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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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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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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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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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Oklahoma Supreme Court Blocks Two Unconstitutional Measures Designed to Severely Restrict Access to Abortion

Oklahoma Supreme Court Blocks Two Unconstitutional Measures Designed to Severely Restrict Access to Abortion Oklahoma’s clinic shutdown law, restrictions on medication abortion blocked while litigation continues (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Oklahoma Supreme Court blocked two [...]

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Oklahoma Women At Risk of Losing Access to Non-Surgical Abortion on November 1

Oklahoma Women At Risk of Losing Access to Non-Surgical Abortion on November 1 District court fails to block unconstitutional law restricting medication abortion from taking effect. Center for Reproductive Rights plans immediate appeal to state [...]

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North Dakota’s Highest Court Upholds Unconstitutional Restrictions on Medication Abortion

North Dakota’s Highest Court Upholds Unconstitutional Restrictions on Medication Abortion Court ignores threats to women’s health and safety (PRESS RELEASE) North Dakota’s law severely restricting medication abortion—a non-surgical method of ending a pregnancy in its [...]

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Oklahoma Judge Greenlights Unconstitutional Clinic Shutdown Law

Oklahoma Judge Greenlights Unconstitutional Clinic Shutdown Law State court fails to block unconstitutional restrictions targeting abortion providers, Center for Reproductive Rights plans immediate appeal to state Supreme Court (PRESS RELEASE) A state district court judge [...]

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Texas Clinics Closed by Fifth Circuit Can Reopen in Light of Supreme Court Ruling

Texas Clinics Closed by Fifth Circuit Can Reopen in Light of Supreme Court Ruling Nation’s Highest Court Reinstates Injunction Blocking Texas Law that Shuttered Nearly All Abortion Clinics in the State (PRESS RELEASE) In a [...]

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Full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Consider Texas Law Shuttering Abortion Clinics Statewide, Leaving Women without Safe, Legal Health Care Options

Full 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Consider Texas Law Shuttering Abortion Clinics Statewide Women’s Health Care Providers, Advocates Considering Options as Law Remains in Effect (PRESS RELEASE) The full U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court

Texas Health Care Providers Take Fight for Abortion Access to U.S. Supreme Court Texas women facing devastating loss of constitutionally protected health care (PRESS RELEASE) Following a decision Thursday from the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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