Europe: Submissions & Reports
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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 [...]
CEDAW Poland Report Media Kit
Media kit about the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Inquiry on Poland’s abortion law, issued in August, 2024.
Opinion for the Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine (Germany)
Stellungnahme für die Kommission zur Reproduktiven Selbstbestimmung und Fortpflanzungsmedizin (Deutschland)
European Abortion Laws: A Comparative Overview
Get an overview of abortion laws and policies in all 47 European countries (updated September 2023).
Submission on Poland to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (April 2023)
The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Federation for Women and Family Planning submitted updated information to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe regarding Poland’s implementation of three judgments of the European [...]
Joint Letter to the European Commission on Recovery Funding to Support Refugees of the War in Ukraine
In an open joint letter, the Center for Reproductive Rights and partners called on the European Commission to directly support local authorities and civil society and human rights organizations providing for refugees of the war [...]
Call to Action on Ukraine
In a Call to Action, the Center for Reproductive Rights joined more than 90 human rights organizations to urge the European Union, Member State governments, the United Nations, other donor governments and the broader international [...]
Manifesto for an inclusive and comprehensive EU gender-based violence policy
International and European networks and organisations have adopted a manifesto for an inclusive EU law and policy.
NGO letter to EU Ministers on the rule of law and human rights situation in Poland
More than 80 civil society organizations from across Europe call on EU member states to take action on the rule of law crisis in Poland in advance of a hearing by the General Affairs Council [...]
Slovakia joint civil society letter
Letter to the Slovak Parliament on behalf of 110 organizations, including the Center for Reproductive Rights, regarding a draft bill entitled Návrh skupiny poslancov Národnej rady Slovenskej republiky na vydanie zákona o pomoci tehotným ženám, [...]
Submission on Poland to Committee of Ministers (January 2021)
01/29/21--The Center for Reproductive Rights and the Federation for Women and Family Planning submit updated information to the Committee of Ministers regarding Poland’s implementation of three judgments of the European Court of Human Rights regarding access to [...]
Submission on Poland to Committee of Ministers (February 2021)
02/24/21--Submission by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Federation for Women and Family Planning of brief supplemental information to the Communication under Rule 9(2) of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers in the cases [...]
Submission to the European Court of Human Rights regarding B.B. v. Poland (ECHR, App. No. 67171/17)
Submission by the Center for Reproductive Rights to the European Court of Human Rights regarding B.B. v. Poland (ECHR, App. No. 67171/17), 24 September 2020
Joint Submission on Poland to Committee of Ministers (January 2020)
Communication under Rule 9(2) of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers in the cases Tysiąc v. Poland (App. No. 5410/03), R.R. v.Poland (Appl. No. 37617/04) and P. and S. v. Poland (App. No. 57375/08)