Center for Reproductive Rights Opens New Regional Office in Kenya
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced the
opening of its new Africa regional office in Nairobi, Kenya. As an
international legal advocacy organization, the Center has worked for over a
decade across the continent of Africa to advance women’s access to reproductive
health services through law and policy reform. The new office will enable the
organization to more readily respond to emerging opportunities for change within
countries and engage more robustly with local advocates and policymakers.
“In the last ten years, women and civil society around the
world have been increasingly successful in pushing their governments to respect
women’s reproductive rights,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for
Reproductive Rights. “Now is an opportune time to build on that progress with
our partners and make sure those legal victories translate into real gains for
women.”
In the first year, the Nairobi office will focus on the most The Center employs a multitude of legal and human rights strategies “Our goal is to build a robust body of law that will The Nairobi office will be run by Slattery, who has been |
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