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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Declares Costa Rica’s Ban on In-Vitro Fertilization a Human Rights Violation
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Declares Costa Rica’s Ban on IVF a Human Rights Violation (PRESS RELEASE) Costa Rica’s longstanding ban on in-vitro fertilization—which has barred countless individuals from building their families for almost 12 [...]
CAT Committee Includes Center’s Input in List of Issues for Upcoming Philippines Review
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Committee against Torture (CAT Committee) recommending questions to be incorporated in the List of Issues being prepared for the upcoming review of the Philippines. [...]
Concluding Observations from UN Reveal Grave Reproductive Rights Concerns in Indonesia
In July, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) held its review of Indonesia. The Concluding Observations from the session have just been released, highlighting recommendations made by the Center in [...]
Center’s issues included in List of Issues for reviews of El Salvador and Chile by the CAT Committee
As part of its 2013 reviews of Chile and El Salvador, the Committee against Torture (CAT Committee) solicited input from civil society organizations to determine the issues that would be covered in the country revisions. [...]
Zambia: A Wrong Turn on the Right to Life
States have consistently chosen to use language in their constitutions that affirms the right to life without trying to define when life begins, reinforcing the approach taken by all major international human rights instruments. However, [...]
The Legal and Policy Framework on Abortion in Tanzania
Abortion is legal in mainland Tanzania when done to preserve the life or mental or physical health of the pregnant women, as well as in cases of sexual violence. However, unclear and often confusing abortion [...]
UN Urges the Slovak Government to Reform Reproductive Health
A recent review by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights found that Slovakia continues to fall short on certain key elements of reproductive health care. The Center for Reproductive Rights and [...]
Understanding the Legal and Policy Framework on Abortion in Uganda
Abortion is legal in Uganda when done to preserve the life or mental or physical health of the pregnant woman, understood to include cases of sexual violence. However, unclear and often confusing abortion laws and [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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Civil Society Declaration for Global Fammily Planning Summit
International human rights groups are urging world leaders attending next month’s global Family Planning Summit to ensure that any effort to increase the use of contraceptives be a part of a broader strategy to improve [...]
Best Practices for Protecting Women’s Reproductive Health: Submission to U.N. Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted information to the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG), a four-year panel that is part of the U.N. Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, on best practices [...]
Center Issues Oral Statement before U.N. on Adolescents’ Reproductive Rights
This week, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development holds its 45th session. The commission monitors and evaluates the implementation of the Programme of Action, a global agreement adopted by 179 governments nearly 20 [...]
UN Calls on Uganda to Fulfill Human Rights Obligations
One year ago, the Center for Reproductive Rights and our partner, the Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA - Uganda), submitted a joint letter to the Human Rights Council (the Council), which was about to [...]
Causas Pendientes: Expediente de A.N.
A.N., una joven costarricense que a los 26 añ,os quedó, embarazada de un feto al que se le diagnosticó, una malformació,n severa incompatible con la vida extrauterina que le representaba una amenaza a su vida [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
