Latest News

Advanced Search
Mapping Abortion Rights Worldwide card link

Mapping Abortion Rights Worldwide

The Center for Reproductive Rights unveils our fully updated, interactive World's Abortion Laws Map Tonight, the fully revised and updated World's Abortion Laws Map—the definitive record of the legal status of abortion in countries around [...]

Abortion,Around the World,News

Catalyzing Global Change for Women and Girls

Creating progress that can drive true gender equality for women and girls worldwide will be center stage at this week’s global international conference on the health and wellbeing of women and girls: Women Deliver officially [...]

Around the World,News

Demanding Accountability

Latin America is the only region in the world in which the pregnancy rate for girls under 15 years of age is rising. Most of these pregnancies are the result of rape, frequently by family [...]

Abortion,Latin America & Caribbean, Accountability Bodies,At the United Nations, Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,News

Strong Voices for Our Rights

Sponsors and supporters of the Women’s Health Protection Act explain why WHPA now At the reintroduction of the Women’s Health Protection Act on May 23, a powerful lineup of government representatives and leaders in the [...]

Abortion,United States,Engaging Policymakers,News

Members of House and Senate Make Bold Move to Protect Abortion Access

Congress Makes Bold Move to Protect Abortion Access Led by lead sponsors Rep Judy Chu (D-CA) and Sen Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the Women's Health Protection Act is re-introduced, to protect equal abortion access, for everyone [...]

Abortion,United States,Engaging Policymakers,News
Unequal Access to Maternal Health Care in the EU card link

Unequal Access to Maternal Health Care in the EU

Access to quality maternal health care is a human right to which all women and girls are entitled. Regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, or any other social, economic or political affiliation, all pregnant persons are [...]

Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,Europe,Reporting on Rights,News

Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador

Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador El Salvador's draconian abortion ban has led over 40 women to decades-long prison sentences for suffering obstetric emergencies. They were separated from their families, and [...]

News

Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador

Free and Reunited: The Women Behind Bars in El Salvador

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care,News

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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

Kansas Supreme Court Says State Constitution Protects Abortion

Today, the Kansas Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Hodes & Nauser MDs, P.A., et al. v. Schmidt & Howe, affirming that the state’s constitution protects Kansas women’s right to safe and legal abortion.  [...]

Abortion,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers,News

Standing up Against Abortion Opposition in Nairobi

The Center for Reproductive Rights and ally organizations take a petition to the government demanding anti-abortion billboards come down UPDATE: SUCCESS! The billboards came down in May. The Nairobi County Government responded to our request, [...]

Abortion, Anti-Choice Harassment, Biased Information, Censorship,Africa, Kenya,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,News

It’s time to end judicial authorization for abortion in India

It’s time to end judicial authorization for abortion in India Meera* was only 10 years old when she became pregnant after being raped. Meera did not know she was pregnant, and her family only realized [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,Asia, India,Reporting on Rights,News

Stop the Trump Administration from Erasing Women

New bill demands Department of State stop neglecting vital data on reproductive health care from its annual report on global human rights The Trump administration has made no secret of its commitment to erasing women [...]

Abortion, Biased Information, Censorship,United States,In the Courts, Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA), In Washington D.C.,News

Peru Apologizes to K.L.

18 years after K.L. was denied an abortion and forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term, Peru offers her an official apology. K.L. was 17 years old and 14 weeks pregnant when she found [...]

Abortion,Latin America & Caribbean, Peru,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,News

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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