Foreign Policy: How a U.N. Bid to Prevent Sexual Violence Turned Into a Spat Over Abortion “The Trump administration pressured Germany into watering down a United Nations resolution aimed at preventing rape in conflict situations, forcing it to remove language on sexual and reproductive health that key Trump administration officials…

U.S. Department of State’s “DipNote”: Earth Day Celebrations Include Recognizing Women’s Role in Sustaining a Healthier Planet In recognition of Earth Day, which takes place annually on April 22, Julia Doyle, who serves in the Office of Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State, discusses the “role women…

Al Jazeera: U.N. raises Libya aid alarm as Tripoli clashes intensify (4/22). The BMJ: Breast ironing (Robinson, 4/23). Business Live: Research buzzes along but science is still scratching the surface of beating malaria (Oliver, 4/23). Devex: Q&A: How Gavi can adapt to tackle equity and conflict (Igoe, 4/23). Devex: Q&A:…

CNN: U.S. threatens to veto U.N. resolution on helping rape victims, over mentions of reproductive health “The U.S. delegation to the United Nations has threatened to veto a resolution aiming to prevent rape as a weapon of war and to help its victims, because the resolution contains language about ‘sexual…

Woodrow Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program’s “New Security Beat”: ICPD at 25: Unfinished Business Points to Unmet Needs Nazra Amin, intern at the Wilson Center, discusses remarks from panelists at a recent Wilson Center event recognizing the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).…

Project Syndicate: How Abortion Hypocrisy Kills Women Patricia Nudi Orawo, advocacy officer at the Kisumu Medical and Education Trust “…If we want to reduce demand for abortion services, we must recognize that it is often the culmination of a series of systemic failures that begin during childhood, when a comprehensive…

Washington Post: Sexual violence is rife in war zones. We must take action. Heiko Maas, foreign minister of Germany, and Angelina Jolie, co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative “…[T]oday, decades of gradual progress in expanding human rights and entrenching international law are threatened by a rising tide…

NPR: A Promising Anti-HIV Drug Poses A Dilemma “…[A new study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine] estimated what could happen if millions of poor HIV-positive African women of child-bearing age were given the new, more effective drug [that in a separate study was associated with an…

Xinhua News: U.N. forum reviews implementation of 2030 agenda in Africa “The 5th session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) kicked off Wednesday in the Moroccan city of Marrakech to review the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. The two-day forum is meant…

CIDRAP News: Ebola infects 17 more in DRC outbreak (Schnirring, 4/17). The Guardian: Teenage girls most at risk amid rising sexual violence in El Salvador — report (Murray, 4/17). SciDev.Net: ‘Climate change threatens 19 million Bangladeshi kids’ (Shaikh, 4/18). Thomson Reuters Foundation: Donkeys deliver vaccines in Mali as diseases spike…