Myths and Realities: Debunking USAID’s Analysis of the Global Gag Rule
The global gag rule, or ",Mexico City Policy,", restricts foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive U.S. family planning assistance from advocating for or providing abortion-related services, even with their own, non-U.S. resources. 1 A recent [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Senate’s Vote to Repeal the Global Gag Rule
The Center for Reproductive Rights calls on President Bush to sign the bill repealing the Global Gag Rule. The President has repeatedly stated his commitment to cultivating democracy abroad and should therefore, take this opportunity [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Calls on U.S. to Keep It’s Promise to Protect Reproductive Rights
United States Goes Before U.N. Human Rights Committee Geneva - Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights urged the United States to uphold the legal pledge it made under the International Covenant on Civil and Political [...]
Women’s Health Experts from Kenya and Peru Speak out on the Impact of the Global Gag Rule
New Report Documents the Gag Rule’s Devastating Effects on Unsafe Abortion in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Peru At a breakfast briefing on October 22, women's health experts from Kenya and Peru will discuss the devastating [...]
Breaking the Silence: The Global Gag Rule’s Impact on Unsafe Abortion
Executive Summary Every year, twenty million—mostly poor—women around the world are driven to unsafe abortion. More than 95% of these abortions occur in low-income countries. And every year, complications from these procedures claim the lives [...]
Letter to Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Urging Opposition to the Addition of the Global Gag Rule to HIV/AIDS Programs Dear Senator: We understand that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will soon consider legislation to increase foreign assistance for HIV/AIDS treatment and [...]
Letter to Members of the House
Urging Repeal of the Global Gag Rule and Full Funding of UNFPA Dear Member of Congress: I am writing on behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a nonprofit legal and policy advocacy organization dedicated [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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Letter from Lieutenant General Claudia J. Kennedy to Senate
Letter to Senate on Abortion Ban for Women in the Military The Honorable Olympia Snowe United States Senate 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Patty Murray United States Senate 173 Russell [...]
Comments Submitted to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Comments on the proposed State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Thomas A. Scully Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Attn: CMS–2127-P P.O. Box 8016 Baltimore, MD 21244–8016 [...]
Letter to Members of the House of Representatives
Urging Support to an Amendment which would Overturn the Ban on Privately Funded Abortions in the Military United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative: On behalf of the Center for Reproductive Rights, [...]
Letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell from Members of Congress
The Honorable Colin Powell Secretary of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20520 VIA FACSIMILE Dear Mr. Secretary, We are a short time away from the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children [...]
Letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell from a Coalition of NGOs
The Honorable Colin Powell United States Secretary of State Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20520 Facsimile: 202-647-2283 RE: UNITED STATES POSITION AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPECIAL SESSION ON CHILDREN [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
