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Center’s Shadow Letter to the Human Rights Committee on The Republic of Moldova

In October 2011 the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Moldovan Institute for Human Rights (IDOM) submitted a letter to the Country Report Task Forces of the Human Rights Committee. The objective was to encourage [...]

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Organizations Respond to U.N. Special Rapporteur’s Report

Human rights, women’s rights and health organizations released a signed letter this week in support of the report by the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, which was presented on October [...]

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Haciendo de los derechos una realidad: Resumen

El Centro ha terminado la versión en español de su serie de publicaciones, Haciendo de los Derechos una Realidad. Publicado por la primera vez en inglés en 2002, Haciendo de los Derechos una Realidad examina [...]

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Abortion Worldwide: Seventeen Years of Reform

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Brief in Support of Motion for Temporary Injunction: Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice v. Cline

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Complaint: Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, et al. v. Terry Cline

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Preliminary Injunction: Stuart et al v. Huff Memorandum Opinion and Order

On September 29, 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights challenged a newly enacted North Carolina law which prohibits a woman from getting an abortion until four hours after her physician performs an ultrasound, places the [...]

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Amicus Brief: Gauer and Others v. France

In August 2011, the Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners filed an amicus brief to the European Court of Human Rights in support of Joëlle Gauer and Others —five women with mental disabilities in [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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Safe and Legal Abortion is a Woman’s Human Right

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Complaint: Stuart et al v. Huff

The Center is challenging a newly enacted North Carolina law which prohibits a woman from getting an abortion until four hours after her physician performs an ultrasound, places the ultrasound images in her view, and [...]

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Progressive groups warn Congress off Policy Riders for 2012 budget vote

September 21, 2011     Dear Senator or Representative, The undersigned organizations, on behalf of our millions of members and supporters, write today to express our strong opposition to the addition of policy riders in [...]

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The Center’s Comments to the Polish Parliament on a Proposal to Ban Abortion

The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning submitted these comments to members of the Polish Parliament with respect to the bill “On the Protection of Human Life from [...]

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Order: Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey

IT IS ORDERED that Defendants are ENJOINED from penalizing a physician, criminally or otherwise, under the Act1 when multiple physicians perform an abortion, and any one of those physicians, or a combination of them, comply [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.