Causas Pendientes: Expediente de Manuela
Manuela, una mujer salvadoreña de bajos recursos económicos, murió de cáncer a los 33 años de edad mientras pagaba una condena de 30 años de prisión por el delito de homicidio agravado, tras haber sufrido [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Peace Corps Volunteers Speak Out Against Discriminatory Abortion Ban
Voices of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Speaking Out Against the Discriminatory Abortion Ban
The Undue Burden Module: Updated Spring 2013
To advance the understanding of reproductive rights as human rights and help law teachers bring in a comparative and international law perspective, the Center has created Course Modules for six courses that involve reproductive health: [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
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 [...]
Veto Letter to North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple: Package of Extreme Abortion Bans and Reproductive Healthcare Restrictions
Read the Center for Reproductive Rights' letter to North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple urging him to veto an entire package of extreme abortion bans and restrictions on other reproductive healthcare. These bills (HB 1456, HB [...]
Zambia Accepts Several Universal Periodic Review Recommendations Sourced to Input from the Center for Reproductive Rights
In November 2012, the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review Working Group released its recommendations on Zambia. The Center submitted a letter to the Working Group back in April 2012 detailing existing problems with reproductive [...]
Human Rights Committee Calls for Liberalizing Contraceptive and Abortion Policies in the Philippines
In early November, the Human Rights Committee issued its Concluding Observations on two harmful reproductive health policies in the Philippines: the country's criminal ban on abortion without any clear exceptions and the prohibition of funding [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
