Croatian Court Reaffirms Constitutionality of Women’s Access to Abortion
Croatian Court Reaffirms Constitutionality of Women’s Access to Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia reaffirmed the constitutionality of access to abortion. The Constitutional Court decision rejected claims made by [...]
Center Submission regarding Constitutionality of Croatia’s Act on Health Measures for the Realization of the Right to Freely Decide on the Childbirth
Abortion, Legal Protections, Legal Restrictions, HIV/AIDS, Discriminatory Policies,Europe, Croatia,At the United Nations, Reporting on Rights,DocumentsChina to End One-Child Policy
China to End One-Child Policy (PRESS RELEASE) This week the Chinese government announced plans to allow all married couples to have two children—ending the decades old one-child policy. This move away from the one-child policy is [...]
U.N. Committee Calls on Croatia to Expand Reproductive Health Services and End Discrimination Against Women
U.N. Committee Calls on Croatia to Expand Reproductive Health Services and End Discrimination Against Women (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) has called on the Croatian [...]
New York Times Letter to the Editor: Forced Abortion in China
New York Times Letter to the Editor: Forced Abortion in China By Nancy Northup, President and CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights Re 'Forced to Abort, Chinese Woman Under Pressure” (news article, June 27): The outrage [...]
IntLawGrrls: Rights-Based Approach to Sex-Selection
By Johanna Westeson, Regional Director for Europe, Center for Reproductive Rights A 28-year-old pregnant woman sat in a doctor’s office in Albania with tears streaming down her face. The doctor had just informed her that [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives East and Southeast Asia
,A joint venture between the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), and four NGO partners in East and Southeast Asia, Women of the World: East and Southeast Asia [...]
Shadow Letters Bring Reproductive Rights to Light
The Center celebrated the recent concluding observations on Ecuador, Croatia and Moldova from the U.N. Human Rights Committee, which reaffirm the obligation of these states to guarantee reproductive rights. The Committee's concluding observations responded directly [...]
Center Submission for the Human Rights Committee’s Review of Croatia (2009)
In 2009, the Center submitted a shadow letter to the Human Rights Committee on the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Croatia. The shadow letter discussed the state’s systematic failure to provide comprehensive sexual [...]
Human Rights Committee Reviews Croatia
In March and September of 2009, the Center for Reproductive Rights, together with the Center for Education, Counseling and Research (CESI), and Interights, submitted shadow letters on Croatia to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, [...]
Croatia is Condemned by European Social Rights Body for Homophobic School Text Books
(PRESS RELEASE) The European Committee of Social Rights, which monitors state compliance with the European Social Charter, has found that Croatia's limited curriculum covering sex education discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. The Committee [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
