The Human Rights Council at its 11th regular session adopted a landmark resolution on “Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights.” In this resolution, governments express grave concern for the unacceptably high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, acknowledge that this is a human rights issue, and commit to enhance their efforts at the […]
As part of our efforts for the approval of the Human Rights Resolution, “Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and Human Rights,” that was adopted at the 11th session of the Human Rights Council, the Center hosted, together with other organizations, an event at the HRC featuring an expert panel to discuss maternal mortality and human […]
In September 2004, a pregnant woman died as a result of being denied access to medical care for fear of harming the fetus. Her mother, Z., is suing Poland for having violated her daughter’s rights including her right to life, private life, freedom from in human and degrading treatment, effective remedy, and non-discrimination. Filing date: […]
An expansion of the “global gag rule” or “Mexico City Policy”-a policy that denies United States development funds to organizations that perform or advocate for abortion, even with their own, non-U.S. funds-poses a grave danger to the lives and health of countless women around the world. Bush Administration Takes Global Gag Rule Even Further […]
The global gag rule, or ",Mexico City Policy,", restricts foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive U.S. family planning assistance from advocating for or providing abortion-related services, even with their own, non-U.S. resources. 1 A recent report from the Center for Reproductive Rights– Breaking the Silence: The Global Gag Rule’s Impact on Unsafe Abortion—and a report […]
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 […]
17-year-old K.L. took on the country Peru for enabling officials to force her to carry a fatally-impaired fetus to term. When our client K.L. was seventeen years old, she found out that she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. Even though abortion is legal in Peru for therapeutic reasons, K.L. was illegally denied access to […]
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