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2024 State Legislative Wrap-Up
During 2024, the Center for Reproductive Rights tracked almost 2,000 pieces of reproductive rights legislation across 50 states, and Washington, D.C. This report highlights 2024 legislative trends impacting access to abortion care, assisted reproduction, and [...]
Right to Health Bench Book: Select Decisions, Issues and Themes (Kenya)
The Constitution of Kenya enshrines the right to health under the Bill of Rights. Notably, before the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, social and economic rights were not justiciable. Now, however, jurisprudence on [...]
Teenage Pregnancy, Sexual Violence and Impunity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Through cases filed by the Center and its partners against Ecuador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, this report discusses the regional pattern of girls forced to become mothers due to [...]
Impact Report: 2024 Girl Up Kenya Leadership Summit
The Center for Reproductive Rights' Africa team participated in the Girl Up Kenya Leadership Summit—an annual program that aims to empower girls and young women to take action in advancing gender equality—from July 26–27, 2024, [...]
Teenage Pregnancy in Africa—Status, Progress and Challenges (ACERWC Report)
This report by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child was developed in partnership and with contributions from the African Child Policy Forum, Plan International, and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Report: Legal and Human Rights Centre and Center for Reproductive Rights (on behalf of Tanzanian girls) v. The United Republic of Tanzania
In June 2019, the Legal and Human Rights Centre and Center for Reproductive Rights filed a case against the United Republic of Tanzania before the African Committe of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of [...]
¿Cómo beneficiaría a las niñas y adolescentes la eliminación del delito de aborto en Colombia?
A publication on the benefits of abortion decriminalization for girls and adolescents in Colombia.
Access to SRHR Information by Women and Girls in Kenya
The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partner, Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH), have launched a new report titled Access to SRHR Information by Women and Girls in Kenya: Assessment of Nairobi, Bungoma, Homabay, [...]
Improving Access to Abortion in Crisis Settings
This tool is designed to help program planners and organizations understand abortion law and manage legal risk when providing or supporting access to abortion for people who are displaced by crisis. It provides general guidance [...]
Youth Reproductive Rights and the COVID-19 Response
This fact sheet discusses how youth access to reproductive care has been further imperiled by the COVID-19 pandemic and what governments should do about it.
Criminalizing Adolescence
Adolescents constitute 24 percent of the population in Kenya. Nearly one-quarter of adolescents living in Kenya have an unmet need for family planning. This leaves adolescents vulnerable to early and unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmissible [...]
Fact Sheet: Independent Thought V. India
On October 11, 2017, the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark judgment recognizing every girl’s right to bodily integrity, and penalizing rape within child marriage. In Independent Thought v. Union of India and Another, [...]
Annual Report 2017
As we mark our 25th anniversary, the Center for Reproductive Rights celebrates the trails we have blazed and the progress we have made toward building a world where reproductive rights are recognized and respected as [...]
Standing Up for Reproductive Rights: A Look Back at the 114th Congress
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. I am resolved that we shall win the tomorrows before us. -President Lyndon B. [...]
Federal Policy Agenda 2017-2018
Intended as a resource for Congress, as well as our allies and supporters, our 2017–2018 federal policy agenda identifies harmful policies we oppose as well as proactive legislative priorities that would defend against serious threats [...]
Violence against Women and Reproductive Rights in the Americas
The numerous forms of violence that are committed against women pose an obstacle to their individual development, violate their rights, and limit their freedoms. Violence against women blocks the full development of their capacities and [...]