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These women say they had miscarriages. Now they’re in jail for abortion.

CBS News covers the Center's efforts to help women who have been imprisoned in El Salvador after being accused of having had abortions even though they claim to have miscarried. El Salvador has a total [...]

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Statement on COVID and SRHR

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Americas’ human rights court hears deadly sexual violence case from Ecuador

An Ecuadorian mother who said her 16-year-old daughter killed herself after being sexually abused by staff in school took her 18-year battle for justice to the top Americas court on Tuesday in the region’s first [...]

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Joint Declaration: Stop the “Law for the Protection of Life and Family” Bill in Guatemala

Defenders of sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America and the Caribbean reject Bill No. 5272, also known as the “Law for the Protection of Life and Family” that seeks to restrict the right to abortion in Guatemala [...]

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Letter to the President of the El Salvador Assembly

 

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Carta a Presidente Sánchez Cerén ESP

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Letter to President Sanchez Cerén

 

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Error de la justicia: El impacto de la prohibición total del aborto en El Salvador

Error de la justicia: El impacto de la prohibición total del aborto en El Salvador

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U.S. State Department Letter Re: El Salvador’s Las 17

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Open statement on Zika virus

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UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (U.N. CRC) Concluding Observations for Peru

   

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Aborto y Derechos Reproductivos en América Latina: Implicaciones para la Democracia

Les compartimos la nueva publicación del Centro de Derechos Reproductivos producido en conjunto con el Inter-American Dialogue con quienes organizamos el Simposio sobre Derechos Reproductivos en América Latina en la ciudad de Washington, DC el [...]

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Derecho a la salud de las mujeres embarazadas

Ana y Aurora son dos mujeres que quedaron embarazadas, a cuyos fetos se les diagnosticaron malformaciones severas incompatibles con la vida extrauterina. Ambas fueron obligadas a mantener un embarazo inviable y sufrir las numerosas secuelas [...]

Maternal Health,Latin America & Caribbean,Documents

Reproductive rights are human rights.

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