Another Blow Against Women -- House Appropriations Committee Votes to Defund UNFPA
Reproductive rights are human rights, but apparently not in the minds of House Appropriators.
Reproductive rights are human rights, but apparently not in the minds of House Appropriators.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 05.10.2012
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.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 04.20.2012
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.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 04.09.2012
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.
Robert Engelman | Posted 04.14.2012
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.
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 03.02.2012
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.
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 02.01.2012
Violence against women and girls reflects and reinforces inequities between men and women and compromises the health, dignity, and security of its survivors.
Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 01.06.2012
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.05.2011
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'...
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 09.27.2011
Being a real man means saying no to gender-based violence and discrimination, and respecting the rights of girls and women.
Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.21.2011
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.
Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.20.2011
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.
Carol Peasley | Posted 07.12.2011
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.
The Media Consortium | Posted 06.20.2011
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z7FiBsR8OQ[/youtube] How will the next generation of seniors ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.31.2011
WASHINGTON -- As Republicans continue to push for sweeping cuts amidst federal budget talks, women's rights advocates worry the threat to internation...
Jodi Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
James Wagoner | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
Katherine Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011
Thoraya Obaid, a proud Muslim and Saudi Arabian citizen, just completed ten years as Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011
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...
Anushay Hossain | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 12.07.2011
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...
Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011
I have been in Ethiopia for less than 24 hours and have had my first experience with armed robbery.
Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Valerie DeFillipo | Posted 05.17.2012