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Center’s Cases at the UN Seek New Human Rights Standard to Ensure Safe Abortion and Protections for Sexual Abuse Survivors

“They are girls, not mothers” cases against Ecuador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua—brought on behalf of four girls denied access to abortion and other reproductive services—could lead to SRHR protections throughout Latin America and across the world.

New UN Report: Polish Abortion Law Violates Human Rights

A comprehensive investigation reveals the devastating consequences of Poland's restrictive abortion law on women's health and bodily autonomy, requiring urgent legal reform.

Commission on Population and Development Side Event: Celebrating ICPD’s Impact on Choice and Autonomy

Watch online this April 30 event about the impact of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), being held at UN Headquarters during the 57th Session of the CPD.

Case at United Nations Human Rights Committee Seeks to Ensure Access to Abortion in Honduras

After becoming pregnant as a result of rape, an indigenous woman and human rights defender was denied emergency contraception and abortion care and was forced to give birth against her will.

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

UN Event to Discuss the Weaponization of Disinformation Against Women

Register for this October 13 event—being held both in-person and online—featuring the Center's Martin Onyango, Associate Director of Legal Strategies for Africa.

The Center Engages with Policymakers Around the World at UN General Assembly Meetings

The Center’s global delegation promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights issues at the UNGA’s High-Level Week events.

‘I now realize that I am not guilty, that I am just another victim’

In a piece for El País, Fátima, a Guatemalan survivor of sexual violence, tells her story and explains her decision to seek justice by joining a Center case. Fátima’s case against Guatemala is one of four that the Center brought to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 2019 as part of a strategy called […]

Center Joins in Commemorating International Women’s Day at the United Nations

Center leaders speak at sessions of the UN Human Rights Council and Commission on the Status of Women.

UN Side Event: Technology and the Future of Gender Equality and SRHR

Watch this March 8 panel being held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.