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U.S. Abortion Rights in Global Context
When the United States Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, it defied the overwhelming and decades-long global trend of liberalizing abortion laws and marginalized the U.S. on the international stage.
Medication Abortion in Global Context: Frequently Asked Questions
Despite continued barriers to care, medication abortion has transformed global abortion access.
With its Regression on Abortion Rights, the U.S. is a Global Outlier
The United States is one of only four countries that has rolled back abortion rights since 1994.
South Asia Reproductive Justice and Accountability Initiative (SARJAI)
SARJAI network has been the catalyst for Center’s capacity building work in the region by bringing like-minded lawyers and academics together to promote accountability for reproductive rights violations.
Law and Policy Guide: Criminality
← Return to the full Law and Policy Guide and the World's Abortion Laws Map Within the context of the global trend towards the liberalization of abortion, countries are also increasingly removing criminal sanctions on [...]
Law and Policy Guide: Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Quality Framework
← Return to the full Law and Policy Guide and the World's Abortion Laws Map The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR Committee) has set forth four essential elements of the right to [...]
2021 Year in Review: Center Achievements Around the Globe
The Center for Reproductive Rights and its local partners made significant progress around the globe in building, enforcing and defending reproductive rights.
In India, Center Partners with Law School to Offer Reproductive Law and Justice Clinic
Members of the Center's Asia team are among the instructors at this pilot program at Jindal Global Law School.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
International Human Rights and Abortion: Spotlight on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
International and human rights organizations and legal experts weigh in to support the Center’s Supreme Court case challenging a Mississippi abortion ban.
Amicus Work: Asia
Lakshmi v Government of Nepal Supreme Court of Nepal (2008) Issue: The petition challenged the Nepal government’s failure to ensure adequate access to safe abortion services despite the decriminalization of abortion on broad grounds in 2002. [...]
Landmark Cases
Since its founding in 1992, the Center has shaped legal precedent on reproductive rights through victories in regional, federal and local courts around the world, as well at the United Nations, and has been involved [...]
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure reproductive rights are guaranteed in law as human rights, announced [...]
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights
New Directors Join Board of Center for Reproductive Rights (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure reproductive rights are guaranteed in law as human rights, announced [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
