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Right Wing Strategies and the Status of Women

Your Call with Laura Flanders, March 3, 2005
Interview with Dorothy Aken'Ova (INCRESE, Nigeria), Carmen Barrosso (International Planned Parenthood Federation), and Adrienne Germain (International Women's Health Coalition). Click here to listen to the interview on the Your Call website.

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U.S. Lawmakers Get Involved in Uruguayan Abortion Vote

Associated Press, May 11, 2004
By Jim Abrams

Rep. Chris Smith says he hopes that he played a small part in stopping Uruguay from becoming the first Latin American nation besides Cuba to legalize abortion. Critics say he was meddling in the affairs of another country.

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The Feminization of AIDS

The Soroptimist of the Americas magazine, April 2004
By Marielena Zuniga
She is from Mexico. Poverty forces her into domestic labor at age 13. One night she is raped by her employer’s drug-addicted son. But she is blamed for the attack and fired. Her family will not take her back and she is forced into commercial sex work. Today, at 14, she is HIV-positive.

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UNICEF in the Crosshairs

UN Wire, September 2, 2003
By Barbara Crossette
UNITED NATIONS — A couple of years ago, a conservative organization called the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute produced a very contentious report claiming that the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) was complicit in China's forced abortion policy. The report led directly to a White House decision in early 2002 to withhold the $34 million U.S. contribution to the fund that had already been appropriated by Congress.

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