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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 December 2016
... that countries need to ensure that reproductive care is recognized as a human right. Current legislation only exacerbates the inequality, shame, and discrimination that women face across the Americas. Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 abortion reproductive rights El Salvador Colombia human...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2016
... abortions at all. The policy’s implementation raises a crucial question: “Can you promote the rights of women and girls and also restrict their family choices?” Copyright © 2016 World Policy Institute 2016 India abortion sex selection reproductive rights JILL FILIPOVIC JILL FILIPOVIC...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
... on reproductive rights and sexuality. These and other nongovernmental organizations are increasingly weighing in on social agendas and filling important gaps in sex education and family planning services. With a population of 5.6 million, and a per capita income of barely $1,200 a year, Nicaragua...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 126.
Published: 01 December 2017
...; “Indigenous Women of Latin
America,” Heather Wurtz; Center for Reproductive Rights; United Nations Honduras Country Report; Peru Support Group.
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to contraception, and no access to safe and legal abortion. While feminists across the region continue to campaign for reproductive rights, responsible paternity legislation tends to elide these controversial issues. Meanwhile, poor people often have very different ideas about what the state’s priorities...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 82–91.
Published: 01 March 2017
... have already made and to undo the policies that female leaders tend to champion in areas such as reproductive health, affirmative action, and human rights. Retro-macho politics plays well with the public because sexism and misogyny still resonate within the culture at large. This is clearly...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2014
... dress right, you won’t be raped. It is to be asked to accept as equal your second-class rights—the right to education, if your parents don’t marry you off as a child; to reproductive choice, if you have money to reach a state-approved provider; and to equal wages, if you’ve had opportunity to gain...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 57–62.
Published: 01 December 2005
..., disease-wracked nations. A billion
enough of the right help, ordinary women young people worldwide are about to enter
may be more important than governments their reproductive years; they form the
Hurting the World's Poor in Morality’s Name 57
largest...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 18–22.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Given the limited right to assembly in China, a mass feminist movement that confronts the Communist Party is unlikely to materialize, argues historian Maura Elizabeth Cunningham. But fragmented and incremental pushes for women's rights will continue for years to come...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of World Policy Journal , we learn about the linkages between right-wing notions of family and economic reforms, the challenges of parenting in increasingly fragile societies, and the ways in which the concept of family is being reasserted and redefined. In my new job, as a senior editor at The Nation...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 108–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., standing just to the side and pointing her iPhone camera at the men. Scott Long, a Cairo-based human rights blogger, and his friend save the pictures and text before Iraqi removes them two hours later. Building anticipation for her special, “The Dens for Spreading AIDS in Egypt,” Iraqi blurs none...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 42–47.
Published: 01 March 2018
... violence against women on New Year’s 2016 in Cologne, Germany. Very quickly some of the headlines asserted that North African immigrants had participated in these sexual assaults, and right-wing groups utilized the attacks to demonize immigrants. The question for a lot of Arab activists who work...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 83–89.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Robbie Corey-Boulet After a backlash against gay rights in 2012, LGBT Liberians have begun to organize and be more public in their demands for equality. But two presidential races—last November’s election of Donald Trump and the selection of a successor to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
... looked to the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which had been in power almost continuously from 1955 to 2009. Shinzô Abe, after an unsuccessful first term from 2006 to 2007, returned as prime minister in 2012 and renewed his assault on citizens’ rights. This time around, Abe has softened...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 95–101.
Published: 01 June 2005
... observers. It is a
taught at the University of Illinois, George state of paradoxes: It is a nuclear power with
town University, and the Johns Hopkins a crumbling educational system. It has a
School of Advanced International Studies. high reproductive rate in a culture that de
He has also served...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 39–47.
Published: 01 March 2014
... ready for a female president. But not all Costa Rican women were cheering for Chinchilla, a staunch social conservative who openly opposes abortion and other reproductive and sexual rights. A group of Costa Rican feminists issued a statement shortly before the elections, detailing why Chinchilla...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (3): 78–87.
Published: 01 September 2013
... session known as the Commission on Population and Development—a lead-up to a high-level dialogue on migration in October. But representatives butted heads, according to civil society observers, with the sexual and reproductive health rights of migrants emerging as a specific point of contention...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 93–99.
Published: 01 March 2017
... by John Cleese, responds: “All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” I have always found the scene resonant yet deeply inadequate. The idea that an imperial...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 43–50.
Published: 01 June 2003
...
Zambians worried that the aid grain could peans of persuading the Africans that genet
be planted as well as eaten. New genes in ically modified foods were somehow unsafe.
U.S. corn could then be transferred through African leaders admitted that their decision
normal plant reproduction to the local...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (3): 103–112.
Published: 01 September 2005
... learned in Bolivia— is diploma, he rose through the ranks of the
threatening to displace supply once again. Chapare’s “cocalero syndicates”— grass-roots
But just as important as the economic union groups that “defend the rights of Bo
forces from above are the political forces livia’s coca...
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