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06.27.17 - One year ago, in June 2016, the Center for Reproductive Rights won the most significant abortion-access case at the Supreme Court in decades. The landmark Whole Woman’s Health v.…

Cruel and Inhuman

06.13.17 - Every year, as a result of Ireland’s abortion laws, thousands of women in the country must travel abroad to obtain legal abortion services…

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley Pays Lip Service To Human Rights While Trump Administration Continues To Violate Them

06.07.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) On Tuesday Nikki Haley, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, spoke in Geneva, Switzerland, before the Human Rights Council—the principal body at the U.N. that promotes and protects human rights for all—where she declared that the United States is committed to…

Trump Administration Guts Funding to United Nations Population Fund

04.04.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) This week the U.S.…

Salvadoran Woman Wrongfully Imprisoned Shares Her Story with U.N. Committee

02.13.17 - (PRESS RELEASE) A Salvadoran woman who was wrongfully imprisoned after an obstetric emergency and later absolved and released in 2015 spoke to a United Nations committee about the mistreatment of pregnant women in El Salvador and the human rights abuses resulting from the country’s…

U.N. General Assembly Adopts Resolution to End Child, Early, and Forced Marriage Worldwide

12.19.16 - (PRESS RELEASE) Today the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) reaffirmed its commitment to eliminating child, early and forced marriage globally with a new resolution that calls on states to strengthen laws and policies to protect women and girls from this harmful practice…

Irish Government to Provide Monetary Reparations Following Landmark United Nations Abortion Case

11.30.16 - (PRESS RELEASE) The Irish government intends to give compensation to Amanda Mellet following a landmark decision from the United Nations Human Rights Committee recognizing that…

Uganda Rejects Calls to Amend Its Abortion Law During U.N. Human Rights Council Review

11.15.16 - (PRESS RELEASE) The government of Uganda rejected recommendations last week to revise its abortion legislation…

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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…