A Woman’s Voice for Women at the U.N. Agency for Reproductive Rights
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2017-12-16
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A Woman’s Voice for Women at the U.N. Agency for Reproductive Rights
Its mobile maternal health clinics, for example, are partly meant to give women safe spaces where they can relax and ask questions about anything, she said, including "things
that are happening to their husbands and families." Dr. Kanem, who was promoted from deputy to executive director of the population fund in October, is among the highest-ranking women at the United Nations and the first Latin American to head the agency.
" Dr. Kanem said, "where voices are much louder this year, than, say, in the past three, four, five years, on women’s reproductive health, reproductive rights — there are a confluence of things." She said her job is
punctuated by constant struggles, in what clearly remains a male-dominated society, revolving around a woman’s right to choose when or whether to have children. that I feel there is a historical moment happening,
African said that There are a lot of people who are surprised that I’m from Panama.
Dr. Kanem, 62, an Ivy League-educated physician and epidemiologist from Panama who has spent three decades working on public health issues in some of the world’s most deprived
places, said the Homs anecdote helped to illustrate how the United Nations Population Fund, an agency known as UNFPA, does far more than its name might suggest.
The administration acted under a 1985 law, known as the Kemp-Kasten amendment, which allows the president to withhold funding to any organization deemed to support "coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization." The administration’s decision surprised Dr. Kanem, she said, partly because the United States had concluded in 2015
that the fund was doing exemplary work in China and did not engage in coercive birth control.
It is a gendered world, and right now, adolescent girls
and women in many communities around the world really do not have a say in what happens to them." To many on the religious right in the United States, the fund is a political target that abets sin with American taxpayer money.
Aicha Bah Diallo said that She’ll put herself in the shoes of the person she’s talking to,
Its mobile maternal health clinics, for example, are partly meant to give women safe spaces where they can relax and ask questions about anything, she said, including "things
that are happening to their husbands and families." Dr. Kanem, who was promoted from deputy to executive director of the population fund in October, is among the highest-ranking women at the United Nations and the first Latin American to head the agency.
" Dr. Kanem said, "where voices are much louder this year, than, say, in the past three, four, five years, on women’s reproductive health, reproductive rights — there are a confluence of things." She said her job is
punctuated by constant struggles, in what clearly remains a male-dominated society, revolving around a woman’s right to choose when or whether to have children. that I feel there is a historical moment happening,
African said that There are a lot of people who are surprised that I’m from Panama.
Dr. Kanem, 62, an Ivy League-educated physician and epidemiologist from Panama who has spent three decades working on public health issues in some of the world’s most deprived
places, said the Homs anecdote helped to illustrate how the United Nations Population Fund, an agency known as UNFPA, does far more than its name might suggest.
The administration acted under a 1985 law, known as the Kemp-Kasten amendment, which allows the president to withhold funding to any organization deemed to support "coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization." The administration’s decision surprised Dr. Kanem, she said, partly because the United States had concluded in 2015
that the fund was doing exemplary work in China and did not engage in coercive birth control.
It is a gendered world, and right now, adolescent girls
and women in many communities around the world really do not have a say in what happens to them." To many on the religious right in the United States, the fund is a political target that abets sin with American taxpayer money.
Aicha Bah Diallo said that She’ll put herself in the shoes of the person she’s talking to,
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