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Dominican Republic Decriminalizes Abortion in Limited Circumstances
Dominican Republic Decriminalizes Abortion in Limited Circumstances (PRESS RELEASE) President Danilo Medina of the Dominican Republic signed the country’s amended Penal Code on Friday that will finally allow women access to safe abortion services in [...]
Dominican Republic Set to Allow Abortion in Limited Circumstances
Dominican Republic Set to Allow Abortion in Limited Circumstances (PRESS RELEASE) The Dominican Republic Chamber of Deputies has agreed to amend the country’s Penal Code to allow abortion in cases of rape or incest, or when [...]
U.N. Committee Denounces Romania for Denying Women Reproductive Health Care
U.N. Committee Denounces Romania for Denying Women Reproductive Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (U.N. CESCR) has called on the Romanian government to revise its laws and policies [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Reaffirms Reproductive Rights Are Central to Development
United Nations Secretary-General Reaffirms Reproductive Rights Are Central to Development U.N. Releases Post-2015 Development Agenda Report Calling on Governments to Fulfill Human Rights Obligations (PRESS RELEASE) In a report that will serve as a guidepost [...]
U.N. Committee Calls On Nepal to Eradicate Child Marriage and Ensure Women’s Access to Safe Abortion Services
U.N. Committee Calls On Nepal to Eradicate Child Marriage and Ensure Women’s Access to Safe Abortion Services (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (U.N. CESCR) this week denounced the Nepal [...]
Dominican Republic Reinforces Harmful Abortion Ban With New Penal Code
Dominican Republic Reinforces Harmful Abortion Ban With New Penal Code (PRESS RELEASE) Despite more than 90,000 unsafe abortions occurring in the Dominican Republic each year and decades of international human rights law establishing a woman’s [...]
United Nations Committee Examines U.S. Record On Torture
United Nations Committee Examines U.S. Record On Torture Center for Reproductive Rights Raises Violations of Reproductive Rights for Immigrant Women and Women of Color (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee against Torture meets in Geneva [...]
Shadow Letter to CAT on the United States
The Center for Reproductive Rights, Women Enabled International, and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health prepared this letter to assist the Committee against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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12 Countries Call on El Salvador to Decriminalize Abortion
12 Countries Call on El Salvador to Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Twelve countries denounced the criminalization of abortion in El Salvador this week as part of the Universal Periodic Review of the country currently being [...]
Panorama Mundial del Derecho al Aborto
Esta hoja informativa es una guía ,esencial del Mapa de Leyes sobre Aborto en el Mundo y ofrece un panorama general de la situación jurídica actual y de las tendencias legislativas globales del aborto, así [...]
Preguntas y Respuestas: Cómo leer el mapa de las leyes sobre aborto en el mundo
Esta hoja informativa es una herramienta útil para comprender el Mapa de Leyes sobre Aborto en el Mundo. En ella, se describen las diferentes ,legislaciones ,del aborto en diferentes países ,y se establecen categorías ,que [...]
Organization of American States Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women; Calls on Governments to Decriminalize Abortion
OAS Links Abortion Restrictions to Violence Against Women, Calls Governments to Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) For the first time ever a committee within the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered to be the United Nations for the [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Brings Forced Sterilization Case of HIV Positive Woman to Human Rights Commission
Center for Reproductive Rights Brings Forced Sterilization Case of HIV Positive Woman to Human Rights Commission Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hear Case on the Forced Sterilization of Chilean Woman Living with HIV (PRESS [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.