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ICPD + 15: Debating Health Care When It’s No Longer “Business as usual”

By Carolina Austria, RH Reality Check, Asia

September 4, 2009 - 7:00am

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ICPD+15 is an opportunity to reflect on public health systems as core social institutions in the face of market failures and inadequacies, including corporate ineptitude in meeting the needs of ordinary people.

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To Be Free from Gender Violence: Our Most Basic Human Right

By Malika Saada Saar, Rebecca Project for Human Rights

October 29, 2008 - 7:00am

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Here in the United States, where the rights of freedom and equality define our history of struggle, American women and girls do not possess a freedom to live out our full potential -- unencumbered by violence.

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Against Backdrop of Sexual Violence, Ads, Too, Exploit Young Teens

By Danielle Toppin, RH Reality Check, Caribbean

October 14, 2008 - 7:00am

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Against a wider backdrop of sexual violence being committed against, and perpetrated by, children and adolescents, the sexualization of under-aged teenagers in Jamaica is extremely problematic.

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A Thank You to Congresswoman Barbara Lee

By Nickie Imanguli, Advocates for Youth

August 12, 2008 - 4:10pm

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Congresswoman Barbara Lee spoke out forcefully at the International AIDS Conference on policy reforms including defunding abstinence-only programs, authorization of the REAL Act, support for clean needle exchange programs, and the creation of a domestic PEPFAR.

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Young Voices Cry Out in the IAC's Wilderness

By Andrew Francis, Advocates for Youth

August 7, 2008 - 5:24pm

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It is not by chance that children and young people in India and countries in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and other regions of the world, are being denied comprehensive, evidence-based sexuality education.

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Youth and Sexuality: It's Not Just a Yes/No Debate

By Brian Ackerman, Advocates for Youth

August 7, 2008 - 1:07pm

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As young people, we are fighting not only for access to information that will save our lives, but also to information that will help us better understand ourselves and explore sexuality safely, as a healthy and natural part of who we are.

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Beyond Vice and Victimhood: Recognizing the Human Rights of People in Sex Work

By Meena Seshu

June 27, 2008 - 3:00pm

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Next month, the Parliament of India will vote on an amendment that could further stigmatize and violate the human rights of sex workers by criminalizing the purchase of sexual services in India.

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Shattered and Strengthened: Postville Church Cares For Immigrant Families

By Lynda Waddington, New Journalist Fellow

June 13, 2008 - 7:00am

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In the four weeks since the May 12 federal immigration raids at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa, St. Bridget's Church has been a refuge for the plant's undocumented workers.

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