Kicking Off the Global Women and Health Salon
by Mark Goldberg, UN Dispatch
March 27, 2009 - 3:50pm (Print)
Among the first executive orders signed by President Obama upon taking to office were eliminating the so-called "Global Gag Rule" and restoring American funding for the United Nations Population Fund to provide international family planning assistance. I think we all would applaud these two moves, however I cannot but help shake the feeling that this brings us to where we were in 2000. For the past eight years activist communities have been organized around achieving these twin goals. Now that they have been met what else should the Obama administration do to promote the health and welfare of women worldwide?
This post is part of the After the Gag Rule salon hosted by RH Reality Check and UN Dispatch.
The list of next is very very long. Stop funding failed abstence only sex ed-why through more federal dollars at failed programs. The education of all women in the world, the key to stopping violence including jihadists. Providing clean water to communities all over the world, providing vacines for illnesses we already know how to provent. Providing women in developing countries with micro loans after education to start small business. Just a start.
