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Defending Human Rights: Executive Summary
Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment For more than 60 years, the United States has joined most countries of the world in formally recognizing and committing to protect the fundamental human rights set out [...]
Defending Human Rights: Get Involved
Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment Every day, ordinary people put themselves on the line to make sure women are able to exercise their fundamental right to health, which includes access to reproductive health [...]
Defending Human Rights: Learn More
Abortion Providers Facing Threats, Restrictions, and Harassment This report documents the heroism of abortion providers whose dedication to women’s reproductive health compels them to act despite severe personal and professional sacrifices. It details the pervasive [...]
Defending Human Rights: Abortion Providers Under Siege
Watch the first installment of the Center’s three part video series, Intimidation &, Harassment: Preying on Providers, documenting the real stories of abortion providers, clinic employees and patients.In this video, shot in Pennsylvania, meet the [...]
HRD Homepage
Placeholder Video Human Rights Defenders (Website Landing Page) Women’s reproductive rights are grounded in universal human rights the United States has recognized for more than 60 years. These rights include the rights to life, [...]
L.C. v. Peru (UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women)
UN Committee Rules Treaty Obligations Guarantee Reproductive Health Services (Updated 3.18.21) The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) ruled that Peru's failure to guarantee access to essential reproductive health services, including legal abortion, [...]
Remembering Dr. George Tiller
Dr. George Tiller, who was murdered on May 31, 2009, operated the Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas for more than 30 years. Dr. Tiller was a fearless defender of women's fundamental health and [...]
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.
K.L. v. Peru: Final Decision
K.L. v. Peru: Final Decision Subject Matter: Refusal to provide medical services to the author in connection with a therapeutic abortion which is not a punishable offense and for which express provision has been made [...]
Center for Reproductive Rights on Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court
Statement from Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights New York, NY—Today, President Obama announced that he will nominate federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Nancy Northup, [...]
Caso del Centro de Derechos Reproductivos recibe premio por promover la equidad de género
El caso K.L. v. Perú gana el premio Mallete de Bronce en el concurso “Género y Justicia al Descubierto" Esta semana un jurado internacional de los Premios Género y Justicia al Descubierto 2009 otorgó a [...]
Keep Justice in the Supreme Court: The Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Fifteen years. That's how long it's been since a pro-choice president has had the opportunity to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat. It's an opportunity that none of us can miss to make sure the [...]
Take Action Against the Hyde Amendment
Take Action Against the Hyde Amendment A poor woman in Texas, relying on public assistance to make ends meet for her family, decides that she can’t continue an unwanted pregnancy. But a first-trimester abortion costs [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
