The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Situation Report is a monthly column devoted to examining policy changes and issues around these critical rights around the world. This month’s column focuses on so-called “reproductive tourism,” the growing trend of women in the U.S. finding gestational surrogates in India. Gestational surrogacy is the practice of [...]
The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Situation Report is a monthly column highlighting policies and issues around the world. This month, I’m taking a closer look at maternal death in Kenya. Because of it’s relative stability, Kenya is a popular travel and study abroad destination, and has loads of international players working there– [...]
The Sexual and Reproductive Rights Situation Report is a monthly column devoted to international policy issues and current events around these critical rights. At last week’s Women Deliver conference (covered by Gender Across Borders), Melinda Gates announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would devote $1.5 billion to maternal and child health over the next five [...]
The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Situation Report is a monthly column devoted to international policy issues and current events around these critical rights. This month we’re focusing on restrictive abortion legislation in Ireland, and a case currently before an international court to protect Irish women’s lives and health. Abortion has been illegal in [...]
The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Situation Report is a monthly column highlighting advances or setbacks in SRHR policy internationally. This month, because Gender Across Borders is celebrating its first blogiversary, I’m going to update on a few of the stories and issues I’ve written about in the SRHR Sit Report, plus give some new [...]
The Sexual and Reproductive Rights Situation Report is a monthly column devoted to international policy issues and current events around these critical rights.
Although each disaster is unique, the humanitarian community, including NGOs, government agencies and multilaterals, has begun to attempt to learn from previous disaster response efforts to improve upon outcomes. After the earthquake in [...]
The Sexual and Reproductive Rights Situation Report is a monthly column exploring policy and political issues around the world. This month, we’re focusing on a recently floated anti-gay law in Uganda which has ties to ultra-fundamentalists in the U.S.
A “trans-man” in Uganda. Image: NY Times
The extreme anti-gay legislation was introduced in Uganda by the ruling party in the Parliament, [...]
