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Fact Sheet: SRHR in CERD’s General Recommendation on Racial Discrimination and the Right to Health
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination's General Recommendation No. 37.
Las nuevas Directrices sobre la atención para el Aborto de la OMS: Lo más destacado de sus Recomendaciones Legislación y Políticas
Esta hoja informativa, emitida por el Centro de Derechos Reproductivos, analiza los aspectos más destacados de las recomendaciones de leyes y políticas de la OMS de su nueva Guía de atención del aborto emitida en [...]
Fact Sheet: Law and Policy Recommendations of WHO’s New Abortion Guideline
Highlights of law and policy recommendations from WHO's new Abortion Guideline.
They Are Girls: SRHR Violations in Latin America and the Caribbean
Background The Latin America and Caribbean region is the only one in the world where the number of girls under 15 giving birth continues to rise. Access to sexual and reproductive health services can save [...]
Whelan v. Ireland: Ireland Must Reform its Abortion Law to Prevent Violations of Women’s Human Rights
In June 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled for the second time that by prohibiting and criminalizing abortion, Ireland violated a woman’s fundamental human rights. In the case of Whelan v. Ireland, the [...]
Fact Sheet: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Conflict
Women and girls in conflict and post-conflict settings face increased risks of sexual violence and urgently need sexual and reproductive healthcare services, such as obstetric and antenatal care for pregnant women, access to contraceptive information [...]
Miscarriage of Justice: The Impact of El Salvador’s Total Abortion Ban (Advocacy Brief)
Miscarriage of Justice: The Impact of El Salvador’s Total Abortion Ban (Advocacy Brief)
Mellet v. Ireland: Ireland must legalize abortion to end violations of women’s human rights
In June 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a groundbreaking decision in the case of Mellet v. Ireland. The Committee held that by prohibiting and criminalizing abortion, and thereby preventing Ms. Mellet from [...]
Accountability for Discrimination Against Women in the Philippines: Key Findings and Recommendations from the CEDAW Committee’s Special Inquiry on Reproductive Rights
A 2007 report by the Center documenting human rights violations associated with Executive Order 003 became the basis for a special inquiry convened by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women [...]
Universal Periodic Review Fact Sheet: Discrimination Against Immigrants in Access to Health Care, Including Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Information
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Reproductive Rights, Substantive Equality and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A briefing by the Center for Reproductive Rights
The Convention on the Rights of the Child strongly protects children’s right to access sexual and reproductive health services and their rights to substantive equality and nondiscrimination. This fact sheet examines the mutually reinforcing relationship [...]
Alyne v. Brazil: Case of Alyne da Silva Pimentel Teixeira (“Alyne”) v. Brazil
Alyne, a 28-year-old Afro-Brazilian woman, died of complications resulting from pregnancy after a private and then a public health center denied her quality maternal health care. Brazil's maternal mortality rates are disproportionately high for a [...]
Alyne v. Brazil: Case of Alyne da Silva Pimentel Teixeira (“Alyne”) v. Brazil
Alyne, una Afro-Brasilera de 28 años murió por complicaciones de un embarazo después de que un centro de salud privado y luego un centro de salud público le negaran atención de calidad de salud materna. [...]
Reproductive Rights and Torture or Ill-Treatment: A briefing by the Center for Reproductive Rights
For over a decade, the UN Committee against Torture (CAT Committee) has recognized some reproductive rights violations as forms of torture or ill-treatment and called on states to change laws, policies, and practices that restrict access [...]
Human Rights at the Core of Sustainable and Just Development
The Center for Reproductive Rights took part in a joint civil society event at the UN Headquarters in New York on December 13, 2013 titled: Human Rights at the Core of Sustainable and Just Development, [...]
ICPD and Human Rights: 20 Years of Advancing Reproductive Rights though UN Treaty Bodies and Legal Reform
The ICPD and Human Rights fact sheets examine the progress states have made over the past twenty years fulfilling the commitments made in the ICPD Programme of Action. They highlight the extensive developments in international [...]
Fact Sheet: Nepal Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision Upholding the Right to Abortion
The Center has authored a new fact sheet on an important decision from the Supreme Court of Nepal in the case of Lakshmi Dhikta v. Nepal that upholds a woman’s right to abortion. This case [...]
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