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China’s Big Condom Painting

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

August 14, 2009 - 11:43am

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A safe-sex exhibition in China has taken to offbeat methods to promote the use of condoms.


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Abortions Rise in China as Sex Ed Lacks

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

July 31, 2009 - 5:27pm

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The New York Times examines the rise in abortions in China, of which Chinese officials blame the low-level of sex education.


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Free Condoms for Internal Migrants in China, But Continued Neglect of Reproductive Rights

By Ramona Vijeyarasa, RH Reality Check, Southeast Asia

July 8, 2009 - 7:00am

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The Chinese Government has decided to distribute free contraceptives to the migrant population, a group previously denied access to the free condoms distribution system.

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A Cure for Chinese Population Control: Video Games?

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

July 2, 2009 - 3:34pm

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According to a report from the All-China Women’s Organization yesterday, officials in China are trying to tackle the country’s overpopulation in a new way: using video games.


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Getting Back On the UN's Good Side

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

April 1, 2009 - 3:50pm

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Yesterday, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development convened for the 42nd time at UN headquarters here in New York. The Head of the US delegation, Margaret J. Pollack, announced the US’s continuing support of the ICPD’s goals, “most particularly universal access to sexual and reproductive health, and the protection and promotion of reproductive rights.”


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More Than Two Children = "Environmentally Irresponsible"?

By Joe Veix, RH Reality Check

February 2, 2009 - 3:51pm

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Thinking about addressing overpopulation as a critical environmental issue is helpful to the argument for reproductive rights.

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"Who's Going To Watch An Entire Show About Abortion?"

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

November 11, 2008 - 3:22am

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Last night the television show Boston Legal attempted to address parental consent laws for abortion. Let me just say that to root a story about abortion on the perspectives of two older men is, well, interesting.

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Global Lessons from China's Tainted Milk

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

October 8, 2008 - 7:00am

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Tragic news of children sickened by poisoned milk in China raises questions not only about its product safety system but about why infants in China are fed formula at all.

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USAID Halts Supply of Contraceptives to Marie Stopes in Six African Countries

By Emily Douglas

October 1, 2008 - 10:17am

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The US government has ordered the six African nations to halt the supply of USAID-provided contraceptives and services to the international reproductive health organization Marie Stopes International.

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Behind the Spectacle: Women's Human Rights in China

By Marcy Bloom, GIRE

August 19, 2008 - 7:00am

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Behind the Olympic spectacle, what is the reality in China for women, their health, reproductive rights, and human rights?

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