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Rights of the Child in Humanitarian Settings: A Missed Opportunity

03.26.18 - The Center for Reproductive Rights and its international partners produced a statement on the protection of the rights of the child in humanitarian situations for the 37th session of the Human Rights Council…

Over 200 Sexual Reproductive Right's NGOs Call for Polish Parliament to Protect Women’s Health and Rights

03.22.18 - Poland’s Parliament should listen to the voices of women across Poland and reject a regressive legislative proposal that would erode reproductive rights, over 200 human and women’s rights groups from across the globe said in

Breaking Ground 2018: Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive Rights

02.13.18 - Breaking Ground 2018: Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive Rights summarizes the jurisprudence from United Nations treaty monitoring bodies (TMBs) on reproductive rights, particularly the standards on reproductive health information and contraception, maternal health care, and…

Irish Parliamentary Committee Recommends Abortion Law Reform

12.13.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) Today the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution—a select…

Annual Report 2017

12.12.17 - As we mark our 25th anniversary, the Center for Reproductive Rights celebrates the trails we have blazed and the progress we have made toward building a world where reproductive rights are recognized and respected as fundamental human rights.
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Council of Europe Commissioner Launches New Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Europe

12.05.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe—the main human rights watchdog for the continent—released a new report on women’s sexual and…

New Report: Roma Women Experience Discrimination, Receive Poor Reproductive Health Care In Slovakia

11.27.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) Roma women living in Slovakia report facing discrimination, segregation and abuse when obtaining reproductive health services, according to a new report from the Center for Reproductive Rights and Slovak organization Center for Civil and Human Rights (Poradňa)…

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Our Work in Focus

Al Jazeera: Mother of Ecuadorian girl raped by vice principal testifies in Washington, DC
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing in the case of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín, an Ecuadorian teenager who was sexually abused repeatedly by her school’s vice-principal for two years. Petita Albarracín, Paola’s mother, told the Commission about her…