This paper is directed at the U.S. reproductive rights movement with the goal of encouraging a frank conversation about disability rights within our movement. In recent years, largely as a result of the growing momentum [...]

The Center successfully pursued the first-ever forced sterilization case of a person living with HIV in Latin America. For many women, having a child is one of the best days of their lives. For Francisca, [...]

Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Lourdes Rivera as Senior Vice President, U.S. Programs (PRESS RELEASE) Lourdes Rivera has joined the Center for Reproductive Rights as the organization’s new Senior Vice President for U.S. Programs. Rivera [...]

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 [...]

Center for Reproductive Rights Announces Richard Ryan as New Chief Operating Officer Ryan brings nearly 20 years of non-profit, operations, and financial management experience to the organization (PRESS RELEASE) Richard Ryan has joined the Center [...]

Center for Reproductive Rights Announces High-Ranking State Department Official Karen Hanrahan as Chief Program Officer (PRESS RELEASE) The Center for Reproductive Rights has appointed Karen Hanrahan, who most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Releases Report on Torture and Ill-Treatment in Health Care Settings This week, Juan Mendez, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, [...]

Women’s Health is Not a Political Game by Nancy Northup, President & CEO, Center for Reproductive Rights With the 40th anniversary this month of the historic Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade has come a [...]

As part of its 2013 reviews of Chile and El Salvador, the Committee against Torture (CAT Committee) solicited input from civil society organizations to determine the issues that would be covered in the country revisions. [...]

Birth Control Alone Isn't Enough by Louise Finer, Director of Global Advocacy at the Center for Reproductive Rights In 1996, a Peruvian woman named María Mamérita Mestanza Chávez died from complications of a forced sterilization [...]