international women's rights
Patty Skuster on December 19, 2008 - 8:00am
The impact of repealing the global gag rule will be significant. But repealing the gag rule will not end the longstanding ban on foreign aid for safe abortion care.
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Cecile Richards on December 1, 2008 - 1:03pm
The selection of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State represents an important first step down a new path for American foreign policy -- one in which women's health and rights are paramount.
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Marcy Bloom on August 19, 2008 - 7:00am
Behind the Olympic spectacle, what is the reality in China for women, their health, reproductive rights, and human rights?
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Anna Wilkowska-Landowska on August 16, 2008 - 8:00am
Abortion in Poland is legal when the mother's life or health is at risk, in cases of fetal malformation, or when pregnancy is a result of a crime, and a clear majority of Poles support access to abortion in these cases. So why is accessing legal abortion so difficult?
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Amber Levinson on July 29, 2008 - 7:00am
An estimated one million illegal abortions occur in Brazil each year, yet very few women have ever been imprisoned on for seeking abortion care. That may be about to change. In April, officials took a brisk departure from the nation's relative "tolerance" of illegal abortion practice, arresting the head of a two decade-old family planning clinic for providing abortions and seizing the medical records of nearly 10,000 women.
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Emily Douglas on July 18, 2008 - 7:00am
A House Subcommittee and Senate Committee both appropriated record-level funding for international family planning and for UNFPA, and each adopts a policy provision that ensures UNFPA funding regardless of whether the President wants to block the agency's funds.
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