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- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2021
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The Biden administration’s budget proposals for 2022 could erase many of the constrictions on global health aid imposed during the Trump years or earlier Republican administrations. But the sweeping developments depend on what happens in the Congressional debate on federal…
- Categories: UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • February 25, 2020
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Whether or not Donald Trump will be re-elected president on Nov. 3, a tough debate is likely to begin soon in the United States Congress over the national budget for the unpredictable year ahead. Reproductive health issues rank high…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 14, 2020
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In health care, political participation, economic advancement, personal safety and justice, women across the world may be advancing on some fronts in various places. At the start of a new decade, however, the realities on a global scale are…
- Categories: Health and Population, Take a Look, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 8, 2019
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For the third year, the Trump administration and its Republican allies in the United States Congress are refusing to abandon their harsh restrictions on aid to health programs for women around the world. Instead, all amendments calling for a…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 26, 2019
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“I am pro-life, I believe that all human life is sacred, and that human life begins at conception,” Andrew Bremberg told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently. Asked if rape victims should have access to abortion, he…
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 4, 2019
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In an audacious move that could be the capstone of the Trump administration’s campaign to reverse decades of American support for human rights globally, the State Department is creating a separate new commission to advise Secretary of State Mike…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 28, 2019
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With a fierce national budget battle looming in the United States Congress, Democrats on a key committee have formally proposed legislation overturning Trump policies that deny millions of women and girls in developing countries access to vital reproductive health…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • April 2, 2019
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Here’s how the United States government marked the 2019 monthlong celebration of the world’s women in March: Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got off to an early start on March 13Â by releasing the State Department’s annual…
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Opinion by Serra Sippel and Akila Radhakrishnan
- • March 14, 2019
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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, OPINIONS, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 25, 2018
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In a rare act of legislative sabotage, the Trump administration’s plan to starve international family planning of funds has been killed for now as committees in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate slipped hundreds of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, LGBT, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 30, 2015
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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
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