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Journey to Justice
Journey to Justice Fifteen years after being denied an abortion, a Peruvian woman is paid reparations by the government in a landmark human rights victory. Last week one of our clients, a woman known as [...]
Gender Equality and Empowerment of All Women And Girls Central to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
Gender Equality and Empowerment of All Women And Girls Central to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (PRESS RELEASE) Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is at the crux of 17 goals in [...]
Global NGOs Urge U.N. Human Rights Committee to Reaffirm the Right to Life Begins at Birth
Global NGOs Urge U.N. Human Rights Committee to Reaffirm the Right to Life Begins at Birth (PRESS RELEASE) More than 50 NGOs are calling upon the U.N. Human Rights Committee (U.N. HRC) to reinforce and [...]
The Scars of Torture
The Scars of Torture After a woman suffers painful and terrifying complications during the last hours of childbirth, the worst is usually over for her. That wasn't the case for Maimuna, one of scores of [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Releases Report on Torture and Ill-Treatment in Health Care Settings
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Releases Report on Torture and Ill-Treatment in Health Care Settings This week, Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, [...]
Slate: Rape Exceptions Don’t Work
Slate: Rape Exceptions Don't Work By Amanda Marcotte "Irin Carmon has an excellent piece at Salon decrying, in light of the Akin controversy, the entire discourse around 'rape exceptions.' Carmon points out that when rape [...]
RH REALITY CHECK: Birth Control Alone Isn’t Enough
Birth Control Alone Isn't Enough by Louise Finer, Director of Global Advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights In 1996, a Peruvian woman named María Mamérita Mestanza Chávez died from complications of a forced sterilization [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Brazil Supreme Court Allows Abortion in Cases of a Severe Fetal Condition
Country’s highest court rules to decriminalize abortion for women carrying fetuses with anencephaly (PRESS RELEASE) Brazilian women now have a right to access abortion if they are carrying pregnancies suffering from anencephaly—a severe fetal anomaly [...]
RH Reality Check: Many International Agreements Later, Girls and Young Women Worldwide Still Lack Basic Rights
By Louise Finer, International Advocacy Manager, Center for Reproductive Rights Moldova is one of more than two dozen countries that celebrate International Women’s Day — March 8 — as a holiday, with an official day [...]
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Thirty years ago, women’s rights activists first marked November 25 as the day on which the world would demand an end to all physical and sexual abuse targeted at women. It took another 18 years [...]
El Centro de Derechos Reproductivos abre su nueva oficina regional en Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia - Hoy, el Centro de Derechos Reproductivos anunció la apertura de su nueva oficina regional para América Latina y el Caribe en Bogotá, Colombia. El Centro ha trabajado en la región desde hace [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights Opens New Regional Office in Colombia
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced the opening of its new regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogotá, Colombia. The Center has worked in the region for fifteen years, [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
