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Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, et al. v. Terry Cline, et al.
This litigation challenges a law that would impose severe restrictions on physicians’ ability to provide medical care to women seeking pregnancy terminations that serve no legitimate purpose and run afoul of all available medical evidence. [...]
In the Name of Alyne: A Historic Human Rights Victory
Alyne da Silva Pimentel would have been 37 years old today if Brazil’s government had honored its responsibility to protect her fundamental human rights. Instead, because she was poor and Afro-Brazilian, she died in 2002 [...]
Centre for Health and Resource Management v. State of Bihar and Others (2011)
CHARM v. State of Bihar and Others is a public interest litigation petition filed in March 2011 by the Center’s partner in India, Human Rights Law Network. It seeks legal accountability from the state government [...]
Delhi High Court Continues to Stand Up for Pregnant Women
For the second time in less than a year, the Delhi High Court in India has ordered the local state government to ensure that every pregnant woman has access to quality maternity care. Highlighting the [...]
Decline in Maternal Mortality Welcome, but Suffering Persists
By Ximena Andión Ibañez, International Advocacy Director An article in the recent Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, announced a global decrease in maternal deaths from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The Center [...]
Centre for Health and Resource Management v. The State of Bihar & Others (2009)
Attorneys from HRLN conducted a fact-finding mission in 2010 that led to the subsequent withdrawal of the case in favor of refiling based on fresh evidence documenting reproductive rights violations in Bihar. For more information [...]
Alyne da Silva Pimentel v. Brazil (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women)
UN Committee Establishes States’ Obligation to Address Maternal Mortality (Updated 3.18.21) In the first-ever maternal mortality case decided by an international human rights body, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women [...]
Rio Family Takes on Brazil Government for Death of Pregnant Daughter
Center for Reproductive Rights and ADVOCACI file Petition with United Nations for Human Rights Violations Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Citizens' Advocacy for Human Rights (ADVOCACI) filed a case in the United Nations [...]
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Reproductive rights are human rights.
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