June 2019 News Review
For full graphic version click here ECHO Study “After years of preparation, the results of the rigorous ECHO study were released on June 13, sharing a mix of good and sobering news. On the...
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February 2019 News Review
For the online version with images, click here. In these times when access to contraception and safe abortion services seems under threat all over the world, promoting reproductive rights comes in many forms. Government...
Challenge and progress in the year ahead – January 2019 News Review
Angola EU releases 65 million Euros to aid family farming, ANGOP, 10 Jan 2019 Benin Prof Béatrice Ahyi Aguessy, 1ère femme agrégée n’est plus (ép. d’Honorat Aguessy), La Nouvelle Tribune, 13 Jan 2019 Burkina...
Elections and Policies Matter – November 2018 News Review
(For online email version, click here) The US midterm elections saw a “Blue Wave” of Democrats taking over the US House of Representatives and many state legislatures and governorships. How that will affect reproductive...
Moving forward / Moving sideways / Moving backwards – October 2018 News Review
(For online email version, click here) Forward: In Benin, communities are working together to “tackle abortion stigma” and engage civil society in a broad discussion about family planning. The government in DRC, where complications...
May 2018 Monthly News Review
Online newsletter version available at: https://conta.cc/2Kt9OyD Anniversaries Good and Bad May marked the 50th anniversary of the declaration at the 1968 International Conference on Human Rights that “Family planning is a human right!”. Amid calls...
March 2018 Monthly News Review
Education and Male Involvement in Family Planning The first step towards effective family planning is comprehensive sex education so that girls and boys, women and men, are able to make informed decisions. A family...
News Review – 3 November 2017
Education, Education, Education Sex education programs can be the first steps towards greater usage of family planning methods throughout people’s lives. And families using those methods “are less likely to end up in poverty.”...
News Review – 6 October 2017
Leadership! Dr. Natalia Kanem was named as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). A Panamanian and the first Latin American to take the post, she had served as Acting...
News Review – 29 September 2017
A week of days… Contraception World Contraception Day gave a spotlight to efforts around the world to increase access, investment and understanding. The essential point: 214 million women have an unmet need for modern...
