UN Side Event: The Impacts of Poverty and Criminalization on Abortion Access
Watch online this March 12 event being held at UN Headquarters during the 68th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
CSW 68: The Center at the UN Commission on the Status of Women
CSW 68: Center Events at the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2024
U.S. Repro Watch, March 8
Major pharmacies to dispense abortion pills, Alabama scrambles to address alarming IVF ruling, and other news on U.S. reproductive rights.
Honoring International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day—and every day—the Center is working to build a world where every person participates with dignity as an equal member of society, regardless of gender.
Joint Statement by CSOs Working on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Challenging Utterances Undermining the Right to Access Education for Pregnant Learners in Kenya
“The right to education… is an essential right for children, which has a long-lasting effect on the well-being of children. Education determines the future of children… The obligation of States to respect the right to [...]
Corporate Engagement
The Center works with companies and business leaders to advance laws and policies that promote access to reliable reproductive healthcare.
Hawaiʻi Midwifery Litigation
Kahoʻohanohano v. State of Hawaiʻi
Lawsuit asks the court to block a midwifery restriction law to restore access to safe, respectful, and culturally informed maternal care in Hawai‘i communities.
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.
Victory in Kenya: Court of Appeal Affirms Right to Respectful Maternal Health Care
Court issues sweeping decision in Center’s case of pregnant woman physically and verbally abused by hospital staff and left to deliver on a concrete floor.
‘Medical colonialism’: midwives sue Hawaii over law regulating Native birth workers
The Guardian
In this piece by the Guardian, Center plaintiff Kiʻi Kahoʻohanohano and Senior Staff Attorney Hillary Schneller discuss a new case seeking to protect midwifery care in Hawaiʻi.
Defending Reproductive Autonomy: Center Sues Hawaiʻi to Protect Midwifery Care
Lawsuit asks state court to block a midwifery restriction law to restore access to safe, respectful, and culturally informed maternal care in Hawaiʻi communities.
Pregnant Woman Forced to Deliver on Hospital Floor Wins Appeal in Landmark Case
Affirming the Right to Respectful Maternal Health Care in Kenya
Reproductive rights are human rights.
Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.