Systemic Racism and Reproductive Injustice in the United States
The Center for Reproductive Rights joined a broad coalition of reproductive rights, health, and justice organizations to submit a report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) in preparation for [...]
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, July 2022)
This Center report provides detailed analysis of state high court cases litigated by the Center that built strong protections for abortion rights and access using personal autonomy, privacy, and equality frameworks prior to the Dobbs [...]
(Report) The Constitutional Right to Reproductive Autonomy: Realizing the Promise of the 14th Amendment
This Center report delves into constitutional rights and guarantees in U.S. law that undergird the right to reproductive autonomy.
Aligning the Penal Code to the Constitution: The Malindi High Court Decision on the Question of Abortion in Kenya (Factsheet)
The case of PAK and Salim Mohammed v. Attorney General and Three Others, Malindi High Court
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda
This report by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the African Population and Health Research Center, and partners reveals that women and girls from low-income backgrounds in five African countries faced multiple barriers in accessing sexual and [...]
Implementing Rights-based Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings (Report)
Read the report of the pilot study conducted by the Center and CARE International in Uganda.
State Constitutions and Abortion Rights: Building Protections for Reproductive Autonomy (Report, April 2022)
This Center report outlines 11 states in which high courts have recognized that their state constitutions protect abortion rights and access independently from and more strongly than the U.S. Constitution or have struck down restrictions [...]
What You Need to Know About the Historic Nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court
On February 25, 2022, President Biden announced his intention to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement. Judge Jackson has had a [...]
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2021 State Legislative Wrap-up (Report)
State Policy Report: An overview of the state landscape
Report: Ensuring Equitable Access to Infertility Care in the United States: Guiding Principles for Policies Mandating Insurance Coverage
Inequities in health and access to healthcare, including infertility care, are pervasive in the United States. Well-documented disparities in access to infertility care reveal that people of color, people with low incomes, people with disabilities, [...]
Access to SRHR Information by Women and Girls in Kenya
The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partner, Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH), have launched a new report titled Access to SRHR Information by Women and Girls in Kenya: Assessment of Nairobi, Bungoma, Homabay, [...]
2020 Legislative Wrap up
The Center for Reproductive Rights 2020 Legislative Wrap-up provides a report of U.S. state abortion laws enacted during the year. As states were forced to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, economic upheaval, and a racial reckoning, [...]
Open Secret: The Toll of Unsafe Abortion in Tanzania
This research documents the experiences of Tanzanian women and girls with unsafe abortion, including the role of the restrictive legal and policy framework in driving the high levels of unsafe abortion and limiting access to [...]
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Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
