Women who are raped in India face societal pressure to marry their violators; proposals of marriage are seen by some as atonement for the crime, even when they are offered just before a guilty verdict.
The Pope's presence in Brazil represents a challenge for politicians in the world's largest Catholic country, due to an already heated debate between public health concerns and church policy.
It's no wonder the anti-choice, anti-feminist and homophobic World Congress of Families will be held in Warsaw this week; since joining the European Union, Poland has enacted discriminatory policies towards women and gays.
Young people deserve respectful, culturally competent care when accessing basic health care services. But some find a trip to the doctor winds up more like a stint in the principal's office.
The unnatural need not apply: the World Congress of Families comes together to defend the "natural family" from big bad "feminists, socialists, and big business interests"—oh my!
"The Natural Family—Springtime for Europe and the World" is the theme for this year's World Congress of Families, May 11-13. The usual suspects of the right-wing movement are involved, coming together to oppose sexual and reproductive rights and health around the world.
Anti-choicers insincere opposition to federally-funded reproductive health programs is the height of hypocrisy considering their slew of debacles lately. From crisis pregnancy centers that have been proven to provide false information to abstinence-only programs that put young people in peril, taxpayers have been funding failed policies for too long.
Leaders of AIDS service organizations around the world explain that the Tobias scandal is living proof that morality-driven policies (like abstinence only and the prostitution pledge) can't work, but they can kill.
Children's participation in commercial sex work brings with it some particularly troublesome concerns in the areas of sexual and reproductive health. There is an urgent need for programmes and policies that meet the needs of this vulnerable group.
