https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/crr_doc_image_Annual_Report_11_12.jpg Twenty years ago, the Center for Reproductive Rights was founded to advance a vision of equality, autonomy, and dignity for all women worldwide, based on the bedrock principle that reproductive rights are human rights. Today we stand at the vanguard of our movement, with enormous stores of experience, deep wells of legal talent, a […]
In Focus: Uganda The Center for Reproductive Rights has embarked on a series of new projects in Uganda as part of its wider work in the African region. Working to highlight reproductive rights violations in the country, the Center has researched and submitted two shadow letters on the current state of reproductive rights in Uganda. […]
In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in France who were forcibly sterilized—arguing that forced sterilization constitutes a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Download the […]
In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in France who were forcibly sterilized—arguing that forced sterilization constitutes a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Case filed: […]
The House of Representatives-proposed Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 2012 would reinstate a failed Bush-era policy — the “Global Gag Rule” — that would silence overseas community groups and health experts, preventing them from discussing access to safe, legal abortion – even when this needed counseling is funded with other money kept separate from federal […]
By Aram Schvey, counsel for foreign policy and human rights at the Center for Reproductive Rights When Congress turns this week to another round of negotiations over spending for 2011, much of the country will be focused on the sure-to-be contentious debate over the House proposal to strip federal funding from family planning services, including […]
City of Baltimore and CRR Plan to Appeal Crisis Pregnancy Center Court Decision (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights and the City of Baltimore will be immediately appealing a court decision issued today involving a legal challenge to a new city ordinance that demands truth in advertising from crisis pregnancy centers in Baltimore. Although […]
By Kay Steiger “The 2010 midterms brought into office 29 anti-choice governors, raising the number of states with both anti-choice majority legislatures and governors to 15. Pro-choice advocates fear the next two years will bring a marked increase in state-level restrictions to abortion access. Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, is anticipating […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/uslp_roundup.jpg In the United States, state legislatures wield enormous power to control women’s access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare services. Each year, anti-choice state legislators propose measures intended to restrict women’s access to abortion, including mandatory delays, biased counseling provisions and other burdensome and unnecessary requirements. Hundreds of anti-choice bills are proposed annually and […]
Costa Rica’s proposed bill on in vitro fertilization (IVF) violates international human rights standards, according to a brief the Center submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on November 18. Even though IVF has helped countless couples around the world have children they desperately want, Costa Rica has outlawed it since 2000. The […]