Kaiser Family Foundation Explainer Provides Overview, History Of UNFPA Funding & Kemp-Kasten Amendment

Kaiser Family Foundation: UNFPA Funding & Kemp-Kasten: An Explainer
On March 30, the Trump administration announced that it would withhold FY 2017 funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the lead U.N. agency focused on global population and reproductive health, citing the Kemp-Kasten amendment in its decision. A new explainer from the Kaiser Family Foundation provides an overview of the history and application of this provision on global family planning funds (4/17).

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