Emergency Contraception (EC): An Affirmative Agenda to Improve Access, July 2003 (PDF)
Legislative advocacy packet on EC topics containing background information, factsheets, talking points, model legislation, statutes and strategy guidelines. Click below for individual chapters.
Bodies on Trial: Reproductive Rights in Latin American Courts
The judicial branch of government is essential to the viability and sustainability of any democracy. Judges make decisions every day that directly affect people's lives, influencing public perceptions of whether and how justice is being [...]
Body and Soul: Forced Sterilization and Other Assaults on Roma Reproductive Freedom
Romani women in Slovakia continue to be subject to grave violations of their human rights, particularly their reproductive rights, even though a communist-era law offering monetary incentives for sterilization has been rescinded. A three-month fact-finding [...]
Claiming Our Rights: Surviving Pregnancy and Childbirth in Mali
The right to survive pregnancy and childbirth is grounded in women’s right to life, the most fundamental of human rights guarantees. This right remains unrealized in Mali, where pregnancy and childbirth take the lives of [...]
Breaking the Silence: The Global Gag Rule’s Impact on Unsafe Abortion
Executive Summary Every year, twenty million—mostly poor—women around the world are driven to unsafe abortion. More than 95% of these abortions occur in low-income countries. And every year, complications from these procedures claim the lives [...]
Body and Soul: Forced Sterilization and Other Assaults on Roma Reproductive Freedom
Romani women in Slovakia continue to be subject to grave violations of their human rights, particularly their reproductive rights, even though a communist-era law offering monetary incentives for sterilization has been rescinded. A three-month fact-finding [...]
Roe v. Wade and the Right to Privacy
Roe v. Wade and the Right to Privacy Roe v. Wade remains a touchstone in the struggle for reproductive rights, yet many people know little about the decision aside from the fact [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Reproductive Rights are Human Rights
The legal foundations for women's reproductive rights are built upon a variety of human rights recognized under international law. This pocket-size booklet delineates ten key human rights, cited from major international legal instruments, which encompass [...]
Reproductive Rights 2000 Moving Forward
"With the new millennium upon us, we should take this opportunity to consider how recent positive developments can be replicated elsewhere to shape a future in which reproductive rights are recognized worldwide as basic human [...]
From Rights to Reality: How to Advocate for Women’s Reproductive Freedom Worldwide (PDF), 2003
This handbook provides tools and strategies that anyone can use to advocate for the reproductive rights of women and girls everywhere. Whether you're going it alone and have limited political experience or you're already familiar [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
