International Women’s Health Coalition
- Ellen Marshall  and David Harwood
- • June 5, 2022

Adrienne Germain, who helped shape international development and women’s rights for more than four decades, died on May 19, 2022, at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 75 years old. Her passionate advocacy on behalf of the sexual…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 6, 2020

For many women worldwide, the fear and suffering caused by the catastrophic viral pandemic is made even more unbearable and frightening by gender violence, as orders to “stay at home” heighten domestic tensions. Reports are accumulating from virtually every…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 16, 2020

This year was intended to be a celebratory time for women: the 25th anniversary of the momentous Beijing conference on women’s rights and how to advance them. It isn’t working out that way, however, as a global health crisis…
- Categories: Human Trafficking, Women
- 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
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 25, 2018

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
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 24, 2017

The first round in the battle to write a federal budget, working off the Trump administration’s ruthless proposals announced in May, has ended in the House of Representatives appropriations committee. As feared by advocates for women, the poor, refugees,…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations