Young Arab women have led and are leading the charge for women's rights in the Arab world. Yet spring has turned quickly to winter and the prospects they face are grimmer than the world may have realized. At AWID 2012, young Arab women activists speak for themselves.
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin announces its plan to stop offering non-surgical abortions, a move that will make terminating a pregnancy much more invasive for all women.
Oklahoma is one step from passing a mostly redundant heartbeat law and Louisiana is considering a bill to require women listen to embryonic or fetal heartbeats.
In the Dominican Republic, groups have been working to secure political and public support for reducing teenage pregnancy and ensuring access to youth-friendly health services and education. In the Dominican Republic, high rates of adolescent fertility and maternal mortality have attracted the attention of national authorities and civil society organizations.
As the State of Texas and Planned Parenthood take their fight for the Women's Health Program to court, Texas women are left wondering where they will get the health care they need--and when. This is just one woman's story out of 130,000.
In many regions of the world, women produce the majority of the food consumed by their families and communities, and make up the majority of the world's small-scale farmers, yet own the rights to almost none of the land. At AWID 2012, experts examined what is changing and how.
The Republican controlled legislature wants to make it a felony if a doctor is not in the room when RU-486 is dispensed, and create new licensing requirements for clinics that provide abortions.
