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Mar 28th, 2022 |
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By Joshua Mirondo, Transition Earth. Young people are diverse and so are their needs, therefore to get their attention, one needs to be considerate. In a community where reproductive health is often called immoral, it takes a lot of work to break these barriers. Many interventions have been made to ensure that young people have
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Tags: Aga Khan Foundation, reproductive health, reproductive rights, sports, SRHR, Tackle Africa, Tiko
Feb 18th, 2022 |
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By Joshua Mirondo, youth writer for Transition Earth. At the age of 19, Martha (not her real name) is living with a mental disability in Uganda’s Odia, Arua district. She is a mother of two children, a 9-year-old and 4-year-old. Martha has no idea of who their fathers are and neither do the people with
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Tags: choice, reproductive health, reproductive rights
Aug 12th, 2019 |
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By Joshua Mirondo, youth writer for Transition Earth. Uganda is at risk of having adverse gender, human rights and environment effects because of its high population growth rate. There is an annual increase of 3.3 percent, which is one of the fastest in Africa – and the whole world. Since the majority of Uganda’s population is
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Tags: Climate Change, men and family planning, reproductive rights, teen sex
Nov 19th, 2018 |
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By Suzanne York. This question came up a few times at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), a biennial gathering of reproductive health and rights advocates. This year’s conference included a small number of attendees who address both reproductive health and conservation/environmental rights through a development approach known as PHE, or population, health and environment. The
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Tags: conservation, PHE, reproductive health, reproductive rights, sustainability
Oct 11th, 2018 |
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By Suzanne York. At first glance, the recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on global warming may not seem to have much to do with the International Day of the Girl, observed on October 11th. But climate change has a lot to do with girls, and especially the rights of girls. For one
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Tags: Climate Change, Family Planning, girl empowerment, girl's education, International Day of the Girl, reproductive rights
Apr 8th, 2018 |
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By Joshua Mirondo, guest blogger for Transition Earth. Uganda is a very young country. Young people below the age of 30 constitute over 75% of the nation’s population and eight million are youth aged 15-30. About 25% of these are in institutions of higher learning like universities and vocational technical institutes. Research shows that almost
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Tags: Climate Change, contraception, Family Planning, reproductive health, reproductive rights, SRHR, Uganda, youth rights
Feb 26th, 2018 |
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By Suzanne York. Given the chance, would you support something that many women say they want? Something that is not costly in the scheme of things? That “something” would be contraceptives and family planning services, and yet it is under threat in the U.S. and around the world (mainly because of the U.S. government). The
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Tags: contraception, international family planning assistance, reproductive health, reproductive justice, reproductive rights
Aug 11th, 2017 |
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By Suzanne York. On this World Elephant Day, it’s well known to many people that elephants are on the path to extinction in the wild, if something isn’t done soon to change this narrative. Last year, the Great Elephant Census, based on aerial surveys, concluded there are just over 350,000 elephants in Africa. It is
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Tags: conservation, endangered species, Family Planning, PHE, Population Growth, reproductive rights, World Elephant Day
Mar 11th, 2015 |
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By Kimberly Absher, guest youth blogger, www.howmany.org. After looking at sexual education challenges in South Africa and in the U.K., it seems appropriate to examine our sexual education picture in the United States. Currently there are no national standards for sexual education. Instead, the width and breadth of what students learn is determined on a state
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Tags: abstinence only, reproductive rights, sex education, youth empowerment
Mar 2nd, 2015 |
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By Kimberly Absher, guest youth blogger, www.howmany.org. My last post discussed sexual education in South Africa, and this week I am in the United Kingdom, where sexual education is a hot topic. I recently spoke with Simon Ross, Chief Executive of Population Matters, an organization promoting small family size and mindful consumption. They are part of
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Tags: reproductive rights, sex education, sexual violence, sustainability, youth rights