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Parade: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Meryl Streep & More Team Up for New PSA

Parade: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Meryl Streep & More Team Up for New PSA By Mary Margaret "Celebrities including Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Meryl Streep, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, and Lisa Kudrow have teamed up [...]

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Us Weekly: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and Amy Poehler Fight for Reproductive Rights in PSA

Us Weekly: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and Amy Poehler Fight for Reproductive Rights in PSA "Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and Amy Poehler are ready to draw the line. In an effort to bring attention to [...]

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RH Reality Check: It’s Time to Draw the Line on Attacks Against Reproductive Freedom

RH Reality Check: It's Time to Draw the Line! By Nancy Northup As we approach the 40th anniversary of the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, it has never been clearer what is [...]

Abortion, Adolescent SRHR, Censorship, Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Maternal Health,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA), In Washington D.C.,Center in the Spotlight

Jezebel: Celebrities Have Had it Up to Here With This Anti-Woman Crap

Jezebel: Celebrities Have Had it Up to Here With This Anti-Woman Crap By Erin Gloria Ryan "Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights has launched a star-heavy initiative called Draw the Line, which controversially asserts that [...]

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Guardian: Sonia Tábora and the risks of being poor and pregnant in El Salvador

Guardian: The risks of being poor and pregnant in El Salvador By Vickie Knox In the middle of the night of 19 February 2005, 20-year-old Sonia Tábora went into premature labour at seven months, alone, [...]

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Bloomberg: Laws Revive ‘World Before Roe’ as Abortions Require Arduous Trek

Bloomberg: Laws Revive ‘World Before Roe’ as Abortions Require Arduous Trek By Amanda Crawford "Over the past two years, state lawmakers across the U.S. have been passing new abortion restrictions at a record pace. Dozens [...]

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CAT Committee Includes Center’s Input in List of Issues for Upcoming Philippines Review

The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Committee against Torture (CAT Committee) recommending questions to be incorporated in the List of Issues being prepared for the upcoming review of the Philippines. [...]

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Concluding Observations from UN Reveal Grave Reproductive Rights Concerns in Indonesia

In July, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) held its review of Indonesia. The Concluding Observations from the session have just been released, highlighting recommendations made by the Center in [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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RH Reality Check: Forced Pregnancy Testing: Blatant Discrimination and a Gross Violation of Human Rights

Forced Pregnancy Testing: Blatant Discrimination and a Gross Violation of Human Rights by Onyema Afulukwe, Legal Adviser for Africa at the Center for Reproductive Rights Earlier this month, news spread of a Louisiana charter school's [...]

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Slate: Rape Exceptions Don’t Work

Slate: Rape Exceptions Don't Work By Amanda Marcotte "Irin Carmon has an excellent piece at Salon decrying, in light of the Akin controversy, the entire discourse around 'rape exceptions.' Carmon points out that when rape [...]

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Baltimore Sun: City’s pregnancy center law gets new hearing

Baltimore Sun: City's pregnancy center law gets new hearing By Andrea Walker "A federal appeals court has granted a new hearing in a case challenging whether Baltimore can require faith-based pregnancy counseling centers to post [...]

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Center’s issues included in List of Issues for reviews of El Salvador and Chile by the CAT Committee

As part of its 2013 reviews of Chile and El Salvador, the Committee against Torture (CAT Committee) solicited input from civil society organizations to determine the issues that would be covered in the country revisions. [...]

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AllAfrica: Rwandan Govt Takes Critical Step in Recognizing Women’s Fundamental Human Rights

Rwandan Govt Takes Critical Step in Recognizing Women's Human Rights Affirming the importance of women's access to safe and legal abortion, the Rwandan government has lifted its reservation to Article 14(2)(c) of the African Charter [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

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