Devex Examines Sexual, Reproductive Health NGOs Caught Between Donors Due To Mexico City Policy

Devex: Forced to choose between U.S. and Swedish funding, sexual health NGOs speak out
“Sexual and reproductive health and rights NGOs struggling to deliver services in the wake of the United States ‘global gag rule’ have spent a year caught between donors, after the Swedish aid agency, a key funder of sexual and reproductive health and rights, said it could not support organizations that go along with the rule. That decision, activists told Devex, is unintentionally making life harder for them on the ground…” (Edwards, 9/12).

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