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In Front of the UN, Peru Recognizes Need to Guarantee Certain Reproductive Rights

In the last months of 2012, two human rights bodies issued their findings on Peru, including several issues that have an impact on the country's reproductive rights landscape. In both instances, the Center for Reproductive [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Adolescent SRHR, Sex Education, Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Legal Protections,Latin America & Caribbean, Peru, Accountability Bodies, United Nations,At the United Nations,Documents

Veto Letter to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon: Senate Bill 749

Read the Center for Reproductive Rights' letter to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon urging him to veto Senate Bill 749 which would prevent women from accessing insurance coverage for contraception and conflict with federal law. The [...]

Contraception, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Other Financial Barriers,United States,Engaging Policymakers,Documents

Veto Letter to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder: House Bill 5711

Read the Center for Reproductive Rights' letter to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder urging him to veto House Bill 5711 which would impose unnecessary, medically inappropriate and harmful regulations on the provision of abortion services in [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,United States,Engaging Policymakers,Documents

Concluding Observations and Shadow Letter on Tanzania, 2012

In August, the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) regarding sexual and reproductive rights in Tanzania. The Committee's concluding observations, which were [...]

Legal Restrictions, Adolescent SRHR, Sex Education, Contraception, Legal Restrictions, Right to Care, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Maternal Mortality,Africa, Tanzania, Accountability Bodies, United Nations,At the United Nations,Documents

Reproductive Rights: A Tool for Monitoring State Obligations

The Monitoring Tool provides a means to monitor the implementation of specific State obligations in the field of reproductive rights. The tool outlines State obligations under international and regional human rights law on a range [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Legal Restrictions, Other Barriers, Adolescent SRHR, Sex Education, Censorship, Contraception, Emergency Contraception, Legal Protections, Legal Restrictions, Discriminatory Policies, Right to Care, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Coercive Policies, Maternal Mortality,Accountability Bodies, African Human Rights System, Inter-American Human Rights System, European Human Rights System, United Nations,At the United Nations, Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Documents

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