Joint Statement and Call to Action for the Philippine Congress to Examine the Harmful Impact of the Total Criminal Ban on Abortion
Joint Statement for the Philippine Congress to Examine the Harmful Impact of the Total Criminal Ban on Abortion Joint Statement for the Philippine Congress to Examine the Harmful Impact of the Total Criminal Ban on [...]
U.S.-born Girls Face “Vacation Cutting”
U.S.-born Girls Face “Vacation Cutting” The practice of genital mutilation, while deeply embedded in a number of African and Middle Eastern cultures, has been banned in the United States for almost 20 years. However, as [...]
U.S. Backslides on Maternal Deaths
U.S. Backslides on Maternal Deaths Each year, International NGO Save the Children releases a report ranking the wellbeing of mothers and children in 178 countries around the world. An article at PBS Newshour breaks down [...]
Nigerian Kidnappings: Where’s the U.S.?
Nigerian Kidnappings: Where’s the U.S.? A provocative blog post at Ms. Magazine this week addresses some tough questions around the abduction and sexual enslavement of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls. Why hasn’t there been more meaningful coverage in the U.S. press? [...]
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Calls for Expanded Access to Safe, Legal Reproductive Health Care
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Calls for Expanded Access to Safe, Legal Reproductive Health Care Municipal resolution declares February “Women, Girls, and Transgender Women’s Health Month,” calls for passage of federal Women’s Health Protection Act [...]
New Health and Human Rights Teaching Resource
New Health and Human Rights Teaching Resource We are very excited to report the launch of the Health and Human Rights Syllabus Database. Compiled by the Program on Global Health &, Human Rights, Institute for Global [...]
ICPD and Human Rights: 20 Years of Advancing Reproductive Rights though UN Treaty Bodies and Legal Reform
The ICPD and Human Rights fact sheets examine the progress states have made over the past twenty years fulfilling the commitments made in the ICPD Programme of Action. They highlight the extensive developments in international [...]
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Going on Offense
Going on Offense On Capitol Hill, in the space of just a few hours, it's possible to witness some of the ugliest hostility toward women's reproductive rights in close proximity to the inspired conviction of [...]
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, et al. v. State of Alaska
(REVISED 5.23.2018) In 2007, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that a law challenged by the Center for Reproductive Rights, which would have required minors under 17 to have parental consent or a court order to [...]
ACS Reproductive Rights and Justice Award
ACS Reproductive Rights and Justice Award On June 13, 2013, the Center for Reproductive Rights, in partnership with the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), presented the first annual ACS Reproductive Rights and [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Releases New Celebrity PSA and Letter to President Obama Urging Support for ‘Draw the Line’ Campaign
CRR Releases New Celebrity PSA and Letter to President Obama Urging Support for ‘Draw the Line' (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights today released a new PSA featuring celebrity supporters Stanley Tucci (“The Hunger [...]
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest v. State of Alaska: Alaska Supreme Court Appeal Brief
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest v. State of Alaska: Alaska Supreme Court Appeal Brief
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.