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New Investigation Details Devastating Impact of Texas Family Planning Cuts on Latinas in the Rio Grande Valley
New Report Details Devastating Impact of Texas Family Planning Cuts on Latinas in Rio Grande Valley Clinic closures, high costs and lack of transportation cause widespread human rights violations (PRESS RELEASE) **Ver abajo para versión [...]
New U.N. Report Links Adolescent Pregnancy to Human Rights Failures, Calls on States to Address Range of Contributing Issues
U.N. Report Links Adolescent Pregnancy to Human Rights Failures, Calls on States to Address Contributing Issues (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights commended the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today for linking adolescent pregnancy [...]
United Nations: Women Living in War-Torn Countries Need Comprehensive Reproductive Health Services
UN: Women Living in War-Torn Countries Need Comprehensive Reproductive Health Services U.N. Security Council and CEDAW Committee Address Lack of Essential Health Care for Women Living in Conflict (PRESS RELEASE) Acknowledging the devastating impact of [...]
European Parliament Postpones Vote For Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
European Parliament Delays Adoption of Reproductive Health Report (PRESS RELEASE) In a 351 to 319 vote Tuesday, members of the European Parliament delayed the adoption of a report calling on all European Union members to [...]
Texas Health Care Providers in Federal Court to Block Harmful Anti-Choice Measures
Texas Health Care Providers in Federal Court to Block Harmful Anti-Choice Measures (PRESS RELEASE) A federal judge will hear testimony and arguments today in a legal challenge to block two harmful and unconstitutional provisions of [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights: Politicians in U.S. House Holding Women’s Health Hostage
Center for Reproductive Rights: Politicians in U.S. House Holding Women's Health Hostage (PRESS RELEASE) Politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives over the weekend attached a so-called “conscience clause” to a must-pass federal government spending [...]
State Judge Blocks Okla. Emergency Contraception Restrictions
State Judge Blocks Okla. Emergency Contraception Restrictions Plan B One-Step can remain on pharmacy, grocery store shelves without restriction pending outcome of Center for Reproductive Rights lawsuit (PRESS RELEASE) A state judge ruled today that [...]
NEW LAWSUIT: Oklahoma Law Restricting Emergency Contraception Violates State Constitution, Discriminates Against Women
NEW LAWSUIT: Oklahoma Law Restricting Emergency Contraception Violates State Constitution Center for Reproductive Rights seeks to block law keeping emergency contraception behind the counter before it takes effect Aug. 22 (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for [...]
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U.N. Committee Finds U.S. Is Falling Short in Tackling Racism in Reproductive Health Care
California Congresswoman Joins Center in Speaking Out against Disparities NEW YORK - Today, on the eve of International Women's Day, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said the United States was [...]
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 [...]
U.S.-based Sex-Ed Program Comes Under Fire in International Human Rights Case
Groups Charge Croatia is Endangering Lives of its Young People NEW YORK - Today, a group of advocacy organizations filed the first human rights legal challenge to a faith- based sex-education program with roots in [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on U.S. to Keep It’s Promise to Protect Reproductive Rights
United States Goes Before U.N. Human Rights Committee Geneva - Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights urged the United States to uphold the legal pledge it made under the International Covenant on Civil and Political [...]
U.S. Women Face Unprecedented Assault on Reproductive Rights, Center for Reproductive Rights Testifies Before Human Rights Committee
New York, NY—Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights testified before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), informing the panel of the U.S. government’s failures to protect women’s reproductive rights as covered in the principal [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.