News and Views: Women's Health
- Women's Coalition Demands G-8 Action on Violence Against Women (Women Won't Wait Campaign)
- Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria (Katherine Zoep, The New York Times)
- 'Democracy' is Hell (Katha Pollitt, The Nation)
- 'They keep on killing and killing': Murder of women and girls in Guatemala (Jo Tuckman, The Guardian)
- "No More Stones" A Public Seminar on the horrific stoning of Du'a, a 17-year-old girl, in Iraqi Kurdistan (May 18, London)
- World Bank Approves Family Planning Policy Without Changes (Feminist Daily News Wire)
- House Passes Resolution to Address Femicide in Guatemala (Feminist Daily News Wire)
- Baghdad Burning: "The Great Wall of Segregation" (Riverbend, Girl Blog from Iraq)
- HEALTH-MEXICO: Abortion No Longer a Crime in Capital (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Governing the Womb (Ellen Goodman, TruthDig.com)
- Wolfowitz Contradicted on Family Planning Claim (Emad Mekay, Inter Press Service)
- Iraq Refugee Crisis Engulfs Women Silenced by Rape (Rasha Elass, Women's eNews)
- Mexico City Lawmakers Begin Hearings on Abortion Bill (Feminist Wire)
- Welcome To The Other Latin America (Martha Burk, TomPaine.com)
- Iraq: Rape Cases Emerge From the Shadows (Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service)
- Colombia: Women Suffer Abuse Behind the Front Lines (Helda Martínez, Inter Press Service)
- Women and girls suffer most from conditions in slums (UN News)
- Nicaraguan activists bid to block abortion bill (Reuters)
- Iraqi Health Care: Hostage to War (Terry J. Allen, In These Times)
- Global Violence Against Women: The Secretary-General's Study (Brooklyn Law School Event, Feb. 22)
- Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth' (Sarah Womack, Telegraph/UK)
- Bush Pick Threatens Women's Health (Roberta Riley, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Op-Ed)
- Challenging the "Luxury" of Abstinence (Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service)
- Nicaragua Eliminates Last Exception to Strict Anti-Abortion Law (James C. McKinley Jr., The New York Times)
- Palestinian Women Pay Health Toll at Checkpoints (Brenda Gazzar, Women's eNews)
- Battle for Cheap Drugs Also Being Lost in WTO (Gustavo Capdevila, Inter Press Service)
- The Terrorists Who Aren't in the News (Jennifer Pozner, AlterNet)
- Punished for Being Female (Bob Herbert, New York Times Op-Ed )
- Future of sexual and reproductive health at tipping point according to global study (World Health Organization)
- Nicaragua Passes Total Ban on Abortion (Marc Lacey, The New York Times)
- Abortion ban closer in Nicaragua (Will Grant, BBC News)
- Nicaragua eyes new abortion curbs (Will Grant, BBC News)
- [Violence against Women:] Why Aren’t We Shocked? (Bob Herbert, The New York Times)
- Gender Violence a Universal Norm, Says U.N. (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq's women (Peter Beaumont, The Observer)
- Rape risk spirals for Darfur women (Karen Allen, BBC News)
- An Unexpected AIDS Boom in Sudan (Hana Baba, New American Media)
- "Swara" Killings in Pakistan Continue (Zofeen T. Ebrahim, Inter Press Service)
- Turning Back the Clock on Rape (New York Times Editorial)
- Haitian Rape Victims Risk Their Lives to Demand Their Rights (September 1st March, Haiti)
- Lancet Study: Murder, Rape, and Sexual Assault After Aristide Ouster (Democracy Now!)
