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An Open Letter to Michigan Legislators
An Open Letter to Michigan Legislators Dear Speaker Bolger and Senator Richardville, We strongly urge you to allow Michigan voters to decide whether they support the initiative that would force women to purchase a [...]
A Human Rights Crisis
Nuestro Texas is a major effort that seeks to mobilize women in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley to fight for their health and human rights. Ida was getting “desperate.” The mother of two had received a [...]
In Pursuit of Justice
The Brazilian government still has to take big steps to fulfill the historic CEDAW Committee’s ruling on maternal mortality. Twenty-eight-year-old Alyne de Silva Pimentel, a poor Afro-Brazilian woman with a young daughter, was six months [...]
Ending the Shame
No great leaps in medical technology will ever alter the reality that a certain percentage of pregnancies fail for natural, unavoidable reasons. What can, and what in fact must, change is the care women receive [...]
Fighting for Women in Ireland
Fighting for Women in Ireland On Nov 13, the Center for Reproductive Rights joined with the Irish organization Doctors for Choice to stand with three women who were forced to leave the country to terminate [...]
Sharing Our Stories
Sharing Our Stories There was much to celebrate at the Center for Reproductive Rights 2013 Annual Gala. In the previous 30 hours, we secured crucial victories for women in Texas and Oklahoma. And we presented [...]
2013 Student Policy and Advocacy Award goes to Tulane LSRJ
2013 Student Policy and Advocacy Award goes to Tulane LSRJ Tulane University Law School chapter of Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) receives the Center for Reproductive Rights Student Policy and Advocacy Award This semester, [...]
UN Takes Major Action to End Child Marriage
UN Takes Major Action to End Child Marriage For the first time in history, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution dedicated to ending the blight of child marriage. Over 100 countries co-sponsored [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Childhood Discarded
A new report calls on the governments in South Asia to stop the human rights crisis that is child marriage. At a time when girls in many countries are thinking about their math homework or [...]
Contraceptive Access Case Filed In Supreme Court of Nepal
Contraceptive Access Case Filed In Supreme Court of Nepal Last month, the first case to be developed by the Center for Reproductive Rights’ South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative (SARJAI) was filed in the [...]
Forced Out
Mandatory Pregnancy Testing and the Expulsion of Pregnant Students in Tanzanian Schools Think back to your teenage years—the angst of “fitting in” or of capturing the attention of your latest crush. Now imagine going to [...]
United Across the U.S.
Transforming this nation’s reproductive rights landscape, to one in which all women have access to the full range of reproductive health care, will require vigorous and widespread pressure on Congress from Americans. On September 25, [...]
2014 Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for New Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights
Call for submissions - win prizes, get published! The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) invite submissions for the ninth annual Sarah Weddington Writing Prize. The 1st place winning [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
