women’s reproductive rights

US Money for Global Women’s Health Is Jeopardized Again

Barbara Crossette
• October 8, 2019

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 repeal …

Categories: Health and Population, Women

TAKE A LOOK

With US Funds Gone, UN Population Fund Faces Brutal Choices in Helping Women

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 most …

Categories: Development, Gender Violence, Health and Population, SDGs, Take a Look, US Foreign Relations

OPINIONS

Climate Change and World Population: Still Avoiding Each Other

Opinion by Joseph Chamie and Barry Mirkin
• September 16, 2014

Despite their intimate relationship, climate change and world population are still not talking to each other. The lack of meaningful dialogue has persisted for decades, with both seeming to deliberately ignore the significance, relevance and impact of the other. With …

Categories: OPINIONS

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Human Development That Sidetracks a Woman’s Power of Choice

Barbara Crossette
• August 4, 2014

The 2014 United Nations Human Development Report appeared at the end of July wrapped around the title “Sustaining Human Progress,” a goal that moves beyond meeting the targets that can measure achievement at any given time but cannot promise continuity …

Categories: Development, Women

OPINIONS

Will Women’s Reproductive Rights Be Dropped in the Post-2015 Agenda?

Opinion by Rebecca Brown
• July 17, 2014

The United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda is the next phase of the Millennium Development Goals, which provided a 15-year road map to tackle poverty and foster development in the world’s poorest countries. But as putting together the new agenda moves …

Categories: OPINIONS, SDGs

Women Must Have Control Over Their Own Bodies

Opinion by Rebecca Brown
• March 9, 2014

Earlier this year France was the latest to join a handful of progressive countries to expand access to reproductive health services — with its National Assembly amending the country’s laws to affirm a woman’s right to an abortion through the …