The judicial branch of government is essential to the viability and sustainability of any democracy. Judges make decisions every day that directly affect people’s lives, influencing public perceptions of whether and how justice is being carried out. Each judicial decision is political and, collectively, courts’ approach to interpreting and applying the law profoundly affects the […]
The Global Gag Rule penalizes non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 561 countries that receive family planning assistance funds from the U.S. These NGOs are prohibited from providing abortion-related services, including counseling and referrals, and/or lobbying on abortion issues. Depending on the abortion laws in their countries, NGOs are feeling the Global Gag Rule’s effects in different […]
Executive Summary Every year, twenty million—mostly poor—women around the world are driven to unsafe abortion. More than 95% of these abortions occur in low-income countries. And every year, complications from these procedures claim the lives of some 70,000 women. Untold millions more suffer serious injuries and permanent disabilities. Set against this international health crisis is […]
Article authors: Luisa Cabal, Mónica Roa, Lilian Sepúlveda-Oliva Printed in Health and Human Rights: An International Journal, published by the Harvard School of Public Health Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, vol. 7, no. 1 (2003) The Center for Reproductive Rights’ International Legal Program and its partner organizations in the region have helped […]
Statement of Nancy Northup, President, Center for Reproductive Rights “Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $15 billion HIV/AIDS plan aimed at combating the AIDS pandemic internationally over the next five years. We applaud the House’s decision because U.S. financial commitment to providing access to effective prevention, treatment, and care for people living with […]
Innovative Research Reveals the Disparity between the Laws that Protect the Rights of Latin American Women and their Application Today the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Universidad de Los Andes School of Law (UNIANDES) released a report entitled Bodies on Trial: Reproductive Rights in Latin America, which is an English summary of the findings […]
Case Challenges Overall Policy for Issuing Specialty Plates Yesterday, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed an amended complaint challenging Louisiana’s policy of issuing specialty license plates. The Center charges that Louisiana’s specialty plates infringe on first amendment rights because they only express one viewpoint on an issue. In Louisiana, no pro-choice license plate exists, yet […]
UN Human Rights Committee Establishes Right to Abortion as a Human Right (Updated 3.18.21) The Center for Reproductive Rights persuaded the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) to recognize that women have a human right to access safe and legal abortion. In a ruling that has been cited extensively as precedent in other national-level court decisions on abortion access, the UNHRC established that denying access to legal abortion violates the International Covenant on […]
Observaciones finales: Argentina_CEDAW_2002_Espanol https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Concluding-Observations_CEDAW-re-Argentina-2002.pdf
Observaciones finales: Argentina_CRC_2002_Ingles https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Concluding-Observation_CRC-re-Argentina-2002.pdf