Defending Human Rights: Teleconference and Webinar
Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment
Karen Leiter, author of the Defending Human Rights report and the Center’s Human Rights Researcher, lead a teleconference and webinar with Communications Connection, an interactive web forum for sharing ideas and approaches. Amy Hagstrom Miller, Executive Director and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, also joined the conversation and provided valuable insight as a provider.
Watch the webinar and listen as Karen and Amy walk through the fact finding for the report and answer questions from the audience.
WHAT:The Center for Reproductive Rights invites you to a discussion about its recently released report, Defending Human Rights: Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment. The report recognizes abortion providers as human rights defenders who work to further women’s human rights in the face of threats, economic reprisals and discriminatory restrictions and documents how attacks on providers undermine women’s ability to obtain abortion services. WHO:Karen Leiter joined the Center for Reproductive Rights in July 2008 as Human Rights Researcher in the U.S. Legal Program. She has 15 years of experience working in the U.S. and internationally as a researcher, advocate, educator and policy analyst in the field of health and human rights. | ![]() Watch the webinar >, |
Prior to joining the Center, Karen was the Senior Research Associate at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) where she served as lead investigator on several projects primarily focused on the health impacts of violations of women’s rights. Read more >,
RH Reality Check is supporting the series by posting each web discussion along with supplemental information on a password-protected section within their site. The section also houses information on upcoming presentations and a message board to further each discussion.
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Communications Connection provides national, state and local organizations the opportunity to share strategies, ideas, and good practices surrounding domestic reproductive rights and reproductive health issues as well as create new relationships within the pro-choice community. Each month, the series highlights a live hour-long case study presentation and interactive discussion.
The Communications Connection web forum series is a service for the domestic reproductive rights community from DDB Issues &, Advocacy, in partnership with RH Reality Check. It is supported by the David &, Lucile Packard Foundation.