Noting that current restrictions on foreign aid for abortion services go beyond even those imposed by the highly restrictive Helms Amendment—cutting off access to critical and potentially life-saving services for millions of women in the developing world—the Center for Reproductive Rights and Ipas join with the 12 members of Congress who today issued a letter […]
In July 2011, the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) urged the governments of Nepal, Costa Rica, and Zambia to improve their record on reproductive rights. The Center for Reproductive Rights, along with our partners, played an important role by submitting shadow letters that informed the CEDAW Committee’s recommendations. Nepal: Despite […]
On June 7, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Justice for All, and the Women’s Reproductive Rights Program of the Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development submitted a shadow letter to the 49th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls in Nepal. […]
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That’s the first sentence of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations 63 years ago on December 10. And yet here we are, all these decades later, still fighting tooth and nail to ensure that those […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/tcidt-feat-img.jpeg A woman living with HIV in Chile is forcibly sterilized while unconscious and undergoing a cesarean delivery. A Kenyan woman, along with her newborn child, is detained for weeks by hospital staff in miserable conditions. Her crime is poverty, she has no money to pay her medical bill. In Peru, a young girl lives […]
Thirty years ago, women’s rights activists first marked November 25 as the day on which the world would demand an end to all physical and sexual abuse targeted at women. It took another 18 years before the United Nations officially recognized that date as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Progress […]
“While many countries are relaxing their abortion laws, women outside large cities may have trouble getting the procedure, a survey released Thursday said. The Center for Reproductive Rights said that since 1994, 26 countries have liberalized abortion laws. They are Albania, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Chad, Colombia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guinea, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, […]
The Centre for Health and Resource Management (CHARM) v. State of Bihar is a public interest case that seeks to hold the Government of India accountable for the poor conditions in public health facilities in the state of Bihar. This case was filed after Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) undertook a fact-finding mission in Munger, […]
reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/map_homepage.jpeg For nearly 20 years, the Center for Reproductive Rights has stood up for women around the globe, winning landmark victories that secure vital protections of women’s inalienable human rights to health, dignity, equality, and full reproductive autonomy. Launch our new interactive map of the world’s abortion laws >, Over that time, we’ve seen—and played […]
