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June 29, 2009

Helping Men Take the Lead in Family Planning

by Joyce Mulama, East African, Kenya - Two years ago, a United Nations Population Fund report said: “Men usually decide on the number and variety of sexual relationships, timing and frequency of sex and use of contraceptives, sometimes through coercion or violence”.

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Back to Bloody Square-One in Darfur

by Julie Flint, Daily Star, Lebanon - 2002 is being rerun in 2010 – despite Save Darfur, despite UNAMID, and despite the ICC. SLA-controlled Jebel...

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by Cassie White, ABC News, Australia - Australian families have made serious allegations of corruption within Australia's inter-country adoption program with Ethiopia....

Focus on Quiet Graft

by Sarah Wambui, Capital News, Kenya - A report released by the World Bank indicates that if Kenya and other African countries focused on ‘quiet’...

Too Many Women Dying in U.S. While Having Babies

by Jennifer Block, Time, USA - In a new report on pregnancy and childbirth care in the U.S., Amnesty details the maternal-health care crisis in...

The Nowhere Children

by Neha Dixit, Tehelka, India - Human trafficking is the third largest illicit industry after arms and drugs. Neha Dixit went undercover to meet the...