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 [...]
Gaining Ground: A Tool for Advancing Reproductive Rights Law Reform
Women's equality and status in society are directly linked to their enjoyment of reproductive rights. Around the world, human rights law and international commitments require governments to reform laws and policies that deny women these [...]
Imposing Misery: The Impact of Manila’s Contraception Ban on Women and Families
Likhaan, ReproCen, and the Center for Reproductive Rights have released a report documenting the devastating impact of Manila’s contraception ban on women and their families. In 2000, the mayor of Manila, Jose "Lito" Atienza, issued [...]
Abortion Decision Puts U.S. Out of Step With the World
Times Herald-Record, Opinion, May 6, 2007Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive RightsRoe v. Wade was an early victory in the struggle for legal recognition of women's right to reproductive health care. It gave strength to [...]
The Center for Reproductive Rights Commends Mexico City for New Law Legalizing Abortion in First Trimester
Vote Follows Important Decisions Acknowledging Reproductive Rights As Human Rights Tuesday, April 24, 2007, New York, NY USA -- Today Mexico City's legislature voted to make abortion legal in the first trimester, a landmark decision [...]
El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos elogia a la ciudad de México por la nueva ley que despenaliza el aborto en el primer trimestre de embarazo
La votación se apega a importantes decisiones que reconocen los derechos reproductivos como derechos humanos Miércoles, 24 de abril de 2007, Nueva York, EE.UU. - El día de hoy la Asamblea Legislativa de la Ciudad [...]
Statement on Supreme Court’s Abortion Ruling by Dr. LeRoy H. Carhart, the lead plaintiff in Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) and Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)
April 18, 2007 - I am devastated by today's decision. I have taken this issue to the Supreme Court twice because I care deeply about the health of my patients and all women. When the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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Roberts Court Shows Its Cards: In A Stunning Reversal, Supreme Court Rules Against Women’s Health, In Favor Of Abortion Restriction
Today, in its ruling upholding the Federal Abortion Ban case, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively overturned 30 years of precedent and announced that women's health is no longer a paramount concern. The Center for Reproductive [...]
Tysiac v. Poland (European Court of Human Rights)
The European Court of Human Rights held on March 20, 2007, for the first time, that governments have a duty to establish effective mechanisms for ensuring that women have access to abortion where it is [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Applauds Landmark Abortion Decision by European Court of Human Rights
Court finds Poland in violation of human rights and awards EUR 25,000 in case of woman left nearly blind. March 20, 2007 - The European Court of Human Rights held today, for the first time, [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Statement On 8th Circuit Ruling that Employers Don’t Have to Cover Contraceptives in Health Plans
New York, NY - Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that the country's largest railroad, Union Pacific, is not discriminating against women by excluding coverage for prescription contraceptives in its [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
