UN Committee Urges Russia to Fulfill Women’s Rights
During its July session, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) issued its Concluding Observations on the Russian Federation 's compliance with its obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill [...]
Report on the United States’ Compliance with Its Human Rights Obligations In the Area of Women’s Reproductive and Sexual Health
The United Nations Human Rights Council has introduced a process designed to review countries’ compliance with human rights obligations as contained in (1) the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (2) the United Nations Charter, (3) [...]
Decline in Maternal Mortality Welcome, but Suffering Persists
By Ximena Andión Ibañez, International Advocacy Director An article in the recent Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, announced a global decrease in maternal deaths from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The Center [...]
One Year Later: Celebrating Nepal’s Comprehensive Abortion Law
One year ago today, May 20, 2010, the Nepal Supreme Court ordered the government of Nepal to enact a comprehensive abortion law guaranteeing that all women have safe and affordable access to legal abortion services [...]
Global Scholars Incubator: May 16-17, 2010
By Rob Stein The Global Scholars Incubator will bring an international group of legal scholars together with key attorneys from the Center for Reproductive Rights to exchange information about legal developments in different countries, catalyze [...]
Washington Post: New health-care law raises concerns about respecting providers’ consciences
By Rob Stein "Deep within the massive health-care overhaul legislation, a few little-noticed provisions have quietly reignited one of the bitterest debates in medicine: how to balance the right of doctors, nurses and other workers [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights on Nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, President Obama announced that he will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights issued [...]
Reproductive Rights are Human Rights 2009
Women's reproductive rights are essential to realizing a wide range of fundamental human rights. In particular, women's lives, liberty and security, heath, autonomy, privacy, equality and non-discrimination and education, among others, cannot be protected without [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Philippines Must Act on Magna Carta of Women
After languishing for more than 10 years in three different congresses, the Magna Carta of Women (Magna Carta), Republic Act 9710, was signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines on August 14, [...]
Citizens’s Petition (Supplement 2002): Food and Drug Administration
In 2001, the Center, along with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and numerous women's health organizations, filed a Citizen's Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to switch emergency contraception drugs [...]
Citizens’s Petition (Supplement 2001): Food and Drug Administration
In 2001, the Center, along with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and numerous women's health organizations, filed a Citizen's Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to switch emergency contraception drugs [...]
Citizens’s Petition: Food and Drug Administration
In 2001, the Center, along with the Reproductive Health Technologies Project and numerous women's health organizations, filed a Citizen's Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to switch emergency contraception drugs [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
