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The US Raises Its UN Profile, but Not Its Support

January 25, 2020 
by Barbara Crossette
Kelley Currie
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 move doesn’t mean that the US is increasing support for the organization, of course, or …

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Global Abortion Laws, Split on a Clear North-South Divide

July 17, 2019 
by Barbara Crossette
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 developing countries offers few or no reproductive choices or respect for reproductive rights. The issue …

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US Abortion Restrictions Violate Women’s Human Rights

March 14, 2019 
by Serra Sippel and Akila Radhakrishnan
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 frameworks guard against these violations and hold the US and other countries accountable. The International …

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A New Commission to Focus on Women’s Rights Gaps in the Global Goals

January 11, 2016 
by Barbara Crossette
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 sexual and reproductive health and rights. The initiative, sponsored by the London-based journal The Lancet …

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US Policy Denies Emergency Abortion Globally for War Rape Victims

July 30, 2015 
by Barbara Crossette
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 landmark 1961 United States Foreign Assistance Act banning any use of US funds to support …

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As Abortion Rights Expand in Some Regions, Others Absorb Setbacks

September 21, 2014 
by Dulcie Leimbach
  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 rights with equal intensity by imposing tighter restrictions. The issue of abortion, embedded in the …

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