Ireland’s Abortion Law: Lives At Risk reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_FS_ireland_3.jpg Last month, Savita Halapannavar arrived at Galway Hospital 17 weeks into her pregnancy and suffering from severe back pains. Doctors informed her that she was having a miscarriage, and then, over a three-day period, denied her repeated requests to terminate her pregnancy as her condition worsened. The doctors told her […]
Strasbourg Observers: P and S v. Poland – Adolescence, vulnerability, and reproductive autonomy By Johanna Westeson, Regional Director for Europe, Center for Reproductive Rights This week, the European Court of Human Rights issued its decision in P and S v. Poland, a case of a Polish teenager who became pregnant as a result of rape […]
Polish Parliament Deliberates Groundbreaking Sexual and Reproductive Health Bill (PRESS RELEASE) Members of Parliament in Poland – a country out of the step with the overwhelming majority of European countries with progressive sexual and reproductive health rights policies – are reviewing a draft bill this week that proposes trailblazing steps to guarantee women access to […]
Al Jazeera: Let them have contraception By: Manuela Picq “The London Summit on Family Planning is happening on July 11. It is an initiative from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK government to build momentum from governments, private sectors and the scientific community around the world to strengthen women’s access to contraception. […]
WHO Report: Safe Abortion is Essential to Protecting Women’s Human Rights States should eliminate barriers to abortion services, provide accurate information on reproductive health care (PRESS RELEASE) Providing women across the globe with access to safe and legal abortion services is essential to realizing and protecting their fundamental human rights, according to the updated safe […]
International human rights groups are urging world leaders attending next month’s global Family Planning Summit to ensure that any effort to increase the use of contraceptives be a part of a broader strategy to improve comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care and uphold sexual and reproductive rights for all women. While contraceptive information and […]
Global Advocates: Family Planning Summit Must Put Women’s Human Rights First Five international organizations urge world leaders to prioritize women’s human rights and comprehensive health care for all women at July summit (PRESS RELEASE) International human rights groups are urging world leaders attending next month’s global Family Planning Summit to ensure that any effort to […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/nancy-feat-header-20th-2.jpg CRR Celebrates 20 Years Twenty years ago on June 15, 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights opened its doors. A small team of lawyers had a vision to start an organization that coalesced around the idea that reproductive rights are fundamental and should be recognized as such from the moment a person is born […]
Europe must fight Turkish abortion restrictions By Lilian Sepulveda, Director of the Global Legal Program, Center for Reproductive Rights reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/HP_turkish_PM.jpg Evidence show that abortion restrictions lead not to fewer abortions, but to increases in unsafe and illegal abortion procedures, warns campaign group Women living in Turkey could be facing a dangerous future, thanks to the […]
Global human rights advocates call on Romanian government to reject extreme proposal (PRESS RELEASE) Nearly 40 international and European human rights organizations have joined together to urge Romanian officials to reject a proposed law that would create significant barriers for women seeking an abortion—including forcing women to endure biased counseling at “pregnancy crisis counseling offices” […]
