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Despite Country’s Own Laws, Costa Rica Continues to Deny Women Legal Abortion
Despite Country’s Own Laws, Costa Rica Continues to Deny Women Legal Abortion Center for Reproductive Rights brings second case of human rights violations in Costa Rica to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (PRESS RELEASE) [...]
Shadow Letter on the Republic of Moldova to the Committee against Torture
On March 21, 2012, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partner, the Institutul pentru Drepturile Omului din Moldova (the Moldovan Institute for Human Rights), submitted a shadow letter to the Committee against Torture for [...]
Piercing Review of Kenya’s Reproductive Health Services
Piercing Review of Kenya’s Reproductive Health Services In May 2013, the Committee against Torture conducted its periodic review of the human rights situation in Kenya, assessing the country's compliance with the United Nations Convention against [...]
UN Committee Issues Recommendations to Rwanda
UN Committee Issues Recommendations to Rwanda In March 2013, the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted its first-ever shadow letter on Rwanda to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( UNCESCR) to [...]
New York Times Letter to the Editor: ‘Beatriz’ of El Salvador, Denied a Lifesaving Abortion
New York Times Letter to the Editor: ‘Beatriz’ of El Salvador, Denied a Lifesaving Abortion To the Editor: Re “Salvador Court Denies Abortion to Ailing Woman, Citing Strict Prohibition” (news article, May 30) and “A [...]
Inter-American Court of Human Rights Orders El Salvador Government to Allow Pregnant Woman with Critical Complications Access to Life-saving Health Care
IACHR Orders El Salvador Government to Allow Pregnant Woman Access to Life-Saving Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) Just hours after the Salvadoran Supreme Court denied a potentially life-saving abortion for a woman with serious complications in [...]
Human Rights Committee Calls Out Peru for Highly Restrictive Abortion Law
The UN Human Rights Committee recently criticized Peru for a wide range of reproductive rights violations, including highly restrictive abortion legislation and a high rate of maternal mortality. During its 107th session in March 2013, [...]
Submission to the U.N. Human Rights Committee for the U.S. List of Issues
Click the link below to download the Center's submission to the U.N. Human Rights Committee regarding the four key reproductive rights issues we intend to highlight during the Committee’s periodic review of the United States [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Comments to the U.S. Government on its Fourth Periodic Report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee
Click the link below to download comments to the U.S. Government on its Fourth Periodic Report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee, the human rights body that monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil [...]
CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan
CEDAW Committee addresses a wide range of reproductive rights violations in its review of Pakistan The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) recently issued concluding observations from its February review of [...]
Pursuit of Justice
Pursuit of Justice The story of Polish daughter and mother P and S is deeply complicated. P, a teenager, was raped and became pregnant as a consequence. She wanted to terminate the pregnancy and had [...]
UN Body Slams Abortion Laws
UN Body Slams Abortion Laws This month, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) condemned Hungary for two types of abortion restrictions that are on the rise both in Europe [...]
Shadow Letter on Hungary to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
In January, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its Hungarian partner, PATENT Association, submitted a shadow letter to the 54th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the situation of [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
