At the United Nations
U.N. Committee Calls on Croatia to Expand Reproductive Health Services and End Discrimination Against Women
U.N. Committee Calls on Croatia to Expand Reproductive Health Services and End Discrimination Against Women (PRESS RELEASE) The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) has called on the Croatian government to take concrete steps to improve the quality of care provided to pregnant women during child birth. It also […]
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 elaborate on the measures states must take to guarantee women’s right to life on the basis of equality and nondiscrimination, […]
CRR Submission for Human Rights Committee’s General Comment on the Right to Life
The Center for Reproductive Rights prepared this submission to the Human Rights Committee in advance of its drafting a revised general comment on the right to life. This submission urges the Committee to reaffirm that the right to life begins at birth and to further clarify that women’s human rights cannot be violated or curtailed […]
Joint Statement for Human Rights Committee Day of Discussion on the Right to Life
The Center and over 50 human rights organizations from across the globe issued this joint statement to the Human Rights Committee for its day of discussion on the right to life, calling on the Committee to take into account the risks women and girls face to their lives as a result of their gender and […]
U.N. Human Rights Council Grills U.S. on Reproductive Rights
U.N. Human Rights Council Grills U.S. on Reproductive Rights Governments question U.S. for denying foreign assistance to women in need of safe abortion services (PRESS RELEASE) Governments this week asked the United States to explain its failure to address the misapplication of the Helms Amendment, a 40-year-old policy that — on paper – permits the […]
Universal Periodic Review Fact Sheet: Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities
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Universal Periodic Review Fact Sheet: Discrimination Against Immigrants in Access to Health Care, Including Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Information
Download below. https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Immigrants-UPR-Fact-Sheet_Final.pdf
Shadow Report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on the Second Universal Periodic Review of the U.S.
Click the link below to download the Center’s shadow report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for the United States in May 2015. Our report, a joint submission with Women Enabled International, addresses key issues for women with disabilities in the United States, including violence and abuse, access to […]