CRR Comments on ANPRM
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted comments in response to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Certain Preventative Services Under the Affordable Care Act," published in the Federal Register on March 21, 2012. [...]
Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Fourth Circuit Panel Decision
Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore: Fourth Circuit Panel Decision
Understanding the Legal and Policy Framework on Abortion in Uganda
Abortion is legal in Uganda when done to preserve the life or mental or physical health of the pregnant woman, understood to include cases of sexual violence. However, unclear and often confusing abortion laws and [...]
Civil Society Declaration for Global Fammily Planning Summit
International human rights groups are urging world leaders attending next month’s global Family Planning Summit to ensure that any effort to increase the use of contraceptives be a part of a broader strategy to improve [...]
Best Practices for Protecting Women’s Reproductive Health: Submission to U.N. Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted information to the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG), a four-year panel that is part of the U.N. Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, on best practices [...]
Center Issues Oral Statement before U.N. on Adolescents’ Reproductive Rights
This week, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development holds its 45th session. The commission monitors and evaluates the implementation of the Programme of Action, a global agreement adopted by 179 governments nearly 20 [...]
District Court Order on Permanent Injunction, Following Opinion by Fifth Circuit
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks denied the Center’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed in part and granted in part the State Defendants’ motion. Judge Sparks stated that the Fifth Circuit’s ruling had eviscerated First [...]
Fifth Circuit Opinion
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the district court’s preliminary injunction, which had blocked enforcement of key provisions of a Texas law requiring doctors to give women seeking abortions a [...]
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UN Calls on Uganda to Fulfill Human Rights Obligations
One year ago, the Center for Reproductive Rights and our partner, the Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA - Uganda), submitted a joint letter to the Human Rights Council (the Council), which was about to [...]
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding human rights abuses of incarcerated women in the U.S.
The U.S. Legal Program, together with the Rebecca Project for Human Rights and Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH), submitted a letter to Mr. Manfred Nowak, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman [...]
Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants regarding conditions of detention for immigrant women in the U.S.
The U.S. Legal Program submitted a letter to Mr. François Crépeau, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, on January 30, 2012, in response to a request for civil society consultations on the “detention [...]
Documents regarding the Obama Administration’s new women’s preventive health regulations
The Center for Reproductive Rights stands in support of the Obama Administration’s new women’s preventive health regulations, including contraception without co-pays. Thanks to this rule, millions of women across the country will soon have cost-free [...]
Causas Pendientes: Expediente de A.N.
A.N., una joven costarricense que a los 26 añ,os quedó, embarazada de un feto al que se le diagnosticó, una malformació,n severa incompatible con la vida extrauterina que le representaba una amenaza a su vida [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.