Latest News
Nigeria’s Federal High Court Strikes Out Civil Society Organization’s Case of a Woman Who Was Illegally Detained and Died During Confinement
(PRESS RELEASE) The family of a woman who was illegally detained for the inability to clear her medical bill and denied emergency services leading to her death, yesterday had their case dismissed by the Federal [...]
Kenya’s High Court Rules in Favor of Woman Physically Abused During Delivery
Kenya’s High Court Rules in Favor of Woman Physically Abused During Delivery (PRESS RELEASE) A pregnant woman who was unlawfully physically and verbally abused by hospital staff and deliberately left to deliver on the floor, [...]
The Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Arrest of Pregnant Schoolgirls in Tanzania
The Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Arrest of Pregnant Schoolgirls in Tanzania The Center for Reproductive Rights Denounces Arrest of Pregnant Schoolgirls in Tanzania (PRESS RELEASE) Five schoolgirls who became pregnant and their parents were [...]
Nurse Acquitted in a Pregnancy Complications Case
(PRESS RELEASE) Today the Court of Appeal of Kenya acquitted Jackson Tali, a registered nurse who was arrested and sentenced to death on murder charges. Mr. Tali, who has been in custody at the G.K [...]
Legal Grounds III: Reproductive and Sexual Rights in Sub-Saharan African Courts
Reproductive and sexual rights, which are guaranteed in constitutions and in international and regional human rights treaties, have no impact if they are not recognized and enforced by national-level courts. Legal Grounds: Sexual and Reproductive [...]
New Report Exposes Impact of Uganda’s Abortion Law Through Personal Stories
(PRESS RELEASE) Due to the unclear abortion law in Uganda, women and adolescents continue seeking unsafe abortions and are vilified by their families and communities—even the doctors and health workers who provide legal post-abortion care [...]
Facing Uganda’s Law on Abortion
Maternal mortality continues to be a formidable factor in the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Uganda. Indeed 343 women out of every 100,000 women die from preventable pregnancy-related complications each [...]
Facing Uganda’s Law on Abortion: Experiences from Women and Service Providers
Download document here.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
U.N. Human Rights Expert Condemns Broad Range of Reproductive Rights Violations as Torture
U.N. Human Rights Expert Condemns Broad Range of Reproductive Rights Violations as Torture (PRESS RELEASE) Child marriage, forced pregnancy testing in schools, abuse of women seeking maternal health services and restrictive abortion laws can amount [...]
African Commission Calls on Uganda to Ensure The Right to Legal Abortion and Access to Reproductive Health Services
African Commission Calls on Uganda to Ensure The Right to Legal Abortion and Access to Reproductive Health Services (PRESS RELEASE) The government of Uganda should stop impeding access to medical abortion and reproductive health services, [...]
U.N. Committee: Kenya Should Decriminalize Abortion in All Circumstances, Ensure Reproductive Health Services for Adolescents
U.N. Committee: Kenya Should Decriminalize Abortion in All Circumstances, Ensure Reproductive Health Services for Teens (PRESS RELEASE) The government of Kenya should decriminalize abortion in all circumstances and ensure adolescents have access to the full [...]
Case of Illegal Detention and Death of Woman at Hospital Heads to High Court of Nigeria
Case of Illegal Detention and Death of Woman at Hospital Heads to High Court of Nigeria (PRESS RELEASE) A Nigerian hospital illegally detained a woman who could not pay for the maternal health services she [...]
U.N. Committee: Malawi Should Expand Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, Address Reproductive Rights Violations
U.N. Committee: Malawi Should Expand Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, Address Reproductive Rights Violations (PRESS RELEASE) The government of Malawi should implement laws and policies to expand access to safe and legal abortion, as [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
