CRR Annual Report 2009 - Center for Reproductive Rights

Selected Conferences
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Conferences & Roundtables
Abortion Care Network Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, March 21 – 23, 2009
At this meeting of independent abortion providers
from across the United States, Center attorneys
discussed legal remedies for anti-choice harassment,
legislative trends, and how the human rights framework
can reduce stigma against abortion providers.
Women’s Human Rights Training Institute
Bulgaria, April 23 – 30 and November 12 – 17, 2009
The Women’s Human Rights Training Institute—a
highly successful program created by the Center and
its partners the Network of East West Women and
the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation—trains
lawyers in East and Central Europe to bring women’s
rights and reproductive rights cases to national courts
and the European Court of Human Rights. We convened
the fourth and final session of the second
institute in April and kicked off the third institute in
November.
National Abortion Federation
Annual Meeting
Portland, Oregon, April 26 – 27, 2009
Abortion providers from across the United States and
Canada gathered at this meeting, where the Center’s
attorneys presented on current litigation, legislative
trends, new developments in abortion care, and the
privacy of patient medical records.
Seminar on Maternal Mortality and Human
Rights
São Paulo, Brazil, May 27, 2009
This seminar—which we co-organized with the Center
for Citizenship and Reproduction—brought together
Brazilian and international experts to analyze why
programs and policies against maternal mortality have
been ineffective in Brazil. The findings are informing
our advocacy efforts around a pending case we have
against Brazil over the death of a young pregnant
woman who was denied timely medical care.
Women Human Rights Defenders International
Coalition: Strategic Meeting with the UN and
the African Commission Special Rapporteurs
on Human Rights Defenders
Geneva, Switzerland, June 18, 2009
Increasing conservatism at the United Nations and in
government circles, along with a backlash against human
rights, has put women human rights defenders
at risk. At this special meeting, women’s rights activists
discussed their concerns with Margaret Sekaggya,
the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders,
and Reine Alapini-Gansou, the Special Rapporteur
on Human Rights Defenders for the African
Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Center
President Nancy Northup presented on “Defending
the Defenders of Sexual Rights and Reproductive
Rights.”
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