“If President Obama follows his new science directive, then teenagers will have the medicine and knowledge to protect their health,” writes Nancy Northup in a letter to the editor to The New York Times’ today, commenting on news that President Obama has a new take on mixing science and politics. Science and Sex EducationPublished: March […]
Lesson One: Your Gender is Your Destiny – The Constitutionality of Teaching Sex Stereotypes in Abstinence-Only Programs By Bonnie Scott Jones and Michelle Movahed, September 2008 https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Jones-Movahed-Issue-Brief.pdf
Written Testimony of Center for Reproductive Rights and Human RightsWatch to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the Human Rights Concerns of Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/CRR__HRW_Abstinence_Only_Testimony.pdf
The Center for Reproductive Rights initiated this case in 2003 after then-Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline issued an opinion that construed the State’s child-abuse reporting statute to require doctors, nurses, school counselors, psychotherapists, and others to report as a potential victim of child abuse any adolescent under the age of 16 whom the provider suspected […]
The case challenged the sexual education curriculums in Croatia that are religious and ideology-based models. Such programs, while claiming to provide youth with tools to lead healthier and more moral lives, have failed to provide adolescents with objective, accurate and scientifically-based information on key reproductive health issues, including contraception, abortion and sexually transmitted diseases, including […]
An International Human Right: Sexuality Education for Adolescents in Schools https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/WEB_pub_fac_sexed_10.10.pdf
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/atrisk_cover.jpg Women living with HIV in Kenya who seek medical care suffer multiple human rights violations and encounter daunting barriers to quality healthcare. The Center will highlight findings from its new report At Risk: Rights Violations of HIV-Positive Women in Kenyan Health Facilities on March 4, during this year’s meeting of the United Nations Commission […]
The Center Spotlights Reproductive Rights at the XVII International AIDS Conference Human rights, including reproductive rights, must be at the center of the fight against HIV/AIDS. The Center for Reproductive Rights will be taking that message to the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City on August 1 – 8. The conference is the world’s […]
California Congresswoman Joins Center in Speaking Out against Disparities NEW YORK – Today, on the eve of International Women’s Day, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said the United States was falling short in its duty to eliminate persistent racial inequities in reproductive and sexual health care. Expressing concern that “wide […]
The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear. Initially published in 2002, Bringing Rights to Bear takes a long, hard look at the thousands of comments, statements, and recommendations produced by UN treaty-monitoring bodies, analyzing their potential for advancing reproductive rights. Our 2008 update, produced as a series of […]