With me, zeinab badawi. Few issues are as controversial as abortion when it comes to addressing womens rights. Pro life campaigners believe that womens right to control their fertility does not extend to abortion on demand. Injanuary, President Trump blocked us federal funding for organisations that provide or promote abortions. One such organisation is the ippf, the International Planned parenthood federation, which will lose millions of dollars as a result. My guest is its ethiopian born director general, tewedros melesse. Does he believe that the ippfs support of abortion mean it is right that it should forfeit Us Government funding . Tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. What does the loss of us funding mean to you . Well you know, i take it from two parts. One is that the us has been the greatest contributor to developmental assistance. Now, today, the trump is cutting by 17 to 18 all development assistance. And when it comes to sexual Productive Health and rig
With me, zeinab badawi. Few issues are as controversial as abortion when it comes to addressing womens rights. Pro life campaigners believe that womens right to control their fertility does not extend to abortion on demand. Injanuary, President Trump blocked us federal funding for organisations that provide or promote abortions. One such organisation is the ippf, the International Planned parenthood federation, which will lose millions of dollars as a result. My guest is its ethiopian born director general, tewedros melesse. Does he believe that the ippfs support of abortion mean it is right that it should forfeit Us Government funding . Tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. What does the loss of us funding mean to you . Well you know, i take it from two parts. One is that the us has been the greatest contributor to developmental assistance. Now, today, the trump is cutting by 17 to 18 all development assistance. And when it comes to sexual Productive Health and rig
With me, zeinab badawi. Few issues are as controversial as abortion when it comes to addressing womens rights. Pro life campaigners believe that womens right to control their fertility does not extend to abortion on demand. Injanuary, President Trump blocked us federal funding for organisations that provide or promote abortions. One such organisation is the ippf, the International Planned parenthood federation, which will lose millions of dollars as a result. My guest is its ethiopian born director general, tewedros melesse. Does he believe that the ippfs support of abortion mean it is right that it should forfeit Us Government funding . Tewedros melesse, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. What does the loss of us funding mean to you . Well you know, i take it from two parts. One is that the us has been the greatest contributor to developmental assistance. Now, today, the trump is cutting by 17 to 18 all development assistance. And when it comes to sexual Productive Health and rig
Im recently elected president of the ewan aitken United Nations Association National capital area chapter and im just pleased and tickled frankly to see on an august day maybe because its a cool august 8 what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill on an august 8. And naturally due to the extruder line up of people who are going to be presenting a talking to you today im sure and that brings you here. Five years ago maybe even before five years ago United Nations with the cooperation and certainly of the United States and with many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries duchesses will equally and universally to the critical states of affairs for human rights and for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. Out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily, and portly volu
I want to go back to the slide about replacing announcer you can watch all this discussion at www. Cspan. Org. We take you now live to the u. S. Capitol. It is question with House Science Committee don meyer. He is expected to talk about the potential impact of the Trump Administrations this Mission Decision to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. Just Getting Started here on cspan. Certainly with the cooperation of the United States in many countries around the world begin to plan for the future of world local development would apply not only to the least developed countries but just as well equally and universally to the critical state of affairs for human inhts and for development the bestequipped countries, including the United States. Out of that conversation can this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily to collaborate in how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set we were just years into this. Alrea