Andrea Lynch spent four years in the communications program of the International Women's Health Coalition, where she worked to build global support for sexual and reproductive health and rights through developing resources for activists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and building awareness of how U.S. policies impact women and youth worldwide. She recently conducted research on interorganizational alliances for a masters degree in Participation, Power, and Social Change, based at the Nicaraguan NGO Puntos de Encuentro in Managua, Nicaragua.
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Officials in the government of the PEPFAR poster child, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, are cracking down on Ugandan LGBT activists, while the U.S. government stays quiet.
Having a child as a teenager is undeniably difficult, and providing women with the tools to avoid or delay pregnancy until they feel ready is a worthy policy goal. But when adolescent pregnancy is not prevented, how far are we willing to go to help our young mothers?
In this two-part series, Andrea Lynch looks at the closure of the New York City Department of Education’s “P schools” – educational programs for pregnant and parenting students – and the new ways grassroots groups conceive of teen parenting.
Legislation proposed by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) would take concrete steps to prevent child marriage in the countries where girls are most vulnerable by generating political commitment to address child marriage as a human rights abuse.
Last Thursday, the Nicaraguan National Assembly voted 66-3 to recriminalize therapeutic abortion during an overhaul of the Nicaraguan penal code, again choosing unvarnished political opportunism over accepted medical consensus and concern for women’s health.
Abortion funds know that for low-income and uninsured women, Roe v. Wade has, essentially, been overturned.
Hillary, women just don’t love you, insists the Susan B. Anthony List. But read the organization’s own polls and find a different story.
Why is improving maternal health the “most elusive” of the UN Millennium Goals? Perhaps because it requires us to talk about how much societies value women.
