Women
The Million Moms Challenge
Our friends at the UN Foundation are teaming up with the baby center tomorrow for an all day discussion and tweet-a-thon about maternal and child health.
What’s Fertility Got to Do With It? (Got to Do With It)
You gotta love Hans Rosling. In this video, the excitable academic breaks down the data on the relationship between child mortality and fertility rates to construct an argument for smart, targeted foreign aid.
Seven Billion: What Does it All Mean?
I caught up with Maureen Greenwood-Basken, director of policy initiatives for the women and population program at the UN Foundation to discuss the significance of today’s milestone and what it means for the over 200 million women around the world who are denied access to family planning.
Unleashing the Power of Rural Girls
Ed note. This is a special guest post from Tamara Kreinin, the Executive Director of Women and Population at the …
Take that, Pregnant Lady! Indecency on Display in Congress
In a markup hearing at the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, the committee voted to eliminate American funding for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). The vote proceeded along a straight party line vot.
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The SC; HRC; DPRK; South Sudan
The SC: The Security Council today held its last consultations under the Council Presidency of ROK. Tomorrow, Russia will take over the rotating Presidency of the Security Council for March under Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
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The SG; Mali; Middle East; Palestine
The SG: At the Fifth Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna, Austria today, the SG emphasized the role of youth in ensuring a “prosperous, equitable and peaceful future.”
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The SG; DRC; HRC; Palestinian Prisoner
The SG: In Ethiopia over the weekend, the SG is now in the United Arab Emirates. Today he met with Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, where the two discussed developments in the region, including Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, and in the Middle East Peace Process.
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