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- Advocacy and Foreign Assistance
- Why Women and Girls?
Advocacy and Foreign Assistance
"[A couple of lessons: During the Bush administration, we had done all of this educating and bringing evidence to bear, even though the political climate wouldn't allow policy makers to do anything. But when they had the opportunity, when they became the majority, they eliminated the abstinence education earmark."] --CHANGE President Serra Sippel at Columbia University, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York City, January 20, 2011
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The Global Democracy Promotion Act of 2011 provides that the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act cannot impose eligibility restrictions on international recipients of U.S. aid that would be illegal if imposed nationally. Would constitute a legislative repeal of the Mexico City Policy, also called the Global Gag Rule. - Female Condoms and U.S. Foreign Assistance: An Unfinished Imperative for Women’s Health
Female Condoms and U.S. Foreign Assistance: An Unfinished Imperative for Women's Health, summarizes U.S. support for female condoms, identifies barriers, and offers concrete recommendations for improving U.S. efforts to increase access and availability of female condoms. - Fact Sheet: Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act
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Related Links
- Americans for UNFPA
- Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
- Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR)
- ForeignAssistance.gov
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
- International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC)
- Ipas
- PEPFAR Watch
- Population Action International (PAI)
- Prevention Now!
- Reproductive Health Matters
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