Guttmacher Institute
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 18, 2018
There has yet to be a decision in United States Congress on what funds for global women’s health, if any, will survive in the current 2018 national budget, a decision that is nearly six months overdue. But Donald Trump…
- Categories: Health and Population, Humanitarian Aid, Poverty, Take a Look, US Foreign Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 27, 2017
It will soon be two years since the United Nations adopted a new 15-year development policy encapsulated in the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This sprawling, ambitious agenda was designed partly to address the shortcomings of the Millennium Goals, the…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Health and Population, SDGs, Take a Look, US Foreign Relations
- 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
- John Bongaarts
- • November 2, 2015
Our planet is expected to have 11.2 billion people in 2100, according to the United Nations’ just-released revision of the medium world population projections. With a 2015 population of 7.3 billion, this represents an increase of 3.9 billion over the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 17, 2014
The tragic deaths of more than a dozen women in India recently, after being sterilized in assembly-line style by a doctor and his assistants eager to cash in on as many procedures as possible on a given day —…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Health and Population, India, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • August 19, 2013
Latin American and Caribbean nations have pulled ahead of most other developing regions on numerous measures of economic growth and human progress in recent years. The region has one of the world’s lowest poverty levels; hunger has been reduced…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Latin America, Women
- Elisabeth Braw
- • June 10, 2013
LONDON — When Angelina Jolie and William Hague traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in March, the Hollywood star and the British foreign minister naturally attracted attention. But what they came for — to announce a plan…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 24, 2012
Nearly half the abortions that take place worldwide are now unsafe, with women in parts of Africa and Latin America faring the worst, a new report by the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute in New York says….
- Categories: Women
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