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Aug 4th, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org Try to imagine giving birth in a spartan refugee tent, or worse, while missiles are exploding around you. Or simply visualize having to have your reproductive and women’s health needs met in a war zone. For women (and men) in the Gaza Strip, survival is paramount, but so is confronting the
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Posted in Reproductive Rights/Women's Rights |
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Tags: conflict, contraception, maternal health, refugees, reproductive health, Women's Health
Jul 30th, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org An unsettling article in the New York Times recently highlighted how the world is failing to protect and educate youth, especially girls. At the same time, the article underscores how important education is for adults too, in order to help them protect children. The piece – Struggling to Keep Afghan Girl
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Posted in Youth Rights |
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Tags: Afghanistan, empowerment, Girl Summit 2014, girl's education, girl's rights, Malala Yousafzai, sexual violence
Jul 23rd, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org “Can Earth Handle 29 Billion People? Easy.” Where to begin with this statement? Actually, it’s the title of an editorial in the Financial Post of Canada by one Lawrence Solomon, described as “one of Canada’s leading environmentalists.” This editorial was preceded by another on the same theme and is based on
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Posted in Environment/Sustainability |
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Tags: biodiversity, population aging, Population Growth, urbanization, women's rights
Jul 16th, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org It’s certainly not unusual for temperatures to be hot this time of year, as summer is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere. But things are getting really, really hot across the globe. Last month the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported that the period March-May was the hottest in more than 120
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Posted in Water Issues |
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Tags: California, drought, Population Growth, unsustainable consumption, water rationing
Jul 10th, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org As the world, or at least some of it, recognizes World Population Day on July 11th, it might be a good time to look around at some encouraging projects and initiatives empowering people and protecting the environment in communities across the globe. But first, some fast facts for a brief overview:
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Posted in Other Resources |
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Tags: conservation, Family Planning, media, PHE, Population Growth, World Population Day
Jul 8th, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org In 2013, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere passed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in modern human history. And now, in 2014, carbon levels have remained above 400 ppm for three months in a row. This makes the past three months the first period of
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Posted in Energy and Carbon Emissions |
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Tags: carbon emissions, Climate Change, Consumption, people's climate march, Population Growth
Jun 30th, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org In this increasingly polarized country with a deeply partisan Congress, a divided Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of corporate rights (aka corporate “personhood”) over a woman’s right to use the contraception of her choice. In the long-anticipated outcome of Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that family-owned
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Posted in Family Planning |
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Tags: Affordable Care Act, birth control, contraception, religion, reproductive rights, Women's Health
Jun 23rd, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org. Last week there was action around the Global Gag Rule, an on-again, off-again 30-year-old policy detrimental to women’s reproductive health. The Global Gag Rule denies U.S. foreign assistance to organizations working overseas if they use private, non-U.S. funds to provide referrals, counseling, or access to safe abortion, even when it is legal in the country
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Posted in Reproductive Rights/Women's Rights |
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Tags: global gag rule, international family planning, US foreign assistance, Women's empowerment
Jun 18th, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York. In a time of government budget cuts and austerity programs, family planning is a low-cost investment that yields big dividends. And more importantly, it saves lives. Globally, there are 222 million women in developing counties who lack access to contraception. Off these, 162 million women live in the world’s poorest countries. Barriers
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Posted in Family Planning, Featured |
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Tags: contraception, global health, Guttmacher Institute, reproductive health, U.S. foreign assistance
Jun 11th, 2014 |
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By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org It’s been a horrific year for women’s rights across the globe. Just in the past couple of months there has been the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Nigeria, an “honor” killing of a pregnant woman in Pakistan, the rape and hanging of two teenage girls in India, and a
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Posted in Featured, Reproductive Rights/Women's Rights |
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Tags: culture, gender violence, rape, sexual violence, war on women