Dear colleagues, I'm pleased to be writing to you after a very successful launch of our Latin America & Caribbean Regional Hub in Panama City. We made the announcement alongside the regional hub host organization, Save the Children – Latin America and the Caribbean, with Profamilia Colombia. We're delighted to begin the work of the hub and thankful to many of you who have
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Plans by the US government under President Joe Biden, to discourage abortion across the globe, may have begun to yield results as non-US NGOs will no longer have access to grants except they certify that they do not engage in abortion-related activities.
The Director, Policy and Advocacy at the Population Action International (PAI), Jonathan Rucks, who at a webinar session organized for media practitioners by Ipas-Nigeria, made the above disclosure.
Rucks said the decision is contained in the Global Gag Rule already accented to by President Biden.
Passionate about the move to key into the global gag rule “foreign NGOs, he said cannot receive any form of U.S global health assistance unless they sign a certification that they will not engage in abortion-related activities. ”
Presidents have played politics with womenâs lives for long enough.
By Sarah Wildman
Jan. 31, 2021
Activists from the Population Connection Action Fund projected a message onto the Trump International Hotel, to protest the Global Gag Rule in 2019.Credit.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images
Mexico City Policy, known more commonly to critics as the global gag rule, which denies U.S. aid to nongovernmental organizations if they advocate for, suggest or even mention the word abortion.
Mr. Bidenâs move was not a surprise. Since the rule was established under Ronald Reagan in 1984, Republican presidents have sustained the policy, and their Democratic counterparts have repealed it. The gag rule does not simply project Americaâs culture battles onto the lives of women and families in far-flung communities across the world â though it very much does that â but also creates what Simon Cooke, the C.E.O. of the U.K.-based womenâs h