Inter Press Service: E.U. Urged to Ban Early & Forced Child Marriages Rangita de Silva de Alwis, associate dean of international affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and adviser to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Fund “Something historic was initiated at the European Development Days (EDD) in early…

The Hill: We will not go back on women’s health and rights U.S. Reps. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee; Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), and Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), all members of the House Appropriations Committee “…The Trump administration has done more to roll back…

Inter Press Service: Food Sustainability, Migration, Nutrition and Women Enrique Yeves, director of communications for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization “…If we channel development assistance in an integrated way, rather than towards specific sectors, we are more likely to achieve sustainable changes — these in turn can ease the…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Accountability and Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence in Conflict Stephanie Mulhern Ogorzalek, senior policy adviser in the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, discusses sexual violence in conflict, writing, “The Department of State is working to strengthen accountability, improve access to justice for…

Washington Post: Talking about overpopulation is still taboo. That has to change. Frances Kissling, president of the Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy; Jotham Musinguzi, director general of Uganda’s National Population Council; and Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp professor of bioethics at Princeton University “…Both feminists and population stabilization…

Northwestern University Law Review: Challenging the Rhetorical Gag and Trap: Reproductive Capacities, Rights, and the Helms Amendment Michele Goodwin, chancellor’s professor and director of the Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy at the University of California, Irvine, examines the Helms amendment and the Mexico City policy from a legal…

CNN: Would-be Indian child bride fights back and helps others (Ahuja, 6/18). Devex: How family planning can help save cheetahs (Edwards, 6/18). Devex: Alarm bells sounded over new E.U. aid instrument proposals (Chadwick, 6/15). Devex: DRC bordering countries begin Ebola preparedness training (Roby, 6/15). New York Times: Video Game Addiction…

Financial Times: Argentina’s lower house of Congress approves abortion bill “Argentina’s lower house of Congress narrowly approved a bill to decriminalize abortion on Thursday, in a move that could put the home of Pope Francis at the vanguard of a region that has some of the world’s most restrictive abortion…

The Hill: For safety and security in Niger, solutions must flow upstream Malcolm Potts and Alisha Graves, co-founders of the OASIS (Organizing to Advance Solutions in the Sahel) Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley; and Serge Michailof, former director of operations for the French Development Agency “…There are achievable…

Aidspan: Global Fund Observer Aidspan, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, published Issue 337 of the ‘Global Fund Observer.’ The newsletter includes articles on various topics, including the role of governments and partners in enabling the Global Fund to address quality of service…