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Decline in Maternal Mortality Welcome, but Suffering Persists
By Ximena Andión Ibañez, International Advocacy Director An article in the recent Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, announced a global decrease in maternal deaths from 526,300 in 1980 to 342,900 in 2008. The Center [...]
Women Deliver Conference: Moving Reproductive Health Forward
From June 7-9, the Center for Reproductive Rights joined more than 2,000 women, advocates, donors, government representatives and experts from 115 countries in Washington, D.C. at the Women Deliver Conference to urge global leaders to [...]
One Year Later: Celebrating Nepal’s Comprehensive Abortion Law
One year ago today, May 20, 2010, the Nepal Supreme Court ordered the government of Nepal to enact a comprehensive abortion law guaranteeing that all women have safe and affordable access to legal abortion services [...]
Eyes on the Supreme Court: The Nomination of Elena Kagan
The Center for Reproductive Rights has released a legal analysis of Solicitor General Elena Kagan's record on abortion rights. The analysis is based on a thorough review of publicly available documents, including her memoranda while [...]
Introducing the 2010-2012 CRR-CLS Fellow: Elizabeth Sepper
Liz Sepper is the second recipient of the two-year Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellowship, which prepares recent law school graduates for careers as law teachers and scholars. Sepper has focused on women's rights [...]
Decade-long Arizona Abortion Battle Ends in Victory
05.07.10 - Earlier today, a longtime legal challenge against a 1999 Arizona law regulating abortion providers has come to a close and a 10-year stay blocking the law's enforcement has been lifted by the U.S. [...]
Abortion in Colombia: Hard-Won Gains at Risk
USAID funds must not be used to roll back historic wins for women's reproductive health and rights in Colombia — this is the message that the Center recently delivered to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary [...]
Center Remembers Civil Rights Leader Dorothy I. Height
The Center for Reproductive Rights is deeply saddened by the death of the legendary civil rights leader, educator and women's activist Dr. Dorothy Height. Dr. Height dedicated her life to social justice with an unshakable [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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Honoring the Memory of Founding Board Member Francis W. Hatch
On Thursday, April 8, Francis W. Hatch, a founding Board Member of the Center for Reproductive Rights, Honorary Trustee, and former Republican minority leader in the Massachusetts Legislature, died peacefully in Boston at the age [...]
Clinton to Canada: Abortion Access Must be Included in G8 Initiative
Earlier this month during a G8* meeting of foreign ministers in Gatineau, Quebec, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, David Miliband, said that any international effort to boost [...]
Visiting Scholar: Professor Linda Fentiman, Spring 2010
Professor Fentiman joined the Center as a Visiting Scholar for spring 2010 while on sabbatical from Pace University School of Law where she teaches Contracts, Criminal Law, and Public Health Law. Professor Fentiman served as [...]
Visiting Scholar: Isabel Jaramillo, Spring 2010
Isabel Jaramillo, Professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia is a Visiting Scholar at the Center this spring. Professor Jaramillo is the Director of the Jurisprudence Program and coordinator of the IDEG, [...]
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 [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
