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Rewire.News: We Can’t Let the Trump Administration Dismantle Women’s Rights Around the World Anu Kumar, president and CEO of Ipas “…Access to safe and legal abortion is as relevant to gender equality as women’s equal access to education, employment, adequate food, and housing — it puts women’s and girls’ lives,…
Rewire.News: Trump Administration Fails to Roll Back Support for Landmark Women’s Rights Agreement at United Nations “…According to draft documents acquired by The Guardian, the U.S. delegation came into this week’s [U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)] meetings intending to ‘water down’ commitments to the health and well-being…
The Guardian: U.S. accused of trying to dilute global agreements on women’s rights “U.S. officials in New York are attempting to water down language and remove the word ‘gender’ from documents being negotiated at the U.N., in what is being seen as a threat to international agreements on women’s rights.…
Foreign Policy: At the U.N., America Turns Back the Clock on Women’s Rights “The Trump administration is lining up with less liberal nations such as Saudi Arabia and Malaysia at a major United Nations conference on women this month to roll back international consensus on climate change and migration, while…
Human Rights Watch: Safe Access to Abortion Crucial to Reducing Maternal Mortality in Kenya Agnes Odhiambo, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division at HRW, discusses Kenya’s “Beyond Zero” campaign to eradicate preventable maternal and child mortality in the country, highlighting criticism that the campaign does not address access to…
CNN: U.S. human rights report notes Khashoggi killing, avoids mention of Saudi prince “The State Department’s human rights report for 2018 released Wednesday … makes it explicitly clear that a country’s rights record will not be a determining factor guiding U.S. diplomacy. ‘The policy of this administration is to engage…
Bustle: How Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Stigmatizing Women’s Reproductive Rights Overseas “…[On his first day in office, President Trump] reinstated [and expanded] a rule that prevents U.S. foreign aid [for global health] from going to organizations overseas that so much as mention the word ‘abortion’ to patients. An organization…
Thomson Reuters Foundation: Let’s not turn the clock back on reproductive health and rights Siddharth Chatterjee, U.N. resident coordinator to Kenya “Enabling women to choose when and whether to have children is pivotal to social and economic development. But efforts to give girls and women access to sexual and reproductive…
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health: Maternal and Reproductive Health: How the Global Gag Rule Stifles Free Speech This press release highlights several published or soon-to-be-published articles by researchers in the Global Health Justice and Governance program (GHJG) at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, detailing the…
Washington Post: The 11-year-old Argentine girl is not alone. Latin America’s abortion laws are a form of torture. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International “…Latin America authorities have shown alarming negligence in failing to protect women and girls from gender-based violence. Instead of supporting survivors, they frequently revictimize them…
