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Another Blow Against Women -- House Appropriations Committee Votes to Defund UNFPA

Valerie DeFillipo | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Women and Girls, Global Motherhood, United Nations Population Fund, Unfpa, Women's Rights, Women, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights, Contraception, Impact News

Reproductive rights are human rights, but apparently not in the minds of House Appropriators.

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Remembering and Honoring Our Mothers

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Nigeria, Reproductive Health, Motherhood, Unfpa, International Development, Safe Motherhood, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Impact News

We often forget that mothers need support too, but this Mother's Day can help us to focus on the lifeline that women extend to us.

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Don't Forget the Girls

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Global Motherhood, Johnson and Johnson, Maternal Death, Unfpa, Maternal Health, Impact News

At UNFPA, we work to make every pregnancy wanted, every child birth safe and to give every young person the opportunity to realize their full potential. Today, there are 500 million adolescent girls in the developing world. Their full potential has yet to be fulfilled.

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Family Planning: Making the Fundamental Human Right a Reality

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Maternal Death, Family Planning, Unfpa, Maternal Health, Safe Motherhood, Contraception, Birth Control, Global Motherhood, Impact News

Providing for the unmet need for family planning requires not only tearing down the barriers that women and adolescents face in their homes and communities, but also expanding the availability of quality information, supplies and services.

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What Women Really Want for Valentine's Day

Robert Engelman | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Population, Robert Engelman, Empowerment, Sex, Reproductive Health, Education, Health, Girl UP, Ethiopia, Guttmacher Institute, Girls, United Nations Population Fund, Unfpa, Obama Youth Vote, Women, Worldwatch Institute, More, Global Motherhood, Impact News

Access to family planning and other reproductive health services safeguard the lives of women and their children and promote families that are emotionally and economically healthy.

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"We Don't Divorce Little Girls," Said the Judge. "But How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?" Said the Little Girl.

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Yemen, Unfpa, Child Abuse, Unicef, Human Rights Watch, Barbara Crossette, Jamal Benomar, Najood Ali, World News

The statistics for maternal mortality have improved by 34 percent. That means a woman is no longer dying every minute, but one woman is still dying every minute and a half.

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Zero Tolerance of Violence a Must So All Women Live to Fullest Potential

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Population, Violence Against Women, Unfpa, Humanitarian, Gender-Based Violence, United Nations, Impact News

Violence against women and girls reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, and security of its survivors.

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Occupy The World

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Population, Emc, Unfpa, Maternal Health, Every Mother Counts, 7 Billion People, Impact News

If we truly value humanity, life and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

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House Republicans Cut More Funding For Women's Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: China One Child Policy, Video, Unfpa, International-Family-Planning, Republicans Family Planning, United Nations, 112th Congress, Howard Berman, UN Population Fund, International Women's Health, Renee Ellmers, Politics News

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a bill on Wednesday that zeroes out U.S. aid to the United Nations Population Fund, a women and children'...

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Man Up!

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Girls, Investing, Youth, Unfpa, Sexual-and-Reproductive-Health, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, United Nations, Adolescents, Gender, Impact News

Being a real man means saying no to gender-based violence and discrimination, and respecting the rights of girls and women.

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Back to Bangladesh -- Day 2

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Dfid, Brac, Unfpa, Care, Erin Thornton, Impact News, Julie Smolyansky, Christy Turlington Burns, MDG 5, Chris Austin, Bangladesh, Maternal Health, Usaid, Heather Armstrong, Women News

Narshingdhi, in Bangladesh, is a community that has suffered the losses of too many women in pregnancy and so has organized itself to make a change.

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Back to Bangladesh -- Day 1

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Dfid, Brac, Fazle H. Abed, Care, Unfpa, Erin Thornton, Julie Smolyansky, Christy Turlington Burns, MDG 5, Chris Austin, Bangladesh, Maternal Health, Heather Armstrong, Usaid, Impact News

Given that Bangladesh is one of the countries in the world with the highest burden of maternal mortality rates, the latest news of significant improvement on that front gives me great hope.

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Honoring Our Mothers by Changing the Dialogue

Carol Peasley | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Usaid, Family Planning, Unfpa, Women's Health, Mother's Day, International Family Planning, Mothers, Council on Foreign Relations, Cfr, Mothers Health, Women's Health Family Planning, Mothers Family Planning, Motherhood, Women's Rights, World News

By stating simple facts and stepping away from the emotional rhetoric of the past 25 years, the Council on Foreign Relations has paved the way to improved lives for women, mothers and children globally.

