UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
… which adopted a feminist foreign policy in 2014, and Canada, which adopted a feminist international aid policy in 2014, are united with other countries that pursue a similar agenda without …
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NEPAL – Decriminalisation of abortion in Nepal: crucial debate called for
… of abortion in Canada in 1988 by the Supreme Court. The main purpose of the article is to look changes in Nepal in recent history and how reproductive health rights …
COVID-19 & VACCINES – “With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe”
… vaccines by 29 December 2020: Belgium, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Malta, Mexico, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Russia, …
2020: The Year in Review
… abortion policy in Canada, an independent clinic in Colombia, and in Brazil, Uganda, Argentina, USA and Great Britain. The call was translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. A …
31st Special Session of the General Assembly in response to the Covid-19 pandemic (3-4 December 2020, 14 December 2020)
… UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Member States/Observers registered to ask a question: Barbados (on behalf of CARICOM), Canada (on behalf of a group of Member States), China, European Union (on behalf of …
COVID-19 VACCINE: ACTION NEEDED – STOP THE HOARDING! Rich countries hoarding Covid-19 vaccines
… vaccines are approved for use. Canada, for example, has ordered enough vaccines to protect each Canadian five times. And even though rich nations represent just 14% of the world’s population, …
FRANCE – Feminist diplomacy
… of “feminist foreign policy”. These include Sweden since 2014, Canada since 2017 and Mexico since January 2020. There is no internationally agreed text that defines this concept, and the reference …
SEXUAL ABUSE: CONGO – More than 50 women accuse aid workers of sex abuse during Ebola crisis
… said some came from Belgium, Burkina Faso, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, France, and Guinea. “Why would you even ask if I reported it?”asked one woman. Another woman said the practice of …
ICWRSA Statement for International Safe Abortion Day, 28 September 2020
… Court rescinded all Canada’s laws restricting abortion, though no other country has yet had the courage to follow in their footsteps. Also in 1988, France approved mifepristone, and a new, …
CANADA – Perspectives among Canadian physicians on factors influencing implementation of mifepristone medical abortion: a national qualitative study
… this one. Abstract Purpose – Access to family planning health services in Canada has been historically inadequate and inequitable. A potential solution appeared when Health Canada approved mifepristone, the gold …
ECUADOR – First ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on state responsibility for sexual abuse of adolescents and death of a student in Ecuador
… sexual violence in Ecuador and throughout the Americas. SOURCE: Reprohealthlaw blog, analysis by Esteban Vallejo Toledo, PhD student in Law & Society at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada, 31 …
Telemedicine and self-managed abortion: a discussion paper
… providers and patients in whole areas of healthcare.[4] Having surveyed Canada, China, Germany, India, Italy, South Africa, UK and USA, the review noted that in Canada, “steps to sweep aside …
CANADA – Clinic 554 considers class-action lawsuit over New Brunswick government refusal to pay for abortions
… be in violation of the Canada Health Act for failing to fund these abortions and withheld money from them last year for this reason. But it was not stated whether …
EUROPE & AUSTRALIA – A decrease in premature births noted in a number of hospitals during Covid-19 lockdowns
… Canada, who said premature births across Calgary dropped by nearly half during the lockdown. Dr Irwin Reiss, a neonatologist, at Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands, saw a smaller drop-off in …
COVID-19 ARTICLES
… for all? We’ve heard a string of promises in the race for new vaccines and therapies. European governments, Australia, Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and othershave pledged US$10.5 billion to develop …
National Abortion Information Hotlines
… BBC Mundo, 27 Junio 2022 *************************************************************** CANADA Adapted from list of services by Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada NATIONAL Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights Access Line (and financial …