Region: European Human Rights System
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Joint CSO Statement: Collective Vision for Gender Equality in the European Union
Released on the occasion of the European Institute for Gender Equality's Gender Equality Forum 2024.
10 Ways the EU is Driving Progress on Gender Equality and SRHR
The European Union’s recent five-year term made strides to increase access to maternal health care, contraception and abortion services; reduce gender-based violence; and enhance gender equality.
Policy Brief: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the European Union
The European Union is founded on the core values of human rights, rule of law, and gender equality, but these values can only be fully realized when sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are [...]
Joint Statement Calling on Incoming EU Leadership to Prioritise Equality and Non-Discrimination
Paving the Way for an Equality-Centred Policy Cycle Brussels, 11 July 2024—The European Union was founded on the principles of equality and non-discrimination. Yet too many people continue to face discrimination and inequality across the [...]
Poland’s Parliamentary Commission Recommends Decriminalization of Abortion
GENEVA, 25.06.2024 – The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes today’s landmark recommendation by a Polish parliamentary commission in favour of the decriminalization of abortion in Poland. This recommendation signals an important first step in efforts [...]
EU institutions endorse new law guaranteeing access to sexual and reproductive health care for survivors of sexual violence
15.02.24 (STATEMENT) - The Center for Reproductive Rights welcomes the groundbreaking inclusion of legal guarantees for access to sexual and reproductive healthcare for survivors of sexual violence in new EU legislation on violence against women. [...]
2024-2029: Priorities for EU Action to Advance Gender Equality and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
The Center's report recommending actions by EU institutions to ensure continued progress on gender equality and SRHR.
Advocating for SRHR at the European Union and the Council of Europe
The Center for Reproductive Rights engages with European multilateral bodies and policy makers to advance respect and protection for sexual and reproductive health and rights. We work to ensure that European Union institutions address shortcomings [...]
Defensoras del derecho al aborto finalistas al Premio Sájarov del Parlamento Europeo a la Libertad de Conciencia
En un nuevo reconocimiento de los derechos reproductivos - y en particular el derecho al aborto - como derechos humanos, las y los miembros del Parlamento Europeo tres aliadas del Centro de Derechos Reproductivos que [...]
On World Refugee Day, the Center Urges Action to Ensure Women and Girls Fleeing Ukraine Have Access to Essential Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
European governments and the European Union are called on to ensure barriers don’t impede access to critical services.
