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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 guaranteed for all. Despite significant progress in advancing SRHR within EU law and policy in recent years, these protections remain […]

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 Union, including intersectional and multiple forms of discrimination in all aspects of their lives.[1] In the current climate, it is […]

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 to align Poland’s abortion laws with European and international norms and ensure the health and rights of women and girls […]

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. This week, EU Member States formally endorsed the agreement reached between the EU institutions on a new EU Directive on violence […]

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.

European Parliament Calls on U.S. to Protect Abortion Rights

Resolution expresses grave concern about the consequences to women’s rights if the U.S. Supreme Court were to revoke the constitutional right to abortion.

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.

In Poland, “Women Are Paying A High Price For The Rule Of Law Crisis”

France24 reported on a top European court’s decision allowing the European Union to block funds to member states that don’t follow EU laws. Poland, which has regressed on human rights–including reproductive rights–in recent years, is at risk of losing EU funding because of the ruling. The Center’s Regional Director for Europe, Leah Hoctor, told France24, […]