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How the states with the best access to abortion services compare to the worst

Insider quotes the Center's Elisabeth Smith and refers readers to the Center's What If Roe Fell tool in reporting on abortion care access in different U.S. states.

Center in the Spotlight

Center Appeals to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for Release of Unjustly Imprisoned Salvadoran Women

Women at Risk of COVID-19 After Inaction by Salvadoran Government The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on December 3 and urged it to recommend that [...]

Abortion,El Salvador, Inter-American Human Rights System,Around the World,Story

Submission to OHCHR on systemic racism and the connections between police violence and reproductive rights violations against Black women

United States,At the United Nations,Documents

Medical Abortion and Self-Managed Abortion: Frequently Asked Questions on Health and Human Rights

This document was developed by the Center for Reproductive Rights and Ipas to answer some frequently asked health and human rights questions about medical abortion (also called medication abortion or abortion with medication) and self-managed [...]

Abortion,Fact Sheets

Catalina Martínez Coral on the Center’s Recent Human Rights Victory in Latin America

As a global organization, the Center for Reproductive Rights advances reproductive rights as human rights around the world. In August, the Center secured a landmark victory in a case at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that established standards to [...]

Adolescent SRHR,Inter-American Human Rights System,In the Courts,News
PAK and Salim Mohammed v. Attorney General and Three Others (Malindi High Court Petition Number E009 of 2020) card link

PAK and Salim Mohammed v. Attorney General and Three Others (Malindi High Court Petition Number E009 of 2020)

In this landmark case, the Kenyan High Court affirmed abortion as a fundamental right under the 2010 Constitution.

Abortion, Other Barriers,Africa, Kenya,In the Courts,Case

Global Advocacy

The Center for Reproductive Rights plays a leading role in establishing and promoting reproductive rights as human rights at the United Nations and other multilateral fora.

United States

In the United States, the Center for Reproductive Rights litigates in federal and state courts and advocates for laws and policies to ensure reproductive rights and health services are available across the country.

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Based in Bogotá, Colombia, the Center for Reproductive Rights Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Program works to ensure that reproductive rights are recognized as human rights at the national, regional and international levels.

Europe

Despite decades of progress, the promise of sexual and reproductive rights remains unfulfilled for many across Europe due to discrimination and inequality.

Asia

The Center for Reproductive Rights is a driving force behind important advances in reproductive rights laws and policies, improving access to reproductive health care and advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the region.

Our Regions

Throughout the world, the Center has played a critical role in securing legal victories and advancing laws and policies that improve women’s reproductive rights and access to life-saving obstetrics care, contraception, maternal health, and safe [...]

Africa

The Center for Reproductive Rights Africa Program uses the human rights and reproductive justice frameworks to address the root causes and systemic violations of the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls in the Africa region.

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.