- HEALTH-KENYA: 'Break the Silence on Abortion' (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- Juarez Killings Escalate As Investigation Stalls (Leslie Fishburn-Clark, Women's Media Center/AlterNet)
- The Future Of The AIDS Fight (Naina Dhingra, TomPaine.com)
- Gates Breaks Ranks with Attack on US AIDS Policy (Sarah Boseley, Guardian/UK)
- Murders of Women in Guatemala Increasingly Frequent in 2006 (Amnesty International)
- The Hidden War on Women in Iraq (Ruth Rosen, TomDispatch.com)
- Rape in war 'a growing problem' (BBC News)
- For the Women of Iraq, the War Is Just Beginning (Terri Judd, The Independent )
- Female Focus Needed to Stop AIDS, Say African and U.S. (Katherine Curtis, OneWorld US)
- Genital Cutting Raises by 50% Likelihood Mothers or Their Newborns Will Die, Study Finds (Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times)
- Abortion Adds to Colombia's Election Turmoil (Nicole Karsin, Women's eNews)
- A Flagging Commitment on AIDS (New York Times Editorial)
- Aids, America, abstinence... (Oliver Duff, The Independent (UK))
- 25 Years on, Anti-AIDS Drive Still Falling Short (Irwin Arieff, Reuters)
- Colombia court eases abortion ban (BBC News)
- Cuba Has Better Medical Care Than the U.S. (Blake Fleetwood, The Huffington Post)
- Abortion lessons from Latin America (Marianne Mollmann, LA Times Op-Ed)
- WATER: Women Have a Crucial Role to Play (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- AIDS scourge in Africa shows urgent need for new women’s agency: UN envoy (UN News)
- Femicide On the Rise in Latin America (Kent Paterson, IRC Americas Program)
- Women in Darfur Look to ICC (Christine Butegwa, Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
- Activists Lash Out at Government Report on Juárez Killings (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Women stay vulnerable to violence in Afghanistan (Pakistan News Service)
- U.S. Cuts Funds for Family Planning Overseas, Stirring Opposition (Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times)
- Family planning row in Guatemala (BBC News)
- The Vicious Cycle of AIDS, Poverty, and Neoliberalism (Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas, IRC Americas Program)
- ASIA: Divisions Harm Reproductive Health, Anti-AIDS Efforts (Johanna Son, Inter Press Service)
- GUATEMALA: Violence Against Women Unchecked and Unpunished (Manuel Bermúdez, Inter Press Service)
- For Too Many Women, Silence Equals Death (Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service)
- 3 million girls still undergo genital cutting, but change is possible (UN News)
- ...Global Number of People Living with HIV Continues to Rise (UNAIDS/WHO 2005 Report)
- Violence against Women as a Weapon of War: Causes and Consequences (Columbia Law School, October 19, 2005)
- Scapegoats of Juárez (Sean Mariano García, Latin America Working Group)
- In Mexico's Murders, Fury Is Aimed at Officials (Ginger Thompson, The New York Times)
- Bush Jihad Against UNFPA Enters Fourth Year (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Women Under Siege, At Home and Abroad (Katherine Stapp, Inter Press Service)
- Rapes in New Orleans Chaos Were Avoidable (Nancy Cook Lauer, Women's eNews)
- The Other Half: Women and HIV/AIDS (Babatunde Osotimehin, New York Times)
- Iraq: The Human Toll (David Cortright, The Nation)
- Rape, sexual violence continue in Sudan’s Darfur region, UN reports (UN News)
- HEALTH: Sick of Globalisation (Kintto Lucas, Inter Press Service)
- Health for the Poor (Raj Panjabi, Z Magazine)
- Challenging abortion law in Colombia (Women's Human Rights Net)
- UN expert concerned US-Peru free trade accord could deprive poor of medicine (UN News)
- In Iraq, giving birth is complicated by war (Annia Ciezadlo, The Christian Science Monitor)
- GUATEMALA: Brutal Killings of Women Recall Counterinsurgency Techniques (Adrián Reyes, Inter Press Service)
- 3 million reasons to act for Africa (Kevin Williams, International Herald Tribune)
- 'War on Terror' Has Latin American Indigenous People in Its Sights (Gustavo González, Inter Press Service)
- An Epidemic Failure (Geraldine Sealey, Salon.com)
- Cuba develops new cholera vaccine (Yahoo News)
- UN Human Rights Committee Calls Upon Kenya to Protect Reproductive Rights (Center for Reproductive Rights)
- Women’s Rights Eroding in Latin America (Laura Carlsen, Americas Program, International Relations Center (IRC))
- FGM in Kenya: Outlawed, Not Eradicated (Ochieng' Ogodo, WeNews)