Carolina Ruiz-Austria shares a cross-cultural conversation with the Malaysian National Advisory for Women on violence against women and reproductive health in the Philippines.
Mitt Romney is dissing snowmen, but perhaps what he and Rudy Giuliani are afraid of is answering You Tube questions on abortion. Romney has dropped out, choosing money over talking to voters - see the video.
Veteran journalist Helen Thomas is worried about what she describes as the current "chipping away" of individual rights by the Bush administration and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Should we use the "p" word again in order to reach out to policy makers who continue to take a polite, but not very political, interest in sexual and reproductive health and rights as a development issue?
Anika Rahman watched the YouTube/CNN Democratic debate this week hoping that the American public (or at least the YouTube watching public) would prompt discussion on women's health globally.
Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Tom Tancredo are locked in an apology war with Sen. Sam Brownback, a candidate who specializes in acting first and seeking forgiveness later. Sen. Fred Thompson even has a cameo in this series.
The press is missing an important story: most of the same presidential candidates who want to make abortion illegal are also refusing to support prevention programs that make abortions less necessary.
Senior Advisor for Women's Issues to the Bill Richardson campaign, Dr. Martha Burk, tells us how Richardson's advocacy on behalf of women goes far beyond what we've come to expect from other candidates.
Lakshmi Chaudhry asserts that Hillary Clinton has a "feminist problem," and more so with those who lean left. Many of the very same feminists who were her most ardent supporters as First Lady are now fiercely opposed to her historic bid to become the first female President of the United States.
Women in Afghanistan who decide to become mothers are the invisible victims of war. The maternal mortality rate in Afghanistan is the worst in the world, tied with Sierra Leone,but stories about health conditions there fail to mention this.
