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CRR Provides Testimony Before Sen. Durbin Hearing on CEDAW

(PRESS RELEASE) Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), as chairman of the Senate Subcomittee on Human Rights and Law, is holding the first-ever hearing in the Judiciary Committee this afternoon on U.S. Ratification of the human rights [...]

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CEDAW: Written Statement Submitted to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law

Written Statement of the Center for Reproductive Rights Submitted to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law For November 18, 2010 Hearing on: "Women's Rights Are Human Rights: U.S. [...]

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Concluding observations on the combined eighth and ninth periodic reports of El Salvador

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With its Regression on Abortion Rights, the U.S. is a Global Outlier

The United States is one of only four countries that has rolled back abortion rights since 1994.

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U.S. Supreme Court Takes on Hobby Lobby’s Effort to Deny Women Copay-Free Birth Control Guaranteed by Affordable Care Act

U.S. Supreme Court Takes on Hobby Lobby’s Effort to Deny Women Copay-Free Birth Control Guaranteed by ACA After the nation’s highest court upheld historic health care law, for-profit company attempting to refuse women access to [...]

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Center Wins 2010 Gruber Women’s Rights Prize

2010 Gruber Women's Rights Prize Recipients Hailed for Courageous Efforts in Advancing Women's Sexual and Reproductive Rights The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation today announced that it will award the 2010 Women's Rights Prize to [...]

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WHO Report: Safe Abortion is Essential to Protecting Women’s Human Rights

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 [...]

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2010 State Legislative Wrap Up

In the United States, state legislatures wield enormous power to control women’s access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare services. Each year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women’s access to abortion, including [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

The Global Pattern of U.S. Initiatives Curtailing Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Perspective on the Increasingly Anti-Choice Mosaic

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law volume 6, number 4 INTRODUCTION The impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade1 has been immeasurable, both in the United States and around the world. [...]

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Hands Off Our Birth Control

The Center and a coalition of reproductive health advocates delivered over half a million public comments opposing the Trump administration’s new birth control rules. On December 5, 2017, the Center for Reproductive Rights, along with [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.