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The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) is a global legal advocacy organization, headquartered in New York City, [6] that seeks to advance reproductive rights, such as abortion. The organization's stated mission is to "use the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect ...
Janet Benshoof (May 10, 1947 – December 18, 2017) was an American human rights lawyer and President and Founder of the Global Justice Center. [1] [2] She founded the Center for Reproductive Rights, the world's first international human rights organization focused on reproductive choice and equality.
Northup was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1960 and grew up in Texas, California and New York. She graduated from Allendale Columbia School in Rochester, New York. [4] She then graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1981; and from Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar and managing editor of the Columbia Law Review.
Rock for Choice, a series of benefit concerts to allow musicians to support abortion-rights movements in the US and Canada; SisterSong, a national activist organization dedicated to reproductive justice for women of color; URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, a reproductive rights and justice non-profit organization (formerly named ...
According to data released by the Pew Research Center, 81 percent of voters said the economy was their top issue, followed by 65 percent who said the same about health care. Fifty one percent said ...
In 1992, six national women of color organizations came together seeking to increase their impact on the mainstream women's rights/pro-choice movement and on US policy: Asians and Pacific Islanders for Choice, National Black Women's Health Project, National Latina Health Organization, Latina Roundtable on Health and Reproductive Rights, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and Native ...
Beginning in 2000, the DOE instituted a number of innovative programs for teacher recruitment, including the New York City Teaching Fellows, [31] the TOP Scholars Program, and initiatives to bring foreign teachers (primarily from Eastern Europe) to teach in the city's schools. Housing subsidies are in place for experienced teachers who relocate ...
The World Health Organization defines reproductive rights as follows: Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right of all couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number, spacing and timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so, and the right to attain the highest standard of ...