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Veto Letter to NE Governor Heineman: Legislative Bill 1103

Veto Letter to NE Governor Heineman: The Center for Reproductive Rights strongly opposes Legislative Bill 1103 and urges you to veto this measure. This bill is clearly unconstitutional and is the most extreme abortion law [...]

Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Documents

Veto Letter to NE Governor Heineman: Legislative Bill 594

Veto Letter to NE Governor Heineman: The Center for Reproductive Rights opposes Legislative Bill 594 and urges you to veto this measure. Legislative Bill 594 would require physicians to comply with vague, confusing and possibly [...]

Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Documents

Letter to President Barack Obama: Family Planning and Contraception Are Essential to Maternal and Child Health

Dear President Obama: I am writing as a representative of the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center), an international non-governmental organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women's reproductive freedom worldwide. The Center [...]

Abortion, Contraception, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Maternal Mortality,United States,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Documents

Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: Family Planning and Contraception Are Essential to Maternal and Child Health

Dear Secretary Clinton: I am writing as a representative of the Center for Reproductive Rights (the Center), an international non-governmental organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women's reproductive freedom worldwide. The Center [...]

Abortion, Contraception, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Maternal Mortality,United States,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Documents

Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: USAID funding for the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia

The Honourable Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Clinton: I am writing to express my profound concern over United States Agency for [...]

Latin America & Caribbean, Colombia, United States,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Documents
Download: A Ten-Year Retrospective: Reproductive Rights at the Start of the 21st Century card link

Download: A Ten-Year Retrospective: Reproductive Rights at the Start of the 21st Century

During the first decade of the 21st century, emerging international legal standards provided broad support for reproductive health as a right essential to the freedom and self-determination of women, recognized maternal mortality as a human [...]

Abortion, Contraception, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Maternal Health,United States,Documents

Davis v. W.A. Drew Edmondson: Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment

Plaintiffs Motion for Summary Judgment and Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment are now before the Court for consideration. After thoroughly reviewing the Motions, supporting materials, and language of House Bill 1595, and giving the parties [...]

In the Courts,Documents

ECPetition.pdf

Contraception, Emergency Contraception,United States,Engaging Policymakers, In the States (USA),Documents

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

Joint Letter to Melanne Verveer: Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

  March 10, 2010 Ambassador-at-Large Melanne Verveer Global Women's Issues United States Department of State Washington, DC We, the undersigned representatives of women's, youth, and sexual and reproductive health and rights organizations would like to [...]

Abortion, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Maternal Mortality,Accountability Bodies, United Nations,At the United Nations,Documents

In Harm’s Way: Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

  March 8, 2010 Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Clinton: As President of the Center for Reproductive Rights, I write to express my [...]

Abortion,Africa, Kenya, Accountability Bodies, African Human Rights System, United Nations,At the United Nations, Engaging Policymakers, Around the World, In Washington D.C.,Documents

Decision: Nova Health Systems v. Henry (OK)

On March 2, 2010, the Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed the judgment that S.B. 1878 is unconstitutional. S.B. 1878 was the law from 2008 that, among other things, required mandatory review of ultrasound images, imposed restrictions [...]

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Concluding Observations: Egypt_CEDAW_2009_English

In 2009, the Center, in collaboration with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) submitted a shadow letter to the CEDAW Committee highlighting Egypt’s failure to promote and protect women’s sexual and reproductive rights.  The [...]

Adolescent SRHR, Sex Education, Contraception, Discriminatory Policies, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality,Africa,At the United Nations,Documents

Healthcare Summit 2010: Summary and Highlights

Summary and highlights from the 2010 Healthcare Summit.

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.