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Forsaken Lives: Donate Now to Make a Difference
The Center for Reproductive Rights is the world's expert in using constitutional and international human rights law to secure women's access to quality reproductive healthcare. We are the only reproductive rights legal advocate that works [...]
Forsaken Lives: Download Report
Criminal bans on abortion are harmful not only to women but also undermine entire health systems. The report, Forsaken Lives: The Harmful Impact of the Philippine Criminal Abortion Ban, documents the experiences of women in [...]
Demanding Rights for HIV Positive Women
Around the world, laws and policies stigmatize and discriminate against people living with HIV/AIDS, violating their human rights. In reaction to this, people living with HIV are increasingly using the law to hold governments accountable [...]
Forsaken Lives: Press Room
Requests for interviews: Dionne Scott, Senior Press Officer (917) 637-3649 [email protected] If you are a reporter working on deadline during non-business hours, please send an email including your telephone number to our Senior Press Officer [...]
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Criminal bans on abortion are harmful not only to women but also undermine entire health systems. The report, Forsaken Lives: The Harmful Impact of the Philippine Criminal Abortion Ban, documents the experiences of women in [...]
Forsaken Lives:The Harmful Impact of the Philippine Criminal Abortion Ban
The Philippines is one of the few countries in the world to criminalize abortion in all circumstances with no clear exceptions. As a consequence, women in the Philippines continue to die or suffer grave complications [...]
U.N. Calls on Nigeria to Tackle Teens Reproductive Health CRR and WARDC Urge Immediate Action
(PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and its partners in Nigeria Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) strongly urged the government of Nigeria to take immediate steps to follow recommendations from the [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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It’s About Our Mothers, Our Daughters, and Our Sisters
An interview with Linda Fentiman, Visiting Scholar As a Visiting Scholar with the Center's Law School Initiative, Linda Fentiman spent the spring and summer of 2010 studying the social and legal construction of motherhood. Providing [...]
Nebraska Takes Aim at Roe
Pregnant with their third child, Timothy and Dawn Mosher never thought they would seek an abortion. But five months into Dawn's pregnancy, doctors diagnosed the fetus with an extreme and irreparable spinal cord defect called [...]
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Denying Women Accurate Information About Pregnancy Options
Anti-choice groups have set up facilities all over the country with names like "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs), "pregnancy resource centers," or "pregnancy help centers." These facilities do not offer abortions, abortion referrals, or unbiased options [...]
Press Room: The Center and the Supreme Court
6.30.10 - Nancy Northup, CRR President, Available to Comment on Kagan Hearings and Abortion Rights 6.21.10 - CRR Legal Analysis of Elena Kagan's Abortion Rights Record >, 5.10.10 - Center for Reproductive Rights on Nomination [...]
African Women Still Not Getting Justice in National Courts, New Report Finds
(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced new research finding that national courts in African Commonwealth countries have failed to fully protect women against human rights violations, particularly in cases of sexual violence, [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
