Center for Reproductive Rights Opens New Regional Office in Colombia
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced the opening of its new regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogotá, Colombia. The Center has worked in the region for fifteen years, [...]
RH Reality Check: Are Women’s Rights on Obama’s Agenda in Latin America?
By Luisa Cabal and Lilian Sepúlveda For all of President Barack Obama's pledges that he stands for universal human rights, the fundamental rights of women are likely to be left off the table when he [...]
CRR in the Field: Mónica Arango Olaya
Since 1992, the Center's innovative legal work has fundamentally transformed the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and has already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries. CRR in the Field is [...]
Statement to ECOSOC: Maternal Mortality and the MDGs
The approach of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit in September provides a key opportunity for states and the international community to reassess their progress and confront challenges to achieving the MDGs. The Center for [...]
On this International Day of Action for Women’s Health, Center Calls on Brazil to Defeat Unprecedented Fetal Rights Bill
(PRESS STATEMENT) As the world commemorates International Day of Action for Women’s Health today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, a global human rights organization, called on the Congress to defeat a draft bill that grants [...]
Decline in Maternal Mortality Welcome, but Suffering Persists
By Ximena Andión Ibañez, International Advocacy Director An article in the recent Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, announced a global decrease in maternal deaths from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The Center [...]
Shadow Letters Bring Reproductive Rights to Light
The Center celebrated the recent concluding observations on Ecuador, Croatia and Moldova from the U.N. Human Rights Committee, which reaffirm the obligation of these states to guarantee reproductive rights. The Committee's concluding observations responded directly [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Center Submission for the Human Rights Committee’s Review of Croatia (2009)
In 2009, the Center submitted a shadow letter to the Human Rights Committee on the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Croatia. The shadow letter discussed the state’s systematic failure to provide comprehensive sexual [...]
Human Rights Committee Reviews Croatia
In March and September of 2009, the Center for Reproductive Rights, together with the Center for Education, Counseling and Research (CESI), and Interights, submitted shadow letters on Croatia to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, [...]
Croatia is Condemned by European Social Rights Body for Homophobic School Text Books
(PRESS RELEASE) The European Committee of Social Rights, which monitors state compliance with the European Social Charter, has found that Croatia's limited curriculum covering sex education discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. The Committee [...]
Shadow Letter to CESCR on Brazil (2009)
The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for its review of Brazil during its 42nd Session in May 2009. The letter discusses the issue [...]
European Committee of Social Rights Decision: Interights v. Croatia
The case challenged the sexual education curriculums in Croatia that are religious and ideology-based models. Such programs, while claiming to provide youth with tools to lead healthier and more moral lives, have failed to provide [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
