A key United Nations human rights body, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee), is urging Ecuador to curb sexual violence against girls in schools. The issue was highlighted by a shadow letter from the Center. According to local organizations, between 22% and 63% of Ecuadorian girls report sexual abuse in […]
European Court of Human Rights Sets Standards for the Rights of Adolescents to Reproductive Health Services (Updated 04.01.21) The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Poland violated an adolescent’s human rights when her access to a legal abortion after being sexually assaulted was repeatedly obstructed. The Court, for the first, time addressed the special vulnerability of adolescents in need of abortion care and confirmed young people’s […]
https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2014-07-23-at-2.55.28-PM.png This report, produced by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Forum for Women, Law and Development, documents human rights abuses arising from Nepal’s abortion law. The report examines violations of women’s rights relating to the abortion ban, as well as violations that occur in the enforcement of the law. Based on interviews with […]
Court Joins Global Trend of Loosening Restrictions on Abortion NEW YORK – Today in an 8 to 3 groundbreaking vote, Mexico’s Supreme Court upheld Mexico City’s law making abortion legal in the first trimester, ruling that the Mexico City assembly had the power to legislate over the issue of abortion and recognizing women’s autonomy over […]
Almost 60,000 women die every year in Nigeria from preventable pregnancy-related causes because the oil-rich country has failed to implement and enforce its own policies on maternal health, according to a new report published by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights and the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) in Lagos, Nigeria. Broken […]
Center for Reproductive Rights Releases 2007 “What if Roe Fell?” Report, Groundbreaking Polling Shows A Majority of Americans Believe Roe is Vulnerable WASHINGTON, D.C.- According to legal analysis conducted by the Center for Reproductive Rights, Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision, is under attack like never before with activists using new strategies at […]
For decades, women seeking maternity services in health facilities across Kenya have suffered serious human rights violations — including verbal attacks, sexual assault, flagrant neglect and filthy conditions — often while giving birth, according to a new fact-finding report published by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Federation of Women Lawyers — Kenya (FIDA […]
United States Goes Before U.N. Human Rights Committee Geneva – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights urged the United States to uphold the legal pledge it made under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), an international human rights treaty established in 1966 by members of the United Nations. The Center called on […]
In this letter to the editor, Nancy Northup warns that a Roe reversal would be devastating to women’s reproductive rights in the United States, despite the mild projections of a recent Op-Ed in USA Today. USA Today, Letter to the EditorPublished: August 3, 2005To the Editor: Re “If ‘Roe’ were overturned,” by Laura Vanderkam (The […]