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Weekly Pulse: DCCC Ad Shows Grandpa Stripping for Extra Cash to Pay for Medicare

The Media Consortium | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Funny, Elderly, Abortion, Family Planning, RH Reality Check, Jane Roberts, Stripping, Budget, Poll, Medicaid, Ad, Choice, Katha Pollitt, Alternet, Dccc, Video, Unfpa, Insurance, Mother Jones, Suzi Khimm, Health Insurance, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Grandpa, Cbpp, Josh Holland, Usaid, Politics News

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7FiBsR8OQ[/youtube] How will the next generation of seniors ...

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Global Family Planning Funding Threatened By GOP Budget Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Gop Budget Cuts, Family Planning, Unfpa, Abortion Rights, International Family Planning, Mexico City Policy, Anti-Abortion, Hr1, Frank Lautenberg, GOP Budget, HR 1, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Global Gag Rule, International Women's Rights, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As Republicans continue to push for sweeping cuts amidst federal budget talks, women's rights advocates worry the threat to internation...

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GOP War on Women Goes Global

Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Gag Rule, Abortion, Gop, Sexual Rights, Women, Unfpa, Reproductive Rights, Health, Hyde Amendment, Contraception, Politics News

These cuts to basic services benefiting the poor, and particularly poor women, will not reduce the deficit, will not create jobs, and will not improve the future prospects of the United States.

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Female Circumcision -- 90 Percent of Childbearing Women in Egypt?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraqi Kurdistan, Suzanne Mubarak, Unfpa, Egyptian Women, Unicef, Female Genital Mutilation, Somalia, Africa, Waris Dirie, Ethiopia, Egypt Fgm, Egypt Female Circumcision, Female Circumcision, Egypt Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt Circumcision, Home News

Does that mean that most of the spirited young woman demonstrators and bloggers we have seen on TV have lost control over their bodies? Or do they belong to the lucky 10 percent?

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How Blended Learning Will Change the World

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Online Learning, Mckinsey, Unfpa, Learn Capital, China, Tom Friedman, World Bank, Education News

Nearly half of the world's population is under the age of 25; that means more than 3 billion people. Over 500 million youth live on less than $2 per d...

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The Trojan Horse Republican Congress

James Wagoner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Chris Smith, Culture Wars, Gay Rights, John Boehner, Sex Education, Unfpa, Cantor, Boehner, Glbt, No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, Cbae, Randall Terry, Joe Pitts, Republicans, Politics News

Republicans have held a major press conference to introduce the so-called "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." But, wait a minute! Didn't they run a campaign based on the economy?

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Navigating The Turbulent Waters of Religion And Women's Rights: An Interview With Thoraya Obaid

Katherine Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Unfpa, Saudi Arabia, Reproductive Health, Muslim, Religious Leaders, Cairo Program of Action, United Nations, Thoraya Obaid, Religion News

Thoraya Obaid, a proud Muslim and Saudi Arabian citizen, just completed ten years as Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

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This International Women's Day Let's Aim to End Maternal Deaths

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Family Planning, Unfpa, Maternal Deaths, Pregnancy, Women Deliver, International Women's Day, Babies, Maternal Mortality, Guttmacher Institute, California, Healthy Living News

Ninety-nine years ago, International Women's Day was founded to honor the accomplishments of women and to press for equality between men and women. Al...

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Climate Change Hits Women Harder, So Where Are the Feminist Voices?

Anushay Hossain | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Climate Change, Women, Women's Rights, Unfpa, Poverty, United Nations, South Asia, Global Poverty, Bangladesh, Un, Feminism, Green News

It's the world's poor who will feel the impact of this change the hardest. And who exactly are the poor? Women, who make up approximately 65% of the world's poorest populations.

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Mothers Of Ethiopia Part I: Zemzem's Journey

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Ethiopia, Unfpa, Ethiopian Women, Ethiopia Maternal Health, Health, Ethiopia News, Jimma, Hanna Ingber Win, Slideshow, Maternal Health, Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Hanna-Ingber-Win/Mothers-of-Ethiopia-part_b_300333.Html, Mothers of Ethiopia, Ethiopian News, Huffingtonpost Ethiopia, Mothers of Ethiopia Part 1, Huffington Post Ethiopia, Global Motherhood, World News

Editor's note: Hanna Ingber Win, the Huffington Post's World Editor, was recently invited by the UN Population Fund to visit its maternal health progr...

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Twenty-four Hours in Addis Ababa

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Crime, Unfpa, Crime, Ethiopia Crime, Addis Ababa Merkato, Ethiopia, World News

I have been in Ethiopia for less than 24 hours and have had my first experience with armed robbery.

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Leaving for Ethiopia, with Piles of Cash

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tourism, Unfpa Ethiopia, Unfpa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia Maternal Health, Africa, Travel, Maternal Health, World News

I will spend about nine days traveling around Ethiopia with the UN Population Fund, visiting their maternal health sites and then writing about my trip for the HuffPost.

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