IACHR Examines Impact of Agrochemicals on Reproductive Health in Latin America
The Center provides testimony on the dangers of glyphosate and other agrochemicals, an issue it has worked on for several years.
The Center provides testimony on the dangers of glyphosate and other agrochemicals, an issue it has worked on for several years.
The goal of this report 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. 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 […]
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, […]
10 Years of Legal Abortion in Colombia (PRESS RELEASE) Today marks 10 years since the Colombian Constitutional Court deemed the country’s blanket ban on abortion unconstitutional and mandated that abortion be legally accessible in some circumstances—a historic move for the court which recognized women’s sexual and reproductive rights as human rights. In 2006, the Colombian […]
Every day, human rights defenders draw on deep wells of passion and commitment as they stand up for people who have no voice, no power. Too often, the vocation requires far more: unflagging courage in the face of an opposition willing to take aggressive hostility to the heights of terrorism and violence. Mónica Roa, a […]
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights celebrated the Colombian Senate’s defeat of a recent proposal to amend the country’s constitution and ban abortion under all circumstances. On October 12, the constitutional commission of the Senate rejected “Project No. 006 de 2011,” a proposed amendment which would have established the right to life from […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/hp_bogota.jpg (PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced the opening of its new regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogotá, Colombia. The Center has worked in the region for fifteen years, advancing women’s access to reproductive health services, through human rights litigation and the documentation of reproductive rights violations. “We’ve […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Colombia-USAID.JPG USAID funds must not be used to roll back historic wins for women’s reproductive health and rights in Colombia — this is the message that the Center recently delivered to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a forceful letter. Our urgent appeal comes as Colombia’s Attorney General continues to assault women’s access to […]