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2016 Gala: A Celebratory Evening
With the soaring view of a New York City night skyline as a backdrop, Center for Reproductive Rights board chair Kathleen Tait welcomed 500 guests to the 2016 gala celebrating the organization’s historic achievements—from Texas [...]
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 [...]
The Himalayan Times: The urgent need of comprehensive law
The Himalayan Times: The urgent need of comprehensive law By Sapana Malla Pradhan In Nepal, we just culminated a month long celebration acknowledging abortion law reform in this country, including the amendment to the Muluki [...]
A World of Tragedy: The real-world consequences of a “human life” amendment
A World of Tragedy: The real-world consequences of a “human life” amendment The opponents of reproductive rights are once again calling for a "human life" amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Of course, the Constitution already [...]
CRR Celebrates 20 Years
CRR Celebrates 20 Years Twenty years ago on June 15, 1992, the Center for Reproductive Rights opened its doors. A small team of lawyers had a vision to start an organization that coalesced around the [...]
Himalayan Times: Safe and Affordable Abortion is a Woman’s Right
by Melissa Upreti, Asia regional director for the Center for Reproductive Rights Three years ago, Nepal’s Supreme Court (SC) catapulted the nation to the forefront of the global women’s rights movement by unequivocally ruling that [...]
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Thirty years ago, women’s rights activists first marked November 25 as the day on which the world would demand an end to all physical and sexual abuse targeted at women. It took another 18 years [...]
Dallas Observer: Texas Is the ‘Big Fish,’ and the Anti-Abortion Movement Has Lots of Bait in the Water
By Anna Merlan "The First Unitarian Church of Dallas hosted a special guest last week: Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The CRR, if you recall, is the New York-based organization that [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
38 Years of Roe v. Wade
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court struck down Texas’s criminal abortion laws, finding that the right to decide whether to have a child is a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. [...]
Human Rights Day 2010
December 10 is Human Rights Day and a time to remind the world of the importance of taking a stand for reproductive rights. Sixty-two years ago this December, the U.N. adopted the Universal Declaration of [...]
Where the U.S. Went Wrong on Abortion
CBS News.com, March 31, 2010Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive RightsNow that “baby killer” is the new “you lie!”, close observers of Congress could be forgiven for thinking that watching CSPAN coverage of the healthcare [...]
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 [...]
CBSnews.com: Where the U.S. Went Wrong on Abortion
Nancy Northup: While Our Parochial Discourse has Stagnated, Other Nations Are Undergoing Frank Policy Reassessments Now that "baby killer" is the new "you lie!", close observers of Congress could be forgiven for thinking that watching [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
