The Center for Reproductive Rights commemorates the 15 year anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), celebrating advancements for women’s human rights and highlighting the ICPD’s role in promoting recognition of reproductive rights as human rights. The Center calls upon governments worldwide to strengthen legal protections for women’s reproductive rights, both by […]
The Human Rights Council at its 11th regular session adopted a landmark resolution on “Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights.” In this resolution, governments express grave concern for the unacceptably high rates of maternal mortality and morbidity, acknowledge that this is a human rights issue, and commit to enhance their efforts at the […]
As part of our efforts for the approval of the Human Rights Resolution, “Preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity and Human Rights,” that was adopted at the 11th session of the Human Rights Council, the Center hosted, together with other organizations, an event at the HRC featuring an expert panel to discuss maternal mortality and human […]
Today, the United States was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the first time. We urge the U.S. to take this opportunity to re-establish itself as a champion for women’s reproductive health at the UN and around the world. The Human Rights Council is the UN’s principal political human rights body, where […]
The Center has completed updating one of its signature publications, Bringing Rights to Bear. Initially published in 2002, Bringing Rights to Bear takes a long, hard look at the thousands of comments, statements, and recommendations produced by UN treaty-monitoring bodies, analyzing their potential for advancing reproductive rights. Our 2008 update, produced as a series of […]
Shadow Report: United States_Human Rights Committee_2006_English https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/US-HR-Comittee-2006.pdf
USHRN CERD Shadow Report Chapter on Health https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/USHRN-Shadow-Report-Health-Ch-19.pdf
Concluding Observations: Brazil_CEDAW_2007_English https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/XSL_CO.Brazil2007.pdf
Geneva — As the United Nations convenes its first “peer review” of member countries’ human rights records, the Center for Reproductive Rights, along with ten other organizations from around the world, is expressing concern that issues surrounding women’s reproductive rights have been largely absent from the process. The new mechanism, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), […]
UN Human Rights Committee Establishes Right to Abortion as a Human Right (Updated 3.18.21) The Center for Reproductive Rights persuaded the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) to recognize that women have a human right to access safe and legal abortion. In a ruling that has been cited extensively as precedent in other national-level court decisions on abortion access, the UNHRC established that denying access to legal abortion violates the International Covenant on […]