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 […]
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May 2002 Key findings and regional trends from Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting Their Reproductive Lives, Anglophone Africa Progess Report 2001, reveal the continuing gaps in governments’ compliance with international standards on reproductive health and rights. The report is based on a two-year collaboration between advocates from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South […]
Mexican Government Agrees to Establish Guidelines for Rape Victims’ Access to Abortion Care (Updated 3.18.21) Before the Inter American Commission of Human Rights, Mexico admitted responsibility for violating the rights of a 13-year-old rape victim, who was forced to continue a pregnancy that resulted from rape and become a mother after public health officials used a series of obstacles to convince her to withdraw her request for an abortion as a victim […]
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https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/elsalvadorspanish_0.jpg A recent constitutional amendment protecting the right to life from conception provides the fuel for this investigative report, which examines how these draconian measures have impacted women’s lives in El Salvador. The report also examines cases involving women and providers prosecuted for abortion and considers these charges in light of international human rights norms. […]