abortion rights
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 31, 2021
Fulfilling promises that he made in his 2020 election campaign, President Joe Biden restored United States contributions to the United Nations Population Fund on Jan. 28. Through another executive order, he also overturned crippling US aid restrictions worldwide that…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 25, 2020
The naming of Jonathan Moore, a senior United States Foreign Service officer, to the position of Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, signals that in the United Nations’ 75th year, the Trump administration is getting serious. The…
- Categories: Gender Violence, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 17, 2019
The most liberal laws on abortion are found in the richest industrial countries. Does that matter? Advocates for reproductive health care say yes, because the abortion gap is often a bellwether indicating that health care for women in many…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Take a Look
- Serra Sippel and Akila Radhakrishnan
- • March 14, 2019
Every year, 25 million women across the world are forced to obtain unsafe abortions. The United States, through its foreign policy, is deeply complicit in the violation of these women’s right to life and equality under international law. International human-rights…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, WORLDVIEWS
- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • March 25, 2017
The annual women’s conference at the United Nations may have encountered severe weather on its second day, when a blizzard swept through the region and events had to be canceled at the UN, but the real storm originated with…
- Categories: US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 11, 2016
A respected medical journal and a leading American population research and policy organization have teamed up to create a commission to fill gaps and turn vague promises in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into real gains for women’s…
- Categories: Health and Population, LGBT, SDGs, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 30, 2015
In 1973, Jesse Helms, a newly elected United States senator and an ideologue contemptuous of the United Nations, dismissive of international treaties and completely devoid of compassion for the world’s poor, put his name on an amendment to the…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 21, 2014
Even as more countries have expanded the rights of women to safe, legal abortions in the last 20 years, some countries — particularly certain areas in the United States and in Central America — have rolled back such…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
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