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U.S. Isolated on International Women’s Health

By Joanne Omang ● Uncategorized ● March 14, 2004

At a U.N. conference on Latin America last week, the U.S. tried to weaken support for an international agreement that puts women at the center of development methods. Instead, the U.S. was left isolated as delegates strengthened their support.

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Kyrgyz Women Tell U.N. They Lack Basic Rights

By Ginger Adams Otis ● Arts & Culture ● January 18, 2004

A coalition of women’s rights organizations in Kyrgyzstan submitted a report to the United Nations this week countering what they expected to be a too-rosy official depiction of the status of women in the former Soviet country.

Refugee Women Need Bias-Free Assistance

By Nisha Varia ● Uncategorized ● October 1, 2003

As the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees holds its annual meeting in Geneva this week, it should commit to refugee women having independent access to all aid packages and better protection from gender-based violence.

Report: Global Gag Rule Spurring Deaths, Disease

By Asjylyn Loder ● Uncategorized ● September 25, 2003

Opponents of the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, offer a first-hand look at the effects of the policy for the first time since the rule was reinstated more than two years ago.

House Nixes Restoring $34 million to UN

By Peggy Simpson ● Commentary ● July 15, 2003

Family planning supporters fell short of their goal in Tuesday’s House vote. That’s not the end of the story, however, in terms of efforts to overturn abortion-related restrictions on U.S.-support of international family planning.

Remove the Gag, Support Safe Abortion in Africa

By Elizabeth Maguire ● Arts & Culture ● April 16, 2003

Nearly half of the 70,000 global deaths due to unsafe abortions each year occur in Africa. That is why we must support the brave outcry in Africa against the Bush administration’s deadly Gag Rule.

U.S. Foreign Policy Flouts Gender Equity Laws

By Ritu Sharma ● Uncategorized ● March 5, 2003

As International Women’s Day approaches this weekend, a foreign policy expert examines the failure of U.S. foreign policy to focus development aid on women and children and calls for stronger laws requiring women benefit from U.S. largesse.

U.N. Election Raises Questions about Women’s Health

By Kathleen Nelson ● Uncategorized ● January 27, 2003

An unusual election involving secret ballots will elect the new director-general of the World Health Organization. Activists worry about who will replace the outgoing woman-friendly director and what the impact on women’s health will be.

White House Is Waging War Against Women’s Health

By Francoise Girard ● Uncategorized ● December 11, 2002

Sometimes lost in the talk about war on terrorism and war on Iraq is this administration’s other war–on women’s right to control their fertility and reproductive health.

An Afghan Exile Returns to Shape Reconstruction

By no-author, Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould ● Arts & Culture ● December 8, 2002

Sima Wali returned to Afghanistan after 24 years in exile and found herself in a classroom, teaching the craft of proposal writing to 18 women’s groups seeking U.N. aid to rebuild their lives.