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Perilous Pregnancies: Health Care for Undocumented Migrant Women in the EU (2020) card link

Perilous Pregnancies: Health Care for Undocumented Migrant Women in the EU (2020)

A report by the Center for Reproductive Rights on the barriers in access to affordable maternal health care for undocumented migrant women in the European Union. International public health guidelines stipulate that reducing maternal mortality [...]

Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,Europe,Reporting on Rights,Publications

Center Leader Recognized for Work on Black Maternal Health

Breana Lipscomb, Senior Manager of the Maternal Health and Rights Initiative at the Center for Reproductive Rights, was recently awarded the inaugural Kira Johnson Advocate of the Year Award for her work on Black maternal [...]

Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,United States,Engaging Policymakers,News

Unequal Access to Maternal Health Care in the EU

Access to quality maternal health care is a human right to which all women and girls are entitled. Regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, or any other social, economic or political affiliation, all pregnant persons are [...]

Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,Europe,Reporting on Rights,News

Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador

Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,News

Voces Ignoradas: Experiencias de Mujeres con el Virus del Zika – Colombia

Access to Quality Care,Latin America & Caribbean, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World, Reporting on Rights,Publications
Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika in Colombia card link

Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika in Colombia

The goal of this report is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impacts that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in Colombia. Secondly, this report analyzes the [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Contraception, Legal Restrictions, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,Latin America & Caribbean, Colombia,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Publications

Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika in Brazil

The goal of this report is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impact that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in Brazil. Secondly, this report analyzes the [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Contraception, Legal Restrictions, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Other Financial Barriers, Public Funding, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,Latin America & Caribbean, Brazil,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Publications

Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika in El Salvador

The goal of this report is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impact that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in El Salvador. Secondly, the report analyzes [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Contraception, Legal Restrictions, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,Latin America & Caribbean, El Salvador,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Publications

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika – The Global Response card link

Unheard Voices: Women’s Experiences with Zika – The Global Response

The goal of this report series is threefold: firstly, it presents and evaluates the diverse impacts that the Zika virus has had on the reproductive lives of women living in Colombia, Brazil, and El Salvador. [...]

Legal Restrictions, Contraception, Legal Restrictions, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,Latin America & Caribbean, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Publications

Roma Women Speak Out

Roma women share their experiences of discriminatory treatment in reproductive health care settings in Slovakia. Segregation. Racial harassment. Physical restraint and neglect during childbirth. Roma women in Slovakia speak about their experiences of discrimination and [...]

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Bungoma High Court Judgment in Josephine Oundo Ongwen v. the Attorney General & 4 Others (Fact Sheet)

Bungoma High Court Petition No. 5 of 2014

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Teodora Is Free

    Teodora Is Free     Our client Teodora was released from prison this month. She was unjustly imprisoned for 11 years under El Salvador’s inhumane abortion law after suffering a stillbirth. Watch our [...]

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A Proactive Vision

The Center gathered nearly 200 state legislators and advocates in Washington, D.C., to discuss strategies for advancing women’s reproductive health. What happens when you convene some of the nation’s brightest leaders in state reproductive health, [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Contraception, Legal Restrictions, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,United States,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World, In the States (USA),News

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.