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Peruvian Government Gives Monetary Reparations As Part of Historic United Nations Abortion Case
Peruvian Government Gives Monetary Reparations As Part of Historic United Nations Abortion Case (PRESS RELEASE) The Peruvian government has agreed to pay reparations as part of the first United Nations (U.N.) ruling on human rights [...]
Dominican Republic Constitutional Court Repeals Abortion Law
Dominican Republic Constitutional Court Repeals Abortion Law (PRESS RELEASE) Despite progress made by the Dominican Republic in 2014 to amend the penal code to decriminalize abortion in limited circumstances, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Supreme [...]
New Human Rights Case Filed On Behalf of Salvadoran Women Who Miscarried and Are Wrongfully Imprisoned
New Human Rights Case Filed On Behalf of Salvadoran Women Who Miscarried and Are Wrongfully Imprisoned (PRESS RELEASE) Countless Salvadoran women with pregnancy complications continue to be arrested on suspicion of an abortion and later [...]
Aborto y Derechos Reproductivos en América Latina: Implicaciones para la Democracia
Les compartimos la nueva publicación del Centro de Derechos Reproductivos producido en conjunto con el Inter-American Dialogue con quienes organizamos el Simposio sobre Derechos Reproductivos en América Latina en la ciudad de Washington, DC el [...]
Derecho a la salud de las mujeres embarazadas
Ana y Aurora son dos mujeres que quedaron embarazadas, a cuyos fetos se les diagnosticaron malformaciones severas incompatibles con la vida extrauterina. Ambas fueron obligadas a mantener un embarazo inviable y sufrir las numerosas secuelas [...]
Government of Ecuador Absent at Inter-American Commission Hearing on Sexual Violence in Schools
Government of Ecuador Absent at Inter-American Commission Hearing on Sexual Violence in Schools (PRESS RELEASE) The Ecuadorian government remains silent on endemic sexual violence in schools, failing to attend a hearing this week in Washington [...]
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Holds Hearing On Wrongful Imprisonment of Salvadoran Women Who Miscarry
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Holds Hearing On Wrongful Imprisonment of Salvadoran Women Who Miscarry (PRESS RELEASE) Reproductive rights advocates testified today in Washington, D.C. about the human rights violations women in El Salvador suffer [...]
55 Members of Congress Call on Secretary of State John Kerry to Review Cases of Salvadoran Women Wrongfully Imprisoned for Pregnancy Complications
55 Members of Congress Call on John Kerry to Review Cases of Salvadoran Women Wrongfully Imprisoned (PRESS RELEASE) Today Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Norma J. Torres delivered a letter from 55 Member of Congress [...]
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Letter to Kerry on Las 17 in El Salvador
Letter to Kerry on Las 17 in El Salvador
Government of Ecuador Fails to Protect the Rights of People Living With HIV
Government of Ecuador Fails to Protect the Rights of People Living With HIV (PRESS RELEASE) The Ecuadoran government violated the human rights of a young girl living with HIV according to a ruling by the [...]
Chile’s Health Commission Approves Abortion Bill
Chile’s Health Commission Approves Abortion Bill (PRESS RELEASE) Rape survivors will be able to access safe abortion services within 14 weeks of pregnancy according to the latest version of Chile’s abortion bill advanced by the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.