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U.S. Supreme Court Lets Private Companies Deny Birth Control Coverage to Employees
U.S. Supreme Court Lets Private Companies Deny Birth Control Coverage to Employees Setting a dangerous precedent, nation’s highest court allows bosses to discriminate against employees’ health care coverage based solely on personal, religious views (PRESS [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights, American Constitution Society Honor UCLA Student Leaders
Center for Reproductive Rights, American Constitution Society Honor UCLA Student Leaders (PRESS RELEASE) The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), in partnership with the Center for Reproductive Rights, will present the second annual [...]
Human Rights v. World Cup
Human Rights v. World Cup “How can we balance our love of the game with our commitment to human rights?” asks Human Rights Watch Deputy Director, Iain Levine, in his timely opinion piece in Foreign [...]
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 [...]
Black Women & Bodily Autonomy
Black Women & Bodily Autonomy The May edition of Essence magazine takes a look at what’s at stake for African-American women in the battle over reproductive rights. With extremist politicians passing an inordinate number of [...]
Philippine Supreme Court Upholds Historic Reproductive Health Law
For recent updates on the Center's Work in the Philippines, click here. 04.08.14 (PRESS RELEASE) After more than a year deliberating the constitutionality of the country’s historic Reproductive Health Law passed in 2012, the Philippine [...]
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 [...]
Contraception at the UN
A powerful new UN statement demands that women have access to affordable, quality contraceptive services and information. The evidence is staggering. Never has there been so much data about the impact contraception can have—the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
United Nations Human Rights Council Urged to Address Lack of Access to Contraceptives and Family Planning
United Nations Human Rights Council Urged to Address Lack of Access to Contraceptives and Family Planning (PRESS RELEASE) The governments of Argentina, Denmark, Ethiopia, and Morocco are leading a group of more than 60 states [...]
Abandoned By a Nation
The Center filed a new case against Ireland to stop its health care system from turning its back on women in desperate need of help. It’s nearly impossible to go through this life and not [...]
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 [...]
Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies
Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies [OP-ED] by Rebecca Brown Earlier this year France was the latest to join a handful of progressive countries to expand access to reproductive health services — with [...]
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 [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.