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​Dominican Republic Reinforces Harmful Abortion Ban With New Penal Code

​Dominican Republic Reinforces Harmful Abortion Ban With New Penal Code (PRESS RELEASE) Despite more than 90,000 unsafe abortions occurring in the Dominican Republic each year and decades of international human rights law establishing a woman’s [...]

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Administrative Action on Immigration Provides Relief to Millions

Administrative Action on Immigration Provides Relief to Millions The Crucial Next Step: Access to Health Care for Immigrant Women and Families (PRESS RELEASE) Last night’s executive action on immigration by President Barack Obama will protect [...]

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Full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Rehear Mississippi Law Designed to Close Last Abortion Clinic

Full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Rehear Mississippi Law Designed to Close Last Abortion Clinic Last abortion clinic in the state to remain open while legal challenge continues (PRESS RELEASE) The full U.S. [...]

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Center For Reproductive Rights Opens Geneva Office

Center For Reproductive Rights Opens Geneva Office (PRESS RELEASE) With the United Nations and human rights bodies being called upon frequently to protect women’s reproductive rights, the Center for Reproductive Rights is expanding its presence [...]

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United Nations Committee Examines U.S. Record On Torture

United Nations Committee Examines U.S. Record On Torture Center for Reproductive Rights Raises Violations of Reproductive Rights for Immigrant Women and Women of Color (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee against Torture meets in Geneva [...]

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Shadow Letter to CAT on the United States

The Center for Reproductive Rights, Women Enabled International, and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health prepared this letter to assist the Committee against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT [...]

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12 Countries Call on El Salvador to Decriminalize Abortion

12 Countries Call on El Salvador to Decriminalize Abortion (PRESS RELEASE) Twelve countries denounced the criminalization of abortion in El Salvador this week as part of the Universal Periodic Review of the country currently being [...]

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Government of Nepal Hosts Convening on Ending Child Marriage with South Asian Governments

Government of Nepal Hosts Convening on Ending Child Marriage with South Asian Governments (PRESS RELEASE) With 130 million South Asian girls expected to be forced into early marriage by 2030, the government of Nepal is [...]

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Panorama Mundial del Derecho al Aborto

Esta hoja informativa es una guía ,esencial del Mapa de Leyes sobre Aborto en el Mundo y ofrece un panorama general de la situación jurídica actual y de las tendencias legislativas globales del aborto, así [...]

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Preguntas y Respuestas: Cómo leer el mapa de las leyes sobre aborto en el mundo

Esta hoja informativa es una herramienta útil para comprender el Mapa de Leyes sobre Aborto en el Mundo. En ella, se describen las diferentes ,legislaciones ,del aborto en diferentes países ,y se establecen categorías ,que [...]

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statements on 2014 Anti-Choice Ballot Initiative Results

Center for Reproductive Rights Statements on 2014 Anti-Choice Ballot Initiative Results (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights issued the following statements on the defeat of anti-choice ballot measures in Colorado and North Dakota and [...]

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Burns v. Cline: Oklahoma Supreme Court Opinion Granting Temporary Injunction

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Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Election of Attorney General Greg Abbott to Texas Governor

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on the Election of Attorney General Greg Abbott to Texas Governor (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Center for Reproductive Rights called on Texas Governor-Elect Greg Abbott to reject the extreme and divisive [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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