UNFPA funding
President Obama's restoration of funding to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, sends a strong message to the world's women that the new president's promise of change is more than just a political slogan.
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The just-passed 2009 omnibus spending bill contains $50 million for UNFPA. But the agency remaining the bete noir of influential conservatives, and the controversy over the U.S. contribution to it isn’t going away.
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At the launch of UNFPA's annual State of the World report, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, a longtime advocate of international women's health, told reporters that President-Elect Obama will restore UNFPA funding.
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