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At Long Last, Family Planning Is Back

7/2/12
John May

After twenty years of neglect, family planning is back at the heart of the global development agenda.  Thanks to the vision and courage of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) to reposition this crucial issue, the July 11 Family Planning Summit in London is expected to raise pledges of approximately $4 billion to provide family planning services to 120 million women over the next eight years.

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Women Deliver 2010: A Second Chance for the World to Deliver for Women

6/8/10
Nandini Oomman

The much-anticipated Women Deliver 2010 conference opened with a rousing call for global action for women’s health. A star-studded line-up of health and development leaders committed themselves and urged others to do more to reduce child and maternal deaths. The rhetoric and passion sounds a lot like the calls we heard fifteen years ago that went unheeded. Today there is a second chance for the world to deliver for women. Will this time be different?

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Reflections on NYT Magazine Special Issue on Gender: Three Questions to Guide the New Crusade

8/24/09
Ruth Levine

This is a joint post with Molly Kinder and originally appeared on the Global Development: Views from the Center blog.

This week The New York Times Magazine is dedicated to a single theme: women. The main attraction of this special issue is a stirring essay by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, who write passionately about the great moral, national security and economic development imperatives of investing in the world’s women and girls. The “women’s crusade” they call for seems already to have begun. A few pages beyond, an interview with Secretary Clinton heralds the start of a “new gender agenda” at the highest reaches of the U.S. foreign policy. Also noted is the growing philanthropic attention to the cause of women and girls – a trend that will be further evidenced next month, when the issue headlines at the annual (Bill) Clinton Global Initiative meetings in NYC.

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First Ladies’ Meeting in Strasbourg: More than a Fashion Face-Off

4/6/09
Nandini Oomman

The media wasted no time in pitting Michelle Obama and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy against each other in a First Ladies’ Fashion Face-Off, as President Obama and the First Lady dazzle the crowds in Europe. While it is clear that haute couture and “flawless dressing” are passé, the discussion in Strasbourg between the sensible First Ladies to work collaboratively to fight against AIDS, and for women’s health was the real winner.

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