Huffington Post: Trump Sends Anti-Birth Control Delegates To U.N. Commission On Women “An estimated 225 million women in the world who want to avoid pregnancy lack access to safe and reliable contraceptives. But President Donald Trump appointed two delegates to the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on the…

Foreign Policy: If Trump Wants to End Legal Abortion, He’s Going to Have to Go Through Holland First “Lilianne Ploumen didn’t intend to be the face of the European resistance to Donald Trump. But the headlines she triggered by her efforts to counter one of Trump’s first decisions in the…

European Parliament News: U.S. “global gag” anti-abortion rule a major setback for women’s health, say MEPs “Political group speakers reacted to President Donald Trump’s reinstatement of the ‘global gag’ rule in a debate with E.U. humanitarian aid Commissioner Christos Stylianides on Tuesday. … Stylianides expressed concern over the presidential memorandum…

Doctors Without Borders/Medium: Is the Global Gag Rule Truly Pro-Life? Aerlyn Pfeil, midwife and a member of the Médecins Sans Frontières-USA board of directors, discusses the potential impacts of the Mexico City policy on women’s health worldwide, writing, “The [global gag rule] is not saving lives; it plays politics with…

Devex: Q&A: Senator Shaheen on her fight to repeal the ‘global gag rule’ permanently “Senator Jeanne Shaheen is challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘global gag rule’ in Congress with the Global Health, Empowerment and Rights (HER) Act, which seeks to permanently repeal the order, as NGOs and activists warn of…

The Guardian: U.S. may go cheek by jowl with women’s rights abusers at U.N. gender talks “U.S. negotiators at this week’s U.N. Commission on the Status of Women could find themselves standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the world’s worst violators of women’s rights, activists have warned. … In…

The Lancet Global Health: Trump’s “global gag rule”: implications for human rights and global health Jerome A. Singh, head of ethics and law at the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) and adjunct professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health Sciences and the…

Financial Times: FT Health: Who for the WHO? The latest issue of the Financial Times’ weekly global health newsletter features an article discussing the WHO director general election and an interview with Lilianne Ploumen, Dutch minister for foreign trade and development co-operation who launched the She Decides initiative (Jack, 3/10).

Toronto Sun: The trouble with Trump and the gag rule Farzana Hassan, columnist at the Toronto Sun “…I object to [the Mexico City policy] despite being a long-time advocate of the sanctity of human life even at its earliest and most fragile. The problems of [women in developing countries] are…

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: USAID amends guidelines with first phase of “global gag rule” — just in time for International Women’s Day! Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses USAID’s publication of guidance on the reinstated Mexico City policy; concern among NGOs about the…