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Law and Policy Guide: Fetal Viability and Impairments
← Return to the full Law and Policy Guide and the World's Abortion Laws Map Laws permitting abortion in cases of fetal impairment vary in their formulation: Some countries limit the exception to non-viable pregnancies [...]
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 [...]
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.
Sara Rogel: El Salvador frees woman accused of abortion
BBC News
A BBC News article discusses the release from prison of Sara Rogel, a woman in El Salvador who was unjustly imprisoned after being accused under the country’s anti-abortion law. According to the report, dozens of [...]
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 [...]
Honduras Bans Abortion by Amending its Constitution
Change seeks to prevent any future attempts at allowing access to abortion services in Honduras.
Women who are unjustly imprisoned in El Salvador must be released in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic
Amidst the imminent spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the precarious prison infrastructure in El Salvador, La Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto, La Colectiva Feminista para el Desarrollo Local , the Centre for [...]
Las mujeres que están encarceladas injustamente en El Salvador deben ser liberadas ante la pandemia por COVID-19
Ante el avance de la pandemia y la precaria infraestructura carcelaria en El Salvador, la Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto, la Colectiva Feminista para el Desarrollo Local, el Centro de Derechos Reproductivos (CRR, [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
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Demanding Accountability
Latin America is the only region in the world in which the pregnancy rate for girls under 15 years of age is rising. Most of these pregnancies are the result of rape, frequently by family [...]
Innovative litigation filed against three countries to protect girls’ rights in Latin America
Geneva (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Global, Mujeres Transformando el Mundo Guatemala (MTM), Observatorio en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva Guatemala (OSAR), Surkuna Ecuador, Fundación Desafío and Asociación de Mujeres Axayacatl filed a lawsuit with the United Nations Human Rights Committee [...]
La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Hace un Llamado Para un Mejor Acceso a Servicios de Salud Reproductiva
La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Hace un Llamado Para un Mejor Acceso a Servicios de Salud Reproductiva (COMUNICADO DE PRENSA) La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) - el principal organismo de derechos humanos [...]
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Calls for Better Access to Reproductive Health Services
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Calls for Better Access to Reproductive Health Services (PRESS RELEASE) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)—the principal human rights body for the Americas—released a statement that underscores how laws [...]
Costa Rica debe cumplir sentencia de la Corte IDH y garantizar la Fecundación in Vitro
Costa Rica debe cumplir sentencia de la Corte IDH y garantizar la Fecundación in Vitro (COMUNICADO DE PRENSA) Las organizaciones de derechos humanos abajo firmantes instamos al Estado costarricense a cumplir lo ordenado por la [...]
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
