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Center for Reproductive Rights Joins Global Leaders and Activists at U.N. Generation Equality Forum
Center presents session on adolescent SRHR and bodily autonomy at leading global gathering.
Center presents session on adolescent SRHR and bodily autonomy at leading global gathering.
The Center for Reproductive Rights and its partners will hold an interactive and intergenerational discussion on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) at the Generation Equality Forum, a major global event organized by UN Women.
The Center for Reproductve Rights worked for several years to support the efforts of women and civil society organizations in Ireland to secure reform of Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion law. Their decades of efforts culminated in 2018 when the Irish electorate voted by a resounding majority to remove the prohibition on abortion and Irish law […]
The Biden-Harris administration took a significant step forward last week in reversing the Trump administration’s harmful policies undermining gender equity and equality when it committed to promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and around the world. The commitment, made March 17 before the UN Human Rights Council, was in response to recommendations made at the U.S.’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in November. The UPR is a comprehensive human rights review conducted by U.N. […]
On March 17, 2021, the Center for Reproductive Rights and co-sponsoring organizations made remarks at the UN Human Rights Council commending the United States for supporting recommendations related to sexual and reproductive rights received in the course of its 3rd Universal Periodic Review, and urging robust implementation of the recommendations. The Center for Reproductive Rights […]
The Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC), Gender and Development Network (GADNet), and Center for Reproductive Rights prepared this letter to assist the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee) in its review of the compliance of the Government of Cambodia (State party) with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against […]
Ensuring rights-based accountability for the sexual and reproductive health and rights of refugee and host community women and girls affected by crisis in northern Uganda The Center for Reproductive Rights and CARE International presented this submission to the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls for their report on sexual and reproductive health and rights […]
Next month, the Biden administration has a unique opportunity on the global stage to commit itself to protecting and promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights when it appears at the United Nations Human Rights Council to adopt the report from the U.S.’s Third Universal Periodic Review (UPR). In a recent article for Just Security, […]
The Center extensively engages at the Human Rights Council to amplify the voices and priorities of our national partners at the global level and to ensure that the strongest human rights standards, including those pertaining to sexual and reproductive health and rights, are reflected in its resolutions. Ensuring political will and meaningful commitments to gender […]
The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors state compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by 173 countries, issued a General Comment to states on the interpretation of Article 6 of the Covenant, the right to life, providing guidance on how to implement its obligations under this Article. The Center led […]