The Center submitted a shadow letter on Ecuador before the Committee against Torture in October 2010.  This letter underlines the human rights violations incurred due to pervasive sexual violence against girls in schools in Ecuador, [...]

In October 2010, the Center submitted a shadow letter before the Committee against Torture to shed light on the dire situation of pervasive sexual violence against girls in schools in Ecuador and examine the human [...]

Download the key sources for statistics cited in the Forsaken Lives Executive Summary.

Please note that earlier this year, Monaco liberalized its criminal code provisions governing abortion, from a total ban on abortion to allow express exceptions for the risk to the woman’s health or life, fetal impairment [...]

Per this letter we respectfully submit to the Grand Chamber new information updating our written submission of 31 October 2008 and supplementary letter of 5 October 2009. The additional information we wish to present at [...]

"My name is Aram Schvey, and I serve as Policy Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights. The Center is a global human rights organization that uses constitutional and international human rights law to promote [...]

Written Statement of the Center for Reproductive Rights Submitted to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law For November 18, 2010 Hearing on: "Women's Rights Are Human Rights: U.S. [...]

The Costa Rican media recently reported1 that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights communicated report No. 85/10, the preliminary report for Case 12.361, to Costa Rica on August 23, 2010. This report establishes that decision [...]

More women than ever before are living with HIV around the world, and too many of them suffer cruel reproductive rights violations. The Center's newest fact-finding report, Dignity Denied: Violations of the Rights of HIV-Positive [...]