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Organisations such as CitizenGo, Family Watch International, Family Policy Institute and Christian Council International promote opposition to abortion, LGBTI rights, reproductive healthcare and comprehensive sexuality education.

African values under threat: African Commission must defend them

US anti-rights groups are working against inclusivity, non-racism and decolonisation

The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/Aids says the crisis is not an isolated supply-chain issue but a ‘systemic failure’ that demands urgent government intervention

Trump’s cuts show the need to democratise reproductive health funding

Sources that are unrestricted, aligned with South African law and human rights, and without political interference, must be found as an alternative to the US

US curtailment of information on, and access to, contraception and abortion care is a human rights violation

Trump’s reimposition of the Global Gag Rule denies many vital reproductive healthcare

US curtailment of information on, and access to, contraception and abortion care is a human rights violation and endangers people’s health around the world

Former Trump official Valerie Huber. (Valerie Huber/X)

Former Trump official and sex abstinence advocate strikes secretive health deal in Uganda

Key documents relating to Valerie Huber’s Protego project are being kept away from the public eye

The vice-president of the US, Kamala Harris. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Gaza and the US elections: Harris is a flawed but better alternative to Trump

Ultimately, a vote for Harris is a vote against the extremism and corruption of Trump, but it is not necessarily a vote for a more just or ethical foreign policy

Anit-abortion activists hold signs outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022.(Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

US ‘anti-rights’ groups boost spending in Africa to over $16 million

Christian rights groups have spent millions over four years in efforts to push anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQIA+ agendas

Pregnant with meaning: Pontsho Pilane’s memoir Power and Faith: How Evangelical Churches Are Quietly Shaping Our Democracy explores the churches and how their beliefs affect everyday lives. Photo: Stephane de Sakutin/AFP

Should we ‘be fruitful and multiply’?

This edited extract from Power and Faith by Ponthso Pilane explores the issues of religion, pregnancy and abortion

Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade, Western conservative movements are dialling up their Africa campaigns

What African feminist movements are up against in 2023

Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade, Western conservative movements are dialling up their Africa campaigns. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Former US president Donald Trump. File photo

US midterm elections: Will Trump be trumped?

The women’s vote, abortion, the youth vote and concerns about democracy are factors influencing voters

Abortion rights activists react after the Indiana Senate votes to ban abortion, inside the Indiana State house during a special session in Indianapolis. The legislature held a special session to ban abortion rights in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade in June. Holcomb signed the bill into law. (Photo by Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Safe abortion: New calls for full decriminalisation

On International Safe Abortion Day, the author issues a new call that nobody be forced into child-bearing UN Population Fund has described such restrictive legislation as…

NEW YORK, USA – JUNE 29: Abortion rights activists protest outside a Federalist Society event featuring former Attorney General William P. Barr at the University Club on June 29, 2022 in New York, NY, United States. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Banning abortion criminalises femininity as it does race and poverty

Unpacking the reversal of Roe v Wade and the ruling in Dobbs v Jackson reveals a pushback against gains made by women

Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade, Western conservative movements are dialling up their Africa campaigns

No good will come of overturning Roe v Wade

The US supreme court’s ruling on landmark abortion case will be felt most keenly by women

Chilean President-elect Gabriel Boric speaks during the closing ceremony of the National Business Meeting (ENADE) in Santiago, on January 13, 2022. – Boric is to take office on March 11, 2022. (Photo by JAVIER TORRES / AFP)

Boric’s win paves the way for a bright, new world for women in Chile

The new movement in Chile has significant potential to continue its already ground-breaking march to a new world for all Chileans, and women in particular

US curtailment of information on, and access to, contraception and abortion care is a human rights violation

Battery acid, cassava sticks and clothes hangers: We must end the global gag rule

COMMENT: The US’s global gag rule blocks funding to any foreign NGOS that perform abortions, except in very limited cases. The Biden-Harris administration must rescind it

Could it be that these campaigners don’t care about women’s well-being and only want to control their bodies by reducing their reproductive health options so they give birth at whatever cost to their health?

‘Pro-family’ campaigners ignore pregnant women dying during Covid lockdowns

Conservative groups are fighting efforts to expand African women’s access to healthcare. Do they care about women all the time, or only when they’re procreating?

Accessible abortion: The drug mifepristone (above) allows women to self-terminate their pregnancies. (Phil Walter/Getty Images)

How to support women’s health

Policymakers must make contraceptives and abortion easier to to access to give women power over their health