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Peace Corps volunteers risk their lives to serve, but Congress refuses to give them the same health coverage as other federal employees. When Peace Corps Volunteer Christine Carcano was raped during her service in Peru, [...]
Filipino Women React to New Rights
Filipino Women React to New Rights This week The Star Online, a Malaysian-based newspaper, explores the personal impact of the Philippine Supreme Court’s landmark decision to uphold a law expanding access to birth control and [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Challenges to Birth Control Benefits in Affordable Care Act
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Challenges to Birth Control Benefits in Affordable Care Act Two for-profit companies, including arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby, attempting to impose religious beliefs on female employees by refusing [...]
New Federal Bill Restores Vital Health Care Services to Immigrant Women and Families
New Federal Bill Restores Vital Health Care Services to Immigrant Women and Families Center for Reproductive Rights Calls Measure “Crucial,” Urges Congress to Support Health Care Coverage for all Women (PRESS RELEASE) Today Congresswoman Michelle [...]
U.S. Human Rights at the U.N.
U.S. Human Rights at the U.N. The United States government, like all nations that have ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), must periodically report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee. To [...]
WATCH: Texas Law Closes Two More Clinics
WATCH: Texas Law Closes Two More Clinics Amy Hagstrom Miller, owner of Whole Woman’s Health and our client, appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show last night to deliver devastating news: the unconstitutional law passed in [...]
Downton Abbey & Black History Month
Downton Abbey & Black History Month Great piece over the weekend from Talking Points Memo writer Nicole Beisel. Beisel takes a look at a recent storyline on the popular television show “Downton Abbey” when one [...]
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Calls for Expanded Access to Safe, Legal Reproductive Health Care
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Calls for Expanded Access to Safe, Legal Reproductive Health Care Municipal resolution declares February “Women, Girls, and Transgender Women’s Health Month,” calls for passage of federal Women’s Health Protection Act [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
New Health and Human Rights Teaching Resource
New Health and Human Rights Teaching Resource We are very excited to report the launch of the Health and Human Rights Syllabus Database. Compiled by the Program on Global Health &, Human Rights, Institute for Global [...]
Oklahoma EC Law Thrown Out of Court
Oklahoma EC Law Thrown Out of Court An Oklahoma state court judge threw out a recently passed law that tried to reinstate unnecessary governmental barriers to emergency contraception. The restrictions required prescriptions for those under [...]
Oklahoma Judge: Restrictions on Emergency Contraception Violate State Constitution
Oklahoma Judge: Restrictions on Emergency Contraception Violate State Constitution Oklahoma women will continue to have same access to safe and effective emergency contraception as other women across the U.S. (PRESS RELEASE) Late yesterday, an Oklahoma [...]
The State of the States 2013
The State of the States 2013 The Landscape of Abortion Restrictions Passed in 2013 Over the past year, we have had to double the size of our team of attorneys and experts who track state [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
