Briefing Paper: The Right to Contraceptive Information and Services for Women and Adolescents
Around the world, the unmet need for safe and effective contraceptive services is staggering: Roughly 215 million women in developing countries rely on traditional contraceptive methods with high failure rates or do not use a [...]
UN Looks at U.S. Healthcare Through a Different Lens
By Cynthia Soohoo, Originally published in RH Reality Check 12.8.10 - After the midterm elections, Republican leaders are claiming a mandate to undo healthcare reform. Last Friday, there was an opportunity to look at healthcare [...]
Celebrating World Contraception Day
Did you know that the average U.S. woman who wants two children will spend five years pregnant, or trying to get pregnant, and 30 years trying to avoid pregnancy? Or that 215 million women worldwide [...]
Center Celebrates International Women’s Day and Launch of UN Women
On March 8, the Center for Reproductive Rights joins women around the world in celebrating the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, as well as the official launch of UN Women, the newly created United [...]
United States Renews Commitment to Achieving Global Development Goals
Health and Human Rights Organizations Applaud U.S. Support for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights (PRESS RELEASE) This afternoon, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton commemorated the 15th anniversary of a major international [...]
Slovakia: Access to Contraceptives – The Social and Economic Benefits and Role in Achieving Gender Equality
The Center is working with its partners in Slovakia to advocate for the government to provide subsidized access to contraceptives for the most vulnerable populations. This fact sheet details Slovakia's obligations under international and European [...]
Slovakia: European Standards on Subsidizing Contraceptives
The Center is working with its partners in Slovakia to advocate for the government to provide subsidized access to contraceptives for the most vulnerable populations. This fact sheet details Slovakia's obligations under international and European [...]
Slovakia: Setting the Record Straight on Contraceptives
The Center is working with its partners in Slovakia to advocate for the government to provide subsidized access to contraceptives for the most vulnerable populations. This fact sheet details Slovakia's obligations under international and European [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Slovakia: International Standards on Subsidizing Contraceptives
The Center is working with its partners in Slovakia to advocate for the government to provide subsidized access to contraceptives for the most vulnerable populations. This fact sheet details Slovakia's obligations under international and European [...]
Reproductive Health Groups Around the World Demand Governments Keep 15-Year Promise to Address Women’s Reproductive Rights
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, activists representing more than 400 sexual and reproductive health groups from 131 countries called on national governments around the world to establish and implement concrete and fully-funded actions in order to fulfill [...]
ICPD + 15: Commemorating Advances, Calling for Greater Accountability
The Center for Reproductive Rights commemorates the 15 year anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), celebrating advancements for women's human rights and highlighting the ICPD's role in promoting recognition of reproductive [...]
Repro Rights Are Human Rights
Six months pregnant and feeling unwell, a poor woman goes to a state-run clinic in Rio de Janeiro for help—and is turned away. A week later, she is dead. Halfway around the world, in Hungary, [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
