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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee Court’s decision in Young v. UPS will have a significant impact on millions of working women and their families (PRESS RELEASE) Today the U.S. Supreme [...]
Spotlight on India Sterilization “Camps”
Spotlight on India Sterilization “Camps” A recent Wall Street Journal article takes a look at some of the big-picture issues around the recent tragedy in Bilaspur, India, where 13 women died and dozens of others [...]
Imprisoned in Malaysia After Legal Abortion
Imprisoned in Malaysia After Legal Abortion UPDATE: Following her conviction in November 2014, Nirmala’s case was appealed to the Penang High Court earlier this month. The judge determined that because she was not provided adequate [...]
Ending Child Marriage
Ending Child Marriage A first-ever international appeal aims to end child marriage in South Asia “I was turned into someone’s wife before I knew what it meant to me,” remembers Rahar Maya Biswokarma, a Nepalese [...]
A Global Partnership
A Global Partnership Our new Geneva office is making reproductive rights a reality at the UN and worldwide. The Center for Reproductive Rights works with the UN and civil society organizations at the forefront of [...]
No Health Care for New Class of Immigrants
No Health Care for New Class of Immigrants A recent piece in the New York Times takes a look at the scope of President Obama’s bold Executive Order on immigration, which promises to shield up [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Warning: Pregnancy May Be Harmful to Your Civil Rights
Warning: Pregnancy May Be Harmful to Your Civil Rights “At no point in her pregnancy should a woman lose her civil and human rights,” assert the authors of a recent op-ed in the New York [...]
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 [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.