African Committee Recommends Tanzania Reform Policies That Barred Pregnant Girls from School
Ruling by ACERWC in case brought by the Center and its partner marks a victory for adolescent girls in Tanzania and beyond.
Ruling by ACERWC in case brought by the Center and its partner marks a victory for adolescent girls in Tanzania and beyond.
Published collaboratively by Center for Reproductive Rights and South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative (SARJAI), this paper outlines the existing public health standards and the current human rights standards on abortion including medical and self-managed abortions.
Newsletter of the April 2020 updates regarding COVID-19’s effects on SRH services and gender issues throughout the Asia-Pacific region, more specifically: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Cambodia, and the Philippines. The Nepal RHRWG, PAPAC, and CRR-SARJAI network statements are linked in this document as well.
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has agreed to hear a maternal mortality complaint against Nigeria in a case brought by the Dullah Omar Institute of the University of the Western Cape, the Africa Alliance, the Women Advocate Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The case, which was […]
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reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/righttolife.png The right to life is a fundamental human right, central to the enjoyment of all other human rights. International human rights law recognizes this basic right begins at birth, and international and regional human rights bodies, as well as courts worldwide, have clearly established that any prenatal protections must be consistent with women’s human […]
Combatting Child Marriage reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_thumb.jpg The numbers are disturbing. According to a recent UNICEF study, one in nine girls in the developing world will marry before age 15, one in three will marry before 18. Some are as young as eight. Child marriage remains an all-too-common reality throughout large swaths of the world—particularly South Asia. And […]
UN Takes Major Action to End Child Marriage reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CRR_FS_childmarriage_10-3-13.jpg For the first time in history, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution dedicated to ending the blight of child marriage. Over 100 countries co-sponsored the resolution that was adopted on September 27, and remaining member states had until Friday, October 11, to sign […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Thumb.png A new report calls on the governments in South Asia to stop the human rights crisis that is child marriage. This publication was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Web.pdf reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_FactSheet_Web.pdf reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_BriefingPaper_Web.singlepage.pdf reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ChildMarriage_FactSheet_Web.singlepage.pdf