in a case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that established standards to protect girls from sexual violence and harassment in schools throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, and held Ecuador responsible for […]
Impact of COVID-19 on Reproductive Health and Rights in Sindh
The Center for Reproductive Rights collaborated with the Collective for Social Science Research to conduct a fact-finding on the impact of COVID-19 on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls in Sindh province, which includes Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi. A lockdown was imposed across the province of Sindh on March […]
UN Member States Make Recommendations to U.S. to Protect Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Strong Recommendations Given at U.S.’s Peer Review at the UN Human Rights Council United Nations Member States from around the world yesterday strongly recommended to the United States that it act to protect sexual and reproductive rights and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health care and services. The recommendations came during the […]
Center Urges UN Members to Consider Reproductive Rights in Assessing U.S.’s Human Rights Record
U.S. Peer Review at the UN Human Rights Council Scheduled for November 9 In preparation for the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States’ human rights record before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Center for Reproductive Rights and a coalition of rights organizations have urged Member States to consider concerns […]
El Centro celebra la resolución histórica de la ONU para la protección de los derechos humanos de mujeres y niñas en crisis humanitarias
El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos reconoce la adopción, por consenso en Ginebra, de la resolución del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas (CDH) titulada “Promoción, protección y respeto del pleno disfrute de los derechos humanos por parte de mujeres y niñas en crisis humanitarias”. En la resolución se reconoce que las situaciones humanitarias […]