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Shadow letter to CEDAW on the state of reproductive and sexual health and rights in Costa Rica
On May 25, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Asociación Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir, the Centro de Investigación y Promoción para América Central de Derechos Humanos, Law Students for Reproductive Justice of [...]
Center’s shadow letter to the ESCR Committee on Ecuador
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter for the review of Ecuador to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) during its 47th Session in December 2011. The letter discusses the [...]
Carta sombra: Ecuador_CESCR_2011_Inglés
El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos presentó un reporte alternativo al Comité para los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (CDESC) durante el 47 período de sesiones en diciembre de 2011. El documento reporta acerca del incumplimiento [...]
Los derechos reproductivos son derechos humanos
Los fundamentos jurídicos de los derechos reproductivos de las mujeres se basan en una variedad de derechos humanos reconocidos por el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos. Esta publicación delinea diez de los derechos humanos [...]
Decision: L.C. v. Peru
In a groundbreaking decision issued in L.C. v. Peru—a case brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partner organization in Peru PROMSEX—the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) ruled [...]
Center’s Shadow Letter to the Human Rights Committee on The Republic of Moldova
In October 2011 the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Moldovan Institute for Human Rights (IDOM) submitted a letter to the Country Report Task Forces of the Human Rights Committee. The objective was to encourage [...]
Organizations Respond to U.N. Special Rapporteur’s Report
Human rights, women’s rights and health organizations released a signed letter this week in support of the report by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, which was presented on October [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Haciendo de los derechos una realidad: Resumen
El Centro ha terminado la versión en español de su serie de publicaciones, Haciendo de los Derechos una Realidad. Publicado por la primera vez en inglés en 2002, Haciendo de los Derechos una Realidad examina [...]
Amicus Brief: Gauer and Others v. France
In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in [...]
The Center’s Comments to the Polish Parliament on a Proposal to Ban Abortion
The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning submitted these comments to members of the Polish Parliament with respect to the bill “On the Protection of Human Life from [...]
Decision: Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil
In the first maternal death case to be decided by an international human rights body, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) establishes that governments have a human rights obligation [...]
Dignidad Negada: Violaciones de los Derechos de las Mujeres VIH-Positivas en Establecimientos de Salud Chilenos
Las mujeres representan aproximadamente el 50% de los 33,4 millones de personas que viven con VIH/SIDA en todo el mundo. Aunque el porcentaje total de mujeres que viven con VIH/SIDA se ha estabilizado en los [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
