New York Times The War on Women Editorial Republicans in the House of Representatives are mounting an assault on women’s health and freedom that would deny millions of women access to affordable contraception and life-saving cancer screenings and cut nutritional support for millions of newborn babies in struggling families. And this is just the beginning. [...]
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The War on Women
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Uncategorized on February 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
54th Session on the UN Commission on the Status of Women Progress but Huge Political Challenges Ahead
Posted in Economic Justice, Education & Training, Environment, Health, Human Rights, Institutional Mechanisms, Media, Peace, Poverty, Power Sharing, Read before blogging, The Girl Child, Violence, tagged Beijing Plus 15, CSW, feminism, health, Human Rights, women rights on July 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The CSW 54 ended with lingering questions crying out for answers.
Were there any commitments to protect the universality of women’s rights, including sexual and reproductive rights?
Was there any significant progress on the proposal to set up a separate U.N. agency – officially called a gender entity – for women?
And were there any indications of increased funding for gender-related issues, including resources to battle sexual violence?
Health Care Reform for Women NOW
Posted in Health, Human Rights on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We are at a critical juncture in Health Care Reform – the US Senate will soon debate their Bill (as yet with no number) and vote. It will go to a Conference Committee with the recently passed House of Representatives bill AND Stupak Amendment. Hopefully the final bill will be voted up or down by [...]
ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND ACCESS TO FAMILY PLANNING
Posted in Health on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Diana Madoshi Economic expansion of the kind that is needed at this time is crucially dependent on this administration making a full and firm commitment to closing the last remaining gaps that exist in true racial equality AS WELL AS gender parity. This is not to mention that we witnessed a vast and growing [...]
Statement of President Barack Obama on Rescinding the Mexico City Policy
Posted in Health, Human Rights on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release January 23, 2009 Statement of President Barack Obama on Rescinding the Mexico City Policy “It is clear that the provisions of the Mexico City Policy are unnecessarily broad and unwarranted under current law, and for the past eight years, they have undermined efforts [...]
Legal Action Targets New HHS Regulation
Posted in Health on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HARTFORD, CT, Jan. 15 — Family planning supporters today took legal action here to overturn a new regulation that gives hospitals, health aides and even clinic receptionists veto power over women’s health care needs. The National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, represented by the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and Planned [...]
