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Statement from Lourdes Rivera, Senior Vice President of U.S. Programs at the Center for Reproductive Rights, on President Biden’s Proclamation on Black Maternal Health Week in the U.S.
Today, President Joe Biden took a momentous step and brought national awareness to the U.S. maternal health crisis disproportionately impacting Black mothers by signing a proclamation recognizing April 11 through April 17, 2021 as Black Maternal Health Week. The proclamation [...]
Statement on the Release of the U.S. State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, on the release of the U.S. State Department’s 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Today, Secretary of State Blinken affirmed what [...]
Statement on India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy Amendment
This week, India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2020 (‘MTP Bill’) was introduced and passed by the Upper House of the Parliament. The Bill amends the 50-year-old MTP Act, 1971, which sets the conditions, [...]
Statement on the Confirmation of Xavier Becerra for Secretary of Health and Human Services
Statement from Nancy Northup, President and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, on the Confirmation of Xavier Becerra for Secretary of Health and Human Services: Attorney General Becerra brings to HHS a deep [...]
Honduras Fails to Meet its International Human Rights Obligations
Today, lawmakers in Honduras ratified an amendment that incorporates the total prohibition of abortion into article 67 of their Constitution. Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights said: “Against the global [...]
CEO Nancy Northup’s Statement on President Biden’s Executive Order
(New York) – Today, President Joe Biden issued an executive order repealing the Global Gag Rule that had been re-issued and greatly expanded during the Trump Administration; beginning the repeal of the Title X rule; [...]
Honduras incumple sus obligaciones internacionales en materia de derechos humanos
Hoy el Congreso de Honduras ha ratificado una reforma que incorpora la prohibición absoluta del aborto en el artículo 67 de su Constitución. Nancy Northup, presidenta y directora general del Centro de Derechos Reproductivos dijo: [...]
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