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New CRR Report Shows Slovakia Lags Behind in Access to Contraception
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Slovak human rights groups, Freedom of Choice Slovakia and Citizen, Democracy and Accountability released a sobering report that critically examined the numerous barriers Slovak women face [...]
Center Releases Updated Report on Manila City’s Ban on Modern Contraception
For ten years, a devastating ban on modern contraceptives in Manila City, the Philippines, has denied women their basic right to protect their health and decide whether and when to have children. The Center and [...]
New Report Links Philippines Abortion Law to Human Rights Abuses
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights released the first comprehensive human rights report on the impact of the Philippines' criminal ban on abortion. Through interviews and legal analysis, Forsaken Lives: The Harmful Impact [...]
Associated Press: Rights group slams Philippine abortion ban
By Teresa Cerojano "A U.S.-based rights group urged the Philippines on Monday to reform a tough anti-abortion law that it says has spawned widespread underground procedures that kill about 1,000 women each year in the [...]
New York Times: Rights Group Denounces Illegality of Abortion in Philippines
By Carlos H. Conde "A new study of abortion in the Philippines denounces the government for keeping it illegal, causing what the authors describe as a 'human rights crisis' that victimizes tens of thousands of [...]
African Women Still Not Getting Justice in National Courts, New Report Finds
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced new research finding that national courts in African Commonwealth countries have failed to fully protect women against human rights violations, particularly in cases of sexual violence, [...]
Manila City’s Contraception Ban
In 2000, Executive Order 003 was introduced by former Mayor José "Lito" Atienza of Manila City. It effectively prohibits the use and provision of modern contraception. Because of the contraception ban, public health centers in Manila [...]
Philippine Supreme Court Dismisses Plea to Revoke Contraception Ban
In a major blow to women's human rights, the Philippine Supreme Court has rejected a plea to strike down a devastating contraception ban in Manila City. The case was filed by twenty Manila citizens whose [...]
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Filipino Women and Men Sue Manila Mayor For Ban on Contraception
Suit Follows Release of Human Rights Groups' Study Finding Ban has Triggered Reproductive Health Crisis MANILA - Twenty Manila women and men filed a case today in a Philippine high court against the mayor of [...]
Legal Action Readied Against Ex-Mayor Atienza
Various citizens' groups announced yesterday that they are readying legal action against former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza for damages done to women and poor families by his nine-year ban on contraception in the city's health [...]
What’s Missing from the Beijing Platform?
Center Holds Panel on Using the Force of Law to Transform Beijing’s Commitments into Reality WHAT: Panel presentation and open discussion on legal strategies for implementing the reproductive rights commitments of the Beijing Platform for [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
