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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 29, 2020
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In the rubble of what’s left of American commitments to international organizations, one survivor is doing well. The United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, the perennial target of Republican politicians and presidents since the 1980s, is thriving. Arthur Erken, director …
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
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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 care, …
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights, Women
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 24, 2017
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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, global …
- Categories: Geopolitics, Secretary-General, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 4, 2014
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Samantha Power, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, testified on April 2 before the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Appropriations for State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs — on the financing of the UN. (The US remains …
- Categories: US-UN Relations
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