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Defending Rights & Saving Lives: 2010 Accomplishments
No woman should have to risk her life because she cannot get the essential reproductive care she deserves. This tenet is the cornerstone of the Center for Reproductive Rights work. Looking back at 2010, the [...]
In Harm’s Way: Download the Report
Unsafe abortion claims the lives of thousands of Kenyan women each year. Their deaths are entirely - and easily - preventable. Yet the Kenyan government has done little to address the problem. Learn more about [...]
In Harm’s Way: Conclusions in Brief
As this report demonstrates, when access to safe and legal abortion is limited, women resort to unsafe abortion, with devastating consequences for their health, lives, and families. This report documents these consequences in Kenya, highlighting [...]
In Harm’s Way: The Impact of Kenya’s Restrictive Abortion Law
Recommendations to the Government of Kenya / to the Executive Branch Publicly acknowledge the importance of reducing unsafe abortion in order to meet Kenya’s obligations under the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the goal to reduce [...]
In Harm’s Way: Grace’s Story
In Harm's Way: The Impact of Kenya's Restrictive Abortion Law Grace's Story: Trapped by Poverty Grace was twelve when a stranger raped her in her rural village and left her pregnant. She gave birth to [...]
In Harm’s Way: Rosemary’s Story
In Harm’s Way: The Impact of Kenya’s Restrictive Abortion Law Rosemary's Story: Living with Stigma Rosemary, a young woman, was brutally raped and then genitally mutilated by two men in Nairobi. In addition to leaving [...]
In Harm’s Way: Executive Summary
"I have seen so much misery at the Kenyatta National Hospital . . . where women with abortion-related problems have died and others lost uteruses. There is no doubt the existing laws are colonial and [...]
Rights of HIV+ Women in Kenya
Women living with HIV in Kenya who seek medical care suffer multiple human rights violations and encounter daunting barriers to quality healthcare. The Center will highlight findings from its new report At Risk: Rights Violations [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
At Risk: Rights Violations of HIV-Positive Women in Kenyan Health Facilities
Women living with HIV in Kenya who seek medical care suffer multiple human rights violations and encounter daunting barriers to quality healthcare. The Center will highlight findings from its new report At Risk: Rights Violations [...]
Linking HIV and Reproductive Rights
The Center Spotlights Reproductive Rights at the XVII International AIDS Conference Human rights, including reproductive rights, must be at the center of the fight against HIV/AIDS. The Center for Reproductive Rights will be taking that [...]
Failure to Deliver: Violations of Women’s Human Rights in Kenyan Health Facilities
Providing women with affordable, accessible, and safe health services is a key obligation of the government of Kenya. However, as a new report produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Federation of Women [...]
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 [...]
Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives Anglophone Africa
Reproductive rights are internationally recognized as critical both to advancing women's human rights and to promoting development. Governments from all over the world have, in recent years, both acknowledged and pledged to advance reproductive rights [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
