Human Rights v. World Cup
Human Rights v. World Cup “How can we balance our love of the game with our commitment to human rights?” asks Human Rights Watch Deputy Director, Iain Levine, in his timely opinion piece in Foreign [...]
Brazilian Lawmakers Hear Testimony Regarding Discrimination Against Women Seeking Maternal Health Care
Brazilian Lawmakers Hear Testimony Regarding Discrimination Against Women Seeking Maternal Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) Two years after the United Nations declared Brazil responsible for the death of an Afro-Brazilian woman —calling on the State to provide [...]
Time for Action
Brazil: Time for Action In August 2011, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) struck a blow for women worldwide when it recognized—in the first preventable maternal death case to [...]
UN Committee Holds Brazil Accountable
Last year, the Center for Reproductive Rights won a groundbreaking victory in our eight-year battle on behalf of Alyne da Silva Pimentel, an impoverished Afro-brazilian woman who died when doctors willfully failed to provide her [...]
RH Reality Check: International Human Rights Court Says Governments Must Ensure Timely Access to Maternal Health Services
By Jodi Jacobson "In 2002, Alyne da Silva Pimentel, a 28-year-old Afro-Brazilian woman, died after being denied basic medical care to address complications in her pregnancy. Her death might be like any one of the [...]
Historic U.N. Ruling Finds Brazil Violates Woman’s Human Rights in Maternal Death Case
(PRESS RELEASE) In the first-ever maternal death case to be decided by an international human rights body, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women established that governments have a human rights [...]
In the Name of Alyne: A Historic Human Rights Victory
Alyne da Silva Pimentel would have been 37 years old today if Brazil’s government had honored its responsibility to protect her fundamental human rights. Instead, because she was poor and Afro-Brazilian, she died in 2002 [...]
Decision: Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil
In the first maternal death case to be decided by an international human rights body, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) establishes that governments have a human rights obligation [...]
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Center for Reproductive Rights Opens New Regional Office in Colombia
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced the opening of its new regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogotá, Colombia. The Center has worked in the region for fifteen years, [...]
RH Reality Check: Are Women’s Rights on Obama’s Agenda in Latin America?
By Luisa Cabal and Lilian Sepúlveda For all of President Barack Obama's pledges that he stands for universal human rights, the fundamental rights of women are likely to be left off the table when he [...]
CRR in the Field: Mónica Arango Olaya
Since 1992, the Center's innovative legal work has fundamentally transformed the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and has already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries. CRR in the Field is [...]
Statement to ECOSOC: Maternal Mortality and the MDGs
The approach of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit in September provides a key opportunity for states and the international community to reassess their progress and confront challenges to achieving the MDGs. The Center for [...]
On this International Day of Action for Women’s Health, Center Calls on Brazil to Defeat Unprecedented Fetal Rights Bill
(PRESS STATEMENT) As the world commemorates International Day of Action for Women’s Health today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization, called on the Congress to defeat a draft bill that grants [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.