CRR Annual Report 2009 - Center for Reproductive Rights

INTRODUCTION
We are unafraid to take on seemingly
intractable challenges—or break
new ground. All our work converges
on one point: building a robust body
of law that will guarantee safe and
accessible reproductive healthcare
and, with it, every woman’s equality
and human rights.
Since its inception, the Center for
Reproductive Rights has catalyzed the
power of law and moral force of human
rights standards to attain reproductive
self-determination for women around the
world. Our pioneering litigation, tireless
legal advocacy, and savvy human rights
strategies both safeguard the gains we
have already made and revolutionize
how courts and lawmakers understand
reproductive health and rights.
The stakes are high: as the stories
in the following pages make clear,
women’s very dignity and lives depend
on their ability to obtain the full range
of reproductive healthcare services,
while opponents of reproductive selfdetermination
are unrelenting.
Yet we are unafraid to take on seemingly
intractable challenges—or break new
ground. All our work converges on one
point: building a robust body of law
that will guarantee safe and accessible
reproductive healthcare and, with it,
every woman’s equality and human rights.
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