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Center for Reproductive Rights: Year in Review 2020
Despite the year's unprecedented challenges, the Center for Reproductive Rights continued to make progress to protect and advance reproductive rights across the globe. Thanks to all of our supporters who helped make these achievements possible! Read [...]
Center’s 2020 Legislative Wrap-Up Outlines Abortion Measures Passed in U.S. States
The Center for Reproductive Rights has published its 2020 Legislative Wrap-up, providing a report on state abortion laws enacted during the year. As states were forced to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, economic upheaval, and a [...]
Federal Court Blocks Four Arkansas Anti-Abortion Laws Hours After They Took Effect
In response to litigation from the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas issued an order blocking four anti-abortion laws in Arkansas hours after they [...]
Arkansas Health Care Providers File Emergency Request to Block Anti-Abortion Laws
The ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed for emergency relief to block four anti-abortion laws from taking effect as early as tomorrow in Arkansas. The action comes after the Eighth Circuit Court of [...]
Center’s Julie Rikelman Named a Crain’s New York “Notable Woman in Law”
Julie Rikelman, Senior Director of Litigation at the Center for Reproductive Rights, has been named by Crain’s New York as one of its Notable Women in Law for 2021. The list, published December 21, 2020, honors [...]
Global Year in Review: The Center’s Biggest Achievements of 2020
Despite the unprecedented challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its global partners made significant progress in the fight for reproductive rights around the world this year. Working both inside and outside the courts in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the Center successfully blocked harmful [...]
Center Spotlight: Jennifer Jacoby Talks U.S. Maternal Health
Jennifer Jacoby is well-versed in racial bias in the U.S. maternal health care system and the unconscionably poor health outcomes that result from that bias. Guiding her each day, she says, are some stark and [...]
Federal Appeals Court Denies Rehearing in Case Challenging Arkansas Abortion Restrictions
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals denied today the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights’ request for en banc rehearing of an August 2020 decision that paved the way for Arkansas abortion restrictions to [...]
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Ecuador’s President Issues Public Apology for Human Rights Violations of 16-Year-Old Girl on Behalf of the State
Today, President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador, on behalf of the State of Ecuador, held a public act of recognition of responsibility for the sexual violence suffered by teenager Paola Guzmán Albarracín that led her to suicide nearly two decades ago. [...]
Ecuador Ofreció Disculpas Públicas por la Violencia que Vivió Paola Guzmán Albarracín
Este 9 de diciembre, Petita Albarracín ha logrado que el Estado ecuatoriano reconozca su responsabilidad y le pida disculpas públicas por no haber protegido a su hija Paola Guzmán Albarracín de la violencia sexual que [...]
Ecuador’s President Issues Public Apology for Teenager’s Death in Landmark Sexual Violence Case
President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador today held a public act of recognition of responsibility for the sexual violence suffered by teenager Paola Guzmán Albarracín that led her to suicide nearly two decades ago. The apology [...]
In New Testimony, Center Urges Congress to End Harmful Hyde Amendment
U.S. House of Representatives holds virtual hearing on anti-abortion policy that delays and blocks abortion access Today, the U.S. House of Representatives held a virtual hearing on the harms caused by the Hyde Amendment, a [...]
Center Appeals to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for Release of Unjustly Imprisoned Salvadoran Women
Women at Risk of COVID-19 After Inaction by Salvadoran Government The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on December 3 and urged it to recommend that [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
