Who is best looking out for the rights of women judging from, say, the the recently held United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women? Especially given this year’s theme of ‘violence against women,’ which is a huge concern around…
sterilization
For decades the Indian government has been encouraging women to be voluntarily sterilized – and they have coopted state and local governments to help persuade the women. Sadly, it seems that on the ground women are being coerced into having…
It is indeed heart-breaking to see the tears of the child in the pangs of hunger. Just as it is soul-wrenching to hear the anguished cry of the child in the pains of disease. To contemplate the day-to-day reality of…
In an unprecedented move to influence Philippine laws on human life, the family and marriage, the British government, together with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, hosted a “family planning summit” in…
