Browsing All Posts published on »July, 2011«

Free Birth Control for Everyone!

July 21, 2011

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In the coming months, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) is set to identify preventive health services that should be covered at no cost to patients, as required by the new health care law. For women, this would include mammograms and folic acid, as well as things like smoking cessation treatments. But what… [Read more…]

“Breast Ironing” in Cameroon

July 18, 2011

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I had the honor of attending today’s CEDAW discussion on women in conflict & post-conflict situations. The room was packed with both UN experts and NGO representatives to kick off the Committee’s process of developing a general recommendation on the subject. Speakers with global experience in this matter spoke for three hours, addressing the myriad… [Read more…]

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