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Son Niñas: Violaciones a los Derechos Reproductivos en América Latina y el Caribe

Abortion, Adolescent SRHR,Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua,Reporting on Rights,Publications

Innovative litigation filed against three countries to protect girls’ rights in Latin America

Geneva (PRESS RELEASE) – Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Global, Mujeres Transformando el Mundo Guatemala (MTM), Observatorio en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva Guatemala (OSAR), Surkuna Ecuador, Fundación Desafío and Asociación de Mujeres Axayacatl filed a lawsuit with the United Nations Human Rights Committee [...]

Abortion,Latin America & Caribbean, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua,In the Courts,News

Center for Reproductive Rights Opens New Regional Office in Colombia

(PRESS RELEASE) Today, the Center for Reproductive Rights announced the opening of its new regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Bogotá, Colombia. The Center has worked in the region for fifteen years, [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Funding for Reproductive Healthcare, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Maternal Mortality,Latin America & Caribbean, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World, Reporting on Rights

CRR in the Field: Alejandra Cárdenas

Since 1992, the Center's innovative legal work has fundamentally transformed the landscape of reproductive health and rights worldwide, and has already strengthened laws and policies in more than 50 countries. CRR in the Field is [...]

Abortion, Legal Protections, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Coercive Policies, Maternal Mortality,Latin America & Caribbean, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Accountability Bodies,Engaging Policymakers, Around the World, Reporting on Rights,News

Concluding Observations: Nicaragua, Convention on the Rights of the Child

Abortion, Anti-Choice Harassment, Legal Restrictions,Latin America & Caribbean, Nicaragua, Accountability Bodies, United Nations,At the United Nations, Engaging Policymakers, Around the World,Documents

UN Urges Governments to Respect Reproductive Rights

12.27.10 - This fall, three UN treaty monitoring bodies urged the governments of Ecuador, Uganda and Nicaragua to take steps to promote, protect and fulfill reproductiv  rights. The treaty bodies made these powerful recommendations largely [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Contraception, Legal Restrictions, Maternal Health, Access to Quality Care, Maternal Mortality,Africa, Uganda, Latin America & Caribbean, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Accountability Bodies, United Nations,At the United Nations, Engaging Policymakers, Around the World, Reporting on Rights,News

UN to Nicaragua: Youth Have the Right to Contraception and Safe Abortion

This week, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child  (CRC) sent a clear and urgent message to Nicaragua: adolescents must have access to safe, legal, and confidential sexual and reproductive health services, [...]

Abortion, Adolescent SRHR, Contraception,Latin America & Caribbean, Nicaragua,At the United Nations,News

Shadow Letter on Nicaragua to the Committee on the Rights of the Child

In September, the Center submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the situation of sexual and reproductive rights of children and adolescents in Nicaragua.  Nicaragua is reporting to [...]

Abortion, Adolescent SRHR, Sex Education, Contraception, Maternal Health,Latin America & Caribbean, Nicaragua,At the United Nations,Documents

Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.

Civil Society in Central America, Mexico and the Spanish-Speaking Carribean Meet with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

(Guatemala City - Guatemala, March 23) United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Anand Grover, visited Guatemala City on March 22 and 23 [...]

Abortion, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality,Latin America & Caribbean, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Accountability Bodies, United Nations,At the United Nations,News

Challenge to Abortion Law in Nicaragua / Amici (Supreme Court of Nicaragua)

In May 2007, The Center for Reproductive Rights and Yale University's Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic submitted a joint friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court of Nicaragua.Country/Region: , Nicaragua/LACCenter Attorney(s): , Lilian Sepúlveda [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions,Latin America & Caribbean, Nicaragua,In the Courts,Case

Shadow Letter to CESCR on Nicaragua (2008)

The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for its review of Nicaragua during its 41st Session in November 2008. The letter discusses Nicaragua's complete [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality,Latin America & Caribbean, Nicaragua,At the United Nations, Reporting on Rights,Documents

Shadow Letter to UN HRC on Nicaragua (2008)

The Center for Reproductive Rights submitted a shadow letter to the Human Rights Committee for its review of Nicaragua during its 94th Session in October 2008. The letter discusses Nicaragua's complete ban on abortion and [...]

Abortion, Legal Restrictions, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality,Latin America & Caribbean, Nicaragua,At the United Nations, Reporting on Rights,Documents

Center for Reproductive Rights Statement on Senate’s Vote to Repeal the Global Gag Rule

The Center for Reproductive Rights calls on President Bush to sign the bill repealing the Global Gag Rule. The President has repeatedly stated his commitment to cultivating democracy abroad and should therefore, take this opportunity [...]

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Reproductive rights are human rights.

Help us ensure that every government around the world guarantees them.