Sin Justicia
Bajo la prohibición absoluta del aborto en El Salvador, 17 mujeres han sido injustamente criminalizadas y encarceladas. Con una de las restricciones más extremas del mundo, El Salvador prohíbe que las mujeres acceden un aborto [...]
Cinco Estados recomiendan al Estado de Costa Rica garantizar el acceso a los servicios de salud reproductiva sin discriminación y despenalizar el aborto en los casos de violación ante las Naciones Unidas
Cinco Estados recomiendan al Estado de Costa Rica garantizar el acceso a los servicios de salud reproductiva El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos junto con la organización aliada local, “Grupo a Favor del In Vitro”, presentaron [...]
U.N. Committee Denounces Romania for Denying Women Reproductive Health Care
U.N. Committee Denounces Romania for Denying Women Reproductive Health Care (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (U.N. CESCR) has called on the Romanian government to revise its laws and policies [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Reaffirms Reproductive Rights Are Central to Development
United Nations Secretary-General Reaffirms Reproductive Rights Are Central to Development U.N. Releases Post-2015 Development Agenda Report Calling on Governments to Fulfill Human Rights Obligations (PRESS RELEASE) In a report that will serve as a guidepost [...]
LA Times Op-Ed: Anti-Choice TRAP Laws Exposed
LA Times Op-Ed: Anti-Choice TRAP Laws Exposed Anti-choice state legislation has been alarmingly successful at limiting abortion access across the country over the last few years, writes CUNY Law Professor Caitlin Borgmann in an incisive [...]
U.N. Committee Calls On Nepal to Eradicate Child Marriage and Ensure Women’s Access to Safe Abortion Services
U.N. Committee Calls On Nepal to Eradicate Child Marriage and Ensure Women’s Access to Safe Abortion Services (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (U.N. CESCR) this week denounced the Nepal [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee Court’s decision in Young v. UPS will have a significant impact on millions of working women and their families (PRESS RELEASE) Today the U.S. Supreme [...]
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Spotlight on India Sterilization “Camps”
Spotlight on India Sterilization “Camps” A recent Wall Street Journal article takes a look at some of the big-picture issues around the recent tragedy in Bilaspur, India, where 13 women died and dozens of others [...]
Imprisoned in Malaysia After Legal Abortion
Imprisoned in Malaysia After Legal Abortion UPDATE: Following her conviction in November 2014, Nirmala’s case was appealed to the Penang High Court earlier this month. The judge determined that because she was not provided adequate [...]
NAMHHR v. Chhattisgarh
The Asia program’s new fact sheet features a groundbreaking reproductive rights case, NAMHHR v. Chhattisgarh, which was filed before the High Court of Chhattisgarh in June 2014 by the National Alliance for Maternal Health and [...]
Ending Child Marriage
Ending Child Marriage A first-ever international appeal aims to end child marriage in South Asia “I was turned into someone’s wife before I knew what it meant to me,” remembers Rahar Maya Biswokarma, a Nepalese [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
