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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Birth Control Benefit for Women Preserved, CRR Calls for END TO Attacks on Women’s Health

(PRESS RELEASE) The Obama Administration has committed to preserve the no-copay birth control benefit for all women under the Affordable Care Act, according to an announcement today that employees at religiously-affiliated institutions will be able [...]

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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 [...]

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