Center for Reproductive Rights at the 2010 Global Maternal Health Conference
The Center will be participating in the Global Maternal Health Conference convened by the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth and the Public Health Foundation of India [...]
U.S. Submits Historic Human Rights Report to U.N., but Seriously Disappoints
By Michelle Movahed and Meredith Zingraff, originally posted in RH Reality Check This week, for the first time, the United States submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, a rotating body of countries [...]
Center Applauds Passage of New Kenyan Constitution A Landmark Development for Women’s Rights
(PRESS RELEASE) Yesterday, election officials in Kenya announced that voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, which in addition to increasing civil liberties and enshrining key economic and social rights, promotes women's equality and rights, including [...]
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 [...]
U.N. Calls on Nigeria to Tackle Teens Reproductive Health CRR and WARDC Urge Immediate Action
(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and its partners in Nigeria Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) strongly urged the government of Nigeria to take immediate steps to follow recommendations from the [...]
Center Wins 2010 Gruber Women’s Rights Prize
2010 Gruber Women's Rights Prize Recipients Hailed for Courageous Efforts in Advancing Women's Sexual and Reproductive Rights The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation today announced that it will award the 2010 Women's Rights Prize to [...]
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Washington Post: Should church control health care?
By Nancy Northup - On Faith guest voice Opinion pages of U.S. newspapers lambasted a decision by St. Joseph's Hospital, a Catholic institution in Phoenix, over the excommunication and demotion of a nun. Sister Margaret [...]
CRR, ACPD, and EIPR Applaud 108 Countries’ Call for U.N. to Address Maternal Deaths and Disabilities as Human Rights Issue
The Center for Reproductive Rights, Action Canada Population and Development (ACPD), and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) praised a group of United Nations Human Rights Council member states and observer states for calling on [...]
India and Poland Urged to Improve Reproductive Rights
On June 4, 2010, during the 14th session of the Human Rights Council, the United Nation's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover, presented reports on Poland and India. The report called on [...]
A Human Rights Approach to End Maternal Mortality
On Monday, June 14, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will relay a powerful message to the United Nations Human Rights Council: Preventable maternal death is a clear human rights issue [...]
Submission to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Maternal Mortality, Morbidity and Human Rights
Submission to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the preparation of the thematic study on Maternal Mortality, Morbidity and Human Rights This submission responds to the OHCHR Note Verbale's [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
