Issues and Analysis
USA: Recovering From Rejection: The Second Coming of Ted Haggard
Still sexually confused (but not gay) ex-megapastor Ted Haggard is preaching again—and his old friends, James Dobson among them, are not happy about it. Forgiveness only goes so far, apparently, in the world of far-right evangelicalism.
Read more...British homophobia's African problem
Plans for a viciously homophobic law in Uganda are opening up divisions among anti-gay Christian groups in Britain. Symon Hill writes on how the studied silence of some conservative British Christians is revealing their true colours.
Read more...Southern Africa: Safe motherhood for disabled women
Men and women with disabilities face many challenges in Southern Africa, especially related to discrimination and access to services. For many women, this also means that they face challenges when accessing health care services at one of the times when it is most important – when they are pregnant.
Read more...Zimbabwe: Women's rights concerns
What is the situation of women in Zimbabwe?
Read more...United States: The Myth of the “Bipartisan Pro-Life Majority”
As the Senate health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Choices Act (PPACA), moves to the floor today for what promises to be extended debate, the religious right and the Catholic Church again are flexing their collective muscles to include an abortion ban identical to the Stupak-Pitts amendment forced into the House bill. They would, once again, need Democrats to pass an amendment draconian enough for their tastes, and they are looking to Sens. Bob Casey (PA) and Ben Nelson (NE) as their chief aiders and abettors.
Read more...Women’s Rights Are at the Core of Addressing the AIDS Pandemic
A recent report by the World Health Organization revealed that AIDS is the leading killer of women of reproductive age in poor and middle-income countries.
Read more...Mexico's Abortion Wars
In 2007, Mexico City decriminalized first-trimester terminations. That decision triggered a backlash that has pro-choice activists on the defensive.
Read more...Uganda’s Radical Anti-Gay Measure and the American Religious Right
A proposed measure in Uganda would make repeated homosexual activity punishable by death. Anti-gay activists in the United States may think that it goes too far, but they laid the groundwork for it.
Read more...Iran: INTERVIEW-Ebadi says Iran court suspends bank cash, pension
An Iranian court has suspended the bank accounts and pension payments of Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and her husband and blocked her access to a bank box containing her Nobel medal, Ebadi said on Saturday.
Read more...Women Need Water Rights, Not Just Technologies
In poor communities, technologies are often touted as panaceas for poverty. For women in productive and reproductive roles, technologies, such as those for fetching and storing water, can make daily tasks easier. But do such technologies actually ensure women’s rights?
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