This summary report is a collaborative submission by the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center), the Health Development Initiative (HDI), and the Great Lakes Initiative for Human Rights and Development (GLIHD) to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). It provides key highlights of the supplementary information on Rwanda’s compliance with its […]
“The right to education… is an essential right for children, which has a long-lasting effect on the well-being of children. Education determines the future of children… The obligation of States to respect the right to education entails that States should not interfere with the right to education of girls, rather they should provide enabling policies, […]
Court issues sweeping decision in Center’s case of pregnant woman physically and verbally abused by hospital staff and left to deliver on a concrete floor.
Affirming the Right to Respectful Maternal Health Care in Kenya
The Center is defending a 2018 judgment recognizing that the neglect and abuse of women seeking maternity health services are rights violations under the Kenyan Constitution and international law.
More about plaintiff Josephine Majani.
The landmark 2018 ruling in Josephine Oundo Ongwen v. Attorney General and 4 Others (Bungoma High Court Petition No. 5 of 2014)—which recognized the right to quality maternal health care in Kenya—and the appeal of the ruling by Bungoma County.