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Perú Ends Criminal Investigation into Mass Forced Sterilizations
Perú Ends Criminal Investigation into Mass Forced Sterilizations Center for Reproductive Rights calls out state for failing to comply with its obligations before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (PRESS RELEASE) Peruvian prosecutors have closed [...]
Access to EC in Latin America Takes Center Stage at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Access to EC in Latin America Takes Center Stage at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Center for Reproductive Rights Participates In Public Hearing Addressing Restrictions on Emergency Contraception at the 149th Period of Sessions [...]
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, [...]
In Front of the UN, Peru Recognizes Need to Guarantee Certain Reproductive Rights
In the last months of 2012, two human rights bodies issued their findings on Peru, including several issues that have an impact on the country's reproductive rights landscape. In both instances, the Center for Reproductive [...]
Concluding Observations: Peru_CEDAW_1998_English
Concluding Observations: Peru_CEDAW_1998_English
Concluding Observations: Peru_Human Rights Committee_2000_Spanish
Concluding Observations: Peru_Human Rights Committee_2000_Spanish
Concluding Observations: Peru_Human Rights Committee_2000_English
Concluding Observations: Peru_Human Rights Committee_2000_English
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Senate’s Vote to Repeal the Global Gag Rule
The Center for Reproductive Rights calls on President Bush to sign the bill repealing the Global Gag Rule. The President has repeatedly stated his commitment to cultivating democracy abroad and should therefore, take this opportunity [...]
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UN Human Rights Committee Makes Landmark Decision Establishing Women’s Right to Access to Legal Abortion
Woman Forced to Carry Fatally Impaired Fetus to Term Wins Case New York, NY-Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) decided its first abortion case, KL v. Peru. The decision establishes that denying access [...]
Women’s Health Experts from Kenya and Peru Speak out on the Impact of the Global Gag Rule
New Report Documents the Gag Rule’s Devastating Effects on Unsafe Abortion in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Peru At a breakfast briefing on October 22, women's health experts from Kenya and Peru will discuss the devastating [...]
International Human Rights Settlement Expected to Improve Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Care in Peru
Policy Changes Come After Coerced Sterilization Case that Ended in Death Yesterday, the government of Peru signed an agreement before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that should bring about sweeping changes in Peru's [...]
Bush Administration Urged to Implement HIV/AIDS Initiative without Strings Attached
Statement of Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights "Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $15 billion HIV/AIDS plan aimed at combating the AIDS pandemic internationally over the next five years. We applaud [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
