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Center to Host Roundtable on Migrant Women’s Access to Maternal Health Care in the EU
Please join the Center for Reproductive Rights on May 5 at 10:00 CEST (Central European Summer Time) as it hosts a virtual roundtable on the barriers undocumented migrant women face when trying to access and afford maternal health care in the European Union (EU).
Civil society request to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU to take action on the deteriorating situation in Poland
The Center for Reproductive Rights joined over 200 European and international civil society organizations in a letter to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union calling on the Council to urgently address [...]
Poland Called on to Implement Long-Overdue Abortion Measures
More than a decade after Poland failed to stop creating barriers to abortion access—as required by three seminal European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rulings—the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe recently issued [...]
Advancing Abortion Law Reform in Ireland
The Center for Reproductve Rights worked for several years to support the efforts of women and civil society organizations in Ireland to secure reform of Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion law. Their decades of efforts culminated [...]
European Abortion Law: A Comparative Overview
For more information and graphics, please see the Center's "European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview" fact sheet. For more than 60 years Europe has led the continuing global trend towards the liberalization of abortion laws and [...]
Europe Update: Abortion Rights at Risk in Poland and Slovakia
Recent developments in Poland and Slovakia demonstrate the ongoing struggle to defend abortion rights against coordinated and systemic attacks on sexual and reproductive rights across the world. Poland Update: On Wednesday, January 27, 2021, Poland’s government published an announcement from [...]
Center and International Human Rights Partners Call on Poland to Reject Bills Restricting Sexual and Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights, along with more than 100 other human rights organizations, released a joint statement that calls for the Polish parliament to reject two harmful proposals to restrict abortion and sexuality education [...]
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New Law Legalizes Abortion in Northern Ireland
Abortion will soon be legal in Northern Ireland after the adoption of new regulations by the United Kingdom on March 25 that allow women access to abortion on request up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. The [...]
Victory for Women in Northern Ireland
Victory for Women in Northern Ireland Court rules restrictive abortion law violates women’s rights Today, in a victory for women’s reproductive rights in Northern Ireland, the High Court of Northern Ireland ruled that the jurisdiction’s [...]
Northern Ireland Takes Critical Step Toward Decriminalization of Abortion
Northern Ireland Takes Critical Step Toward Decriminalization of Abortion In contrast to the recent proliferation of abortion bans and restrictions throughout the United States, the overall global trend is toward the liberalization of abortion laws [...]
Unequal Access to Maternal Health Care in the EU
Access to quality maternal health care is a human right to which all women and girls are entitled. Regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, or any other social, economic or political affiliation, all pregnant persons are [...]
Reproductive Rights Developments in Europe
Reproductive Rights Developments in Europe Round-Up of Abortion Law Reform in 2018 and a Preview of Prospective Developments in 2019 This Bulletin provides an overview of key legal [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
