OAKLAND, California, May 28 2009 (IPS) – She s a politically savvy history student at the University of California, Los Angeles who is appearing on countless conservative talk radio programmes and cable television news shows.
She was given the 2008 Person of the Year Malachi Award, by the longtime anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, and received a 50,000-dollar grant from an anti-abortion philanthropist.
On her campus, she is campaigning to urge the administration to cut ties with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a national provider of sexual and reproductive health services.
Meet Lila Rose, 20, the president of Live Action Films, and the new face of the anti-abortion movement.
Rose s emergence onto the national stage comes at a time when Presiden…
Matthew O. Berger
WASHINGTON, Jun 9 2010 (IPS) – Men, women, NGOs, governments, the Gates Foundation. Everyone agrees women are awesome. More importantly, protecting the health of the people that make up more than half of the human population and do far more than half of the work to sustain it should be everyone s priority.
That was the main message coming out of this year s Women Deliver conference here, which wrapped up Wednesday afternoon. The conference sought to generate commitment and investment toward reaching the U.N. s Millennium Development Goal number five to reduce the number of women dying in childbirth and achieve universal access to prenatal care and family planning services.
Those goals are supposed to be met by 2015, and though progress has been made,…
This article is part of a series of stories on disability inclusion.
Participants of the first Disability Pride Parade in New York City in 2015. New York has a long way to go before their infrastructure becomes inclusive for people with disabilities. Courtesy: UN Photo
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 2018 (IPS) – Even though over six billion people—nearly one billion of whom will have disabilities— are expected to live in urban centres by 2050, many of the world’s major urban cities have a long way to go before their infrastructure becomes inclusive for people with disabilities.
As the world’s population ages, in 2050, more than 20 percent will b…
An SOP to vaccinate vulnerable groups without access to any kind of ID card is a much needed step, and one in the right direction. | Picture courtesy: Flickr
MUMBAI, India, Jun 7 2021 (IPS) – In May, the (MoHFW) uploaded a (SOP) related to ‘COVID-19 Vaccination of Persons without prescribed Identity Cards through CoWIN’ on its website.
The SOP reiterates that the recipient of the vaccine must register on the and that the vaccinator must verify the recipient with one of seven prescribed photo identity cards:
Aadhaar card
Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC)–Voter ID
Passport
Driving License
PAN Card
National Population Register (NPR) Smart Card
P…
ROME, Jun 1 2022 (IPS) – Developing countries – in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America and in the Middle East are facing a combination of crises that are unprecedented in recent times. Over the last three years they have had to face the COVID-19 crisis, the food crisis, the energy crisis, the climate change crisis, the debt crisis and, on top of all this, a global recession. The crises have overlapped, and each has added to the problems created by the previous ones.
Daud Khan
First among the crises relates to food – the most basic of human needs. Even before the events in Ukraine there were shortages and uncertainties. International food prices rose by 40% over their level…