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2/12/2013 - Pope Benedict XVI Resigns
Yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will abdicate his position on February 28....
7/29/2011 - House Bill Would Slash Foreign Family Planning, Reimpose Gag Rule
The House State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee voted to cut IFP funding by $154 million for FY2010 and expand the Global Gag Rule, banning funding for family planning programs in developing countries that counsel or provide information to women or advocate on a full range of options, including abortion....
9/1/2010 - China Court to Hear Nation's First HIV Discrimination Case
The case of an unidentified prospective schoolteacher who was denied a job in China because he is HIV positive was the first case of HIV discrimination to be accepted in a Chinese court Monday....
7/19/2010 - US Supports UN Recognition of Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Fourteen members of Congress submitted a letter to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) last Thursday, urging them to recognize the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) as an accredited UN organization....
5/21/2010 - US State Department Appalled By Sentencing of Gay Malawian Couple
The US State Department released a statement yesterday condemning the sentencing of a gay Malawian couple to 14 years of hard labor....
5/12/2010 - Capps Introduces Maternal Health Bill
Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA) introduced the Improving Global Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes while Maximizing Successes Act (Global MOMS Act) yesterday....
12/1/2009 - Push For Access as an Human Right on 21st World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day was globally commemorated today with more than awareness events and free HIV testing sites....
11/10/2009 - WHO Report Reveals Health Disparities in Men and Women
A study released yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO), found that the leading cause of death and disease among women in low and middle-income countries worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, is HIV/AIDS....
10/30/2009 - Experts Urge Russia to Change AIDS Policy
As Moscow hosts the Third Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference (EECAAC), AIDS professionals have focused on the Russian Government’s failure to fund and promote effective HIV/AIDS prevention programs....
9/8/2009 - Berlin Conference Issues Call to Action
The NGO Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development held in Berlin last week issued a Berlin Call to Action urging immediate and international action to improve women's health and access to resources....
6/29/2009 - HIV-Positive Namibian Women Suing Government for Forced Sterilization
At least fifteen HIV-positive women in Namibia who were forcibly sterilized are now suing the government....
3/12/2009 - Obama Restores US Funding of UNFPA by Signing Omnibus Spending Bill
President Obama signed the 2009 fiscal year omnibus spending bill yesterday, which included a provision allotting $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)....
3/6/2009 - Anti-United Nations Population Fund Amendment Defeated in Senate
An amendment to the 2009 fiscal year omnibus spending bill currently under debate that would have removed funds designated for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) from the bill was defeated yesterday....
12/1/2008 - Today is 20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day
Worlds AIDS Day is being commemorated globally today with HIV/AIDS testing initiatives, awareness drives, and fundraising efforts....
8/7/2008 - International AIDS Conference 2008 to Close Friday
Friday is the final day of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City....
8/4/2008 - Multiple HIV/AIDS Conferences in Mexico Begin
Latin American and Caribbean leaders met Friday in Mexico at the 1st Meeting of Ministers of Education and Health to address HIV/AIDS....
7/28/2008 - Congress Repeals HIV Travel Ban
The House of Representatives voted Friday to repeal a discriminatory law that prevents HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country....
5/1/2008 - Ms. Magazine Forum Raises Awareness on International Family Planning
Ms Magazine held a forum at the National Press Club on Wednesday to raise awareness for the effort to increase funding for international family planning to $1 billion in the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act....
3/14/2008 - UN Deputy Secretary General Declares Women's Role Essential to Reaching Development Goals
The United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro announced in a speech that efforts to reach the UN's Millennium Development Goals must focus on empowering women....
10/19/2007 - Global Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Remains Poor
Twenty years after the launching of the World Health Organization’s Safe Motherhood Initiative, the sexual and reproductive health status of women across the globe has remained relatively poor and "disturbingly static," Population Action International (PAI) reports....
4/25/2007 - Family Planning Advocates Delay Proposed World Bank Policy Changes on Reproductive Health
The World Bank Board of Directors opted to defer a decision on changing its Strategy for Health, Nutrition, and Population after representatives from several European countries voiced objections to the proposals....
3/8/2007 - Young Girls Speak, are Focus of 51st Meeting on Status of Women
Over 6,000 women and men from around the world gathered in New York for the 51st annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women....
3/7/2007 - House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Global AIDS Program, Focuses on Gender
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Other Programs held a hearing last week on US programs to combat HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) across the world....
1/25/2007 - House Challenges Global Gag Rule
On Monday, the sixth anniversary of President Bush's 2001 reinstatement of the "global gag rule," a bipartisan coalition in the House led by Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) reintroduced a bill to overturn the policy....
1/9/2007 - Women and Africa, Paramount for New Female Director-General of WHO
Margaret Chan, the newly-elected Director-General of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), recently announced an agenda for her term centered around women’s health....
