Regressive Anti-Equality Threats to SRHR in Europe
In recent years there have been repeated attempts to roll back legal and policy protections for gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights in parts of Europe. In a number of different countries, [...]
Inequality and Discrimination in Maternal Health in Europe
The Center for Reproductive Rights works with human rights defenders and civil society organizations across the region to address the entrenched discrimination and inequalities faced by marginalized groups in Europe in the sphere of sexual [...]
Issue Spotlight: Adolescent SRHR
The Center works around the world to guarantee adolescents the full exercise of their SRHR, including their rights to make informed decisions about their sexuality and reproduction and to access sexual and reproductive health services.
High Court of Malawi Clarifies Law on Abortion
BLANTYRE, 06.24.2021 - (Press Release): The Malawi High Court has reaffirmed the statutory protections for legal abortion under narrow circumstances. In its ruling, the court reiterated that despite the existing legal restrictions on access to [...]
Center’s Creative Council Marks Reintroduction of the Women’s Health Protection Act in New Video
Members of the Center for Reproductive Rights Creative Council--comprised of individuals from the arts, entertainment, fashion, media and other industries who raise awareness of the Center’s work--created this video to mark the reintroduction of the [...]
2021 Poll: A Solid Majority of Voters Support the Women’s Health Protection Act
New polling, conducted by Hart Research Associates, shows that a solid majority of U.S. voters support the Women's Health Protection Act—a bill to protect abortion rights and access in every state. The nationally representative polling, conducted by Hart [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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Civil society request to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU to take action on the deteriorating situation in Poland
The Center for Reproductive Rights joined over 200 European and international civil society organizations in a letter to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union calling on the Council to urgently address [...]
Advancing Abortion Law Reform in Ireland
The Center for Reproductve Rights worked for several years to support the efforts of women and civil society organizations in Ireland to secure reform of Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion law. Their decades of efforts culminated [...]
European Abortion Law: A Comparative Overview
For more information and graphics, please see the Center's "European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview" fact sheet. For more than 60 years Europe has led the continuing global trend towards the liberalization of abortion laws and [...]
Conflict in Colombia
The Center is working with the transitional justice system created in Colombia after the peace agreement in 2016, in order to identify reproductive violence as a structural phenomenon of the country's local armed conflict. These [...]
Women Unjustly Imprisoned in El Salvador
The total ban on abortion in El Salvador has caused the criminalization of women who do not have access to reproductive health services. Since abortion was included as a crime in Salvadoran legislation, hundreds of [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
