Reproductive Rights and Abortion

Europe/Central Asia

October 3, 2018 Dispatches

Once Optimistic, Poland’s Women’s Rights Activists Live in Climate of Fear

Hillary Margolis
Researcher, Women's Rights Division
Americas

September 28, 2018 Dispatches

Escalating Global Effort for Safe, Legal Abortion

Margaret Wurth
Senior Researcher, Children's Rights Division
Brazil

September 24, 2018 Commentary

Presidential Candidates Need to Heed Abortion Debate

Margaret Wurth
Senior Researcher, Children's Rights Division

Published In: Huffington Post Brazil

Videos Watch More

May 22, 2017 Video

Sudan: Obstruction of Aid Denies Women Lifesaving Health Care
February 28, 2017 Video

Video: Trump's New Gag Rule Puts Women's Lives at Risk

Reports More Reports

July 12, 2017

Neglected and Unprotected

The Impact of the Zika Outbreak on Women and Girls in Northeastern Brazil
May 22, 2017

“No Control, No Choice”

Lack of Access to Reproductive Healthcare in Sudan’s Rebel-Held Southern Kordofan
August 23, 2013

Rape Victims as Criminals

Illegal Abortion after Rape in Ecuador

News

September 6, 2018 Letter

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights on Argentina
August 31, 2018 News Release

Guatemala: Reject ‘Life and Family Protection’ Law
August 8, 2018 News Release

Argentina: Pass Law to Legalize Abortion
July 31, 2018 News Release

Brazil: Decriminalize Abortion
July 26, 2018 Dispatches

Brazil Death Signals Need for Abortion Reform

Margaret Wurth
Senior Researcher, Children's Rights Division
July 23, 2018 Commentary

A Move to Undermine Women’s Reproductive Health

Kelly Flannery
NYU School of Law Fellow

Published In: The Hill
July 7, 2018 Dispatches

Changes on US Supreme Court Heighten Importance of Ballot Initiative

Kelly Flannery
NYU School of Law Fellow
June 29, 2018 Statement

Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on the Rights of the Child on El Salvador
June 27, 2018 Dispatches

US Supreme Court Chips Away at Women’s Right to Information

Amanda Klasing
Senior Researcher, Women's Rights Division
June 12, 2018 News Release

Argentina: Decriminalize Abortion
June 12, 2018 Statement

Testimony at the Argentine Congress on decriminalization of abortion
June 5, 2018 Commentary

Nepali Mothers and an Irish Daughter

Tejshree Thapa
Senior South Asia Researcher

Published In: Nepali Times

Daily Brief

October 23, 2018

Two authorities, zero dissent in Palestine; world should reject a Saudi whitewash in Khashoggi case; Trump's threat to transgender rights; US still jailing immigrant children; the long-running struggle of Filipino peasants for land; live discussion of albinism & discrimination later today; and we mourn the loss of David Mepham.