U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to Indiana’s Abortion Waiting Period Law Washington, D.C. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider a challenge to an Indiana abortion law that forces women seeking abortions to make two separate trips to their physician’s office – at least 18 hours apart – before they can obtain […]
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Anchorage, Alaska Trial began on Monday in a case brought by Alaska reproductive health service providers, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Anchorage law firm of Feldman & Orlansky, challenging Alaska’s parental consent law. Alaska’s parental consent law, first enacted in 1997 but never enforced, requires pregnant minors under 17 who desire […]
UN Human Rights Committee Establishes Right to Abortion as a Human Right (Updated 3.18.21) The Center for Reproductive Rights persuaded the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) to recognize that women have a human right to access safe and legal abortion. In a ruling that has been cited extensively as precedent in other national-level court decisions on abortion access, the UNHRC established that denying access to legal abortion violates the International Covenant on […]
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https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/pub_nepal.jpg هذا التقرير، الذي أعده مركز الحقوق الإنجابية ومنتدى المرأة والقانون والتنمية، ووثائق انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان الناجمة عن قانون الإجهاض في نيبال. ويتناول التقرير انتهاكات حقوق المرأة المتعلقة حظر الإجهاض، فضلا عن الانتهاكات التي تحدث في تطبيق القانون. استنادا الى مقابلات مع 19 امرأة في السجن بتهم تتعلق بالإجهاض، والمسؤولين الحكوميين، ومقدمي الرعاية الصحية وغيرها، […]
Mexican Government Agrees to Establish Guidelines for Rape Victims’ Access to Abortion Care (Updated 3.18.21) Before the Inter American Commission of Human Rights, Mexico admitted responsibility for violating the rights of a 13-year-old rape victim, who was forced to continue a pregnancy that resulted from rape and become a mother after public health officials used a series of obstacles to convince her to withdraw her request for an abortion as a victim […]
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https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/elsalvadorspanish_0.jpg A recent constitutional amendment protecting the right to life from conception provides the fuel for this investigative report, which examines how these draconian measures have impacted women’s lives in El Salvador. The report also examines cases involving women and providers prosecuted for abortion and considers these charges in light of international human rights norms. […]