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UN Committee Holds Brazil Accountable
Last year, the Center for Reproductive Rights won a groundbreaking victory in our eight-year battle on behalf of Alyne da Silva Pimentel, an impoverished Afro-brazilian woman who died when doctors willfully failed to provide her [...]
Human Rights Day 2011
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” That’s the first sentence of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations 63 years ago on [...]
Human Rights Council Adopts Groundbreaking Resolution on Maternal Mortality
For the third year running, the UN's Human Rights Council has focused its attention on the global problem of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. A ground-breaking resolution was adopted yesterday, in which States reaffirm their [...]
RH Reality Check: International Human Rights Court Says Governments Must Ensure Timely Access to Maternal Health Services
By Jodi Jacobson "In 2002, Alyne da Silva Pimentel, a 28-year-old Afro-Brazilian woman, died after being denied basic medical care to address complications in her pregnancy. Her death might be like any one of the [...]
Brasil viola los derechos humanos de una mujer en caso de mortalidad materna, Decisión del Comité CEDAW de Naciones Unidas
Establece que los Estados deben garantizar acceso a servicios de salud materna adecuados Bogotá, Colombia - La decisión adoptada hoy por el Comité de Naciones Unidas para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer [...]
Historic U.N. Ruling Finds Brazil Violates Woman’s Human Rights in Maternal Death Case
(PRESS RELEASE) In the first-ever maternal death case to be decided by an international human rights body, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women established that governments have a human rights [...]
CRR in the Field: Mónica Arango Olaya
Since 1992, the Center's innovative legal work has fundamentally transformed the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and has already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries. CRR in the Field is [...]
Center Urges International Community to Utilize MDGs to Advance Human Rights
As world leaders gather in New York for the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit from September 20-22, the Center for Reproductive Rights is urging leaders to fully incorporate human rights into efforts to achieve the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Center for Reproductive Rights at the 2010 Global Maternal Health Conference
The Center will be participating in the Global Maternal Health Conference convened by the Maternal Health Task Force at EngenderHealth and the Public Health Foundation of India [...]
Decline in Maternal Mortality Welcome, but Suffering Persists
By Ximena Andión Ibañez, International Advocacy Director An article in the recent Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, announced a global decrease in maternal deaths from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The Center [...]
Women Deliver Conference: Moving Reproductive Health Forward
From June 7-9, the Center for Reproductive Rights joined more than 2,000 women, advocates, donors, government representatives and experts from 115 countries in Washington, D.C. at the Women Deliver Conference to urge global leaders to [...]
Clinton to Canada: Abortion Access Must be Included in G8 Initiative
Earlier this month during a G8* meeting of foreign ministers in Gatineau, Quebec, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, David Miliband, said that any international effort to boost [...]
Maternal Mortality Front and Center
Every year, more than half a million women die in pregnancy or childbirth. That's one woman or girl who dies every minute. For every woman who dies during pregnancy, an estimated 30 more suffer from [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
