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 [...]
A Global View of Abortion Rights
A critical accompaniment to the World's Abortion Laws map, this fact sheet provides a snapshot of the current status of abortion in countries across the globe, trends in global abortion laws and a summary of [...]
Questions & Answers: Understanding the World’s Abortion Laws Map
This fact sheet provides readers with critical information for understanding the World Abortion Laws map, including information on the legal sources of abortion laws, as well as in-depth descriptions of each category on the abortion [...]
Abortion Worldwide: 20 Years of Reform
In 1994, 179 countries came together to adopt the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the first international consensus document in which states recognized that reproductive rights are human [...]
From Risk to Rights: Realizing States’ Obligations to Prevent and Address Maternal Mortality
During the past several decades, sexual and reproductive rights advocates have transformed the global community’s understanding of maternal mortality and morbidity, framing it as a clear violation of women’s fundamental human rights. This change has [...]
Shadow Letter to the CEDAW Committee on Sierra Leone
The Center and L.A.W.Y.E.R.S. submitted this shadow letter to the CEDAW Committee during its 57th session in connection with its review of Sierra Leone. This letter highlights Sierra Leone’s obligation to guarantee all women reproductive [...]
Reproductive Injustice: Racial and Gender Discrimination in U.S. Health Care
When it ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the United States committed to ensure the right to health care free from all forms of racial discrimination to [...]
The Human Rights Committee Urges Malawi to Safeguard Sexual and Reproductive Rights
In July 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (the Committee), which monitors states’ implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, released its concluding observations on Malawi, urging the government to take [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Whose Right to Life? Women’s Rights and Prenatal Protections under Human Rights and Comparative Law
The right to life is a fundamental human right, central to the enjoyment of all other human rights. International human rights law recognizes this basic right begins at birth, and international and regional human rights [...]
Reproductive Rights, Substantive Equality and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A briefing by the Center for Reproductive Rights
The Convention on the Rights of the Child strongly protects children’s right to access sexual and reproductive health services and their rights to substantive equality and nondiscrimination. This fact sheet examines the mutually reinforcing relationship [...]
Reproductive Rights and Torture or Ill-Treatment: A briefing by the Center for Reproductive Rights
For over a decade, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT Committee) has recognized some reproductive rights violations as forms of torture or ill-treatment and called on states to change laws, policies, and practices that restrict access [...]
Substantive Equality and Reproductive Rights: A Briefing Paper on Aligning Development Goals with Human Rights Obligations
International human rights norms have recognized that reproductive rights are women’s rights, clarifying that violations of reproductive rights are primarily manifestations of discrimination, poverty, and violence. Where women’s rights to equality and non-discrimination are not [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
