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Access to Medical Abortion and Self-Managed Abortion: FIGO and Partners Share Key Insights with the United Nations
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On 18th March 2021, FIGO – in collaboration with the Centre for Reproductive Rights and Ipas – organised a discussion on ‘Access to medical abortion and self –managed abortion. Key insights from health workers and human rights advocates: on guaranteeing human rights’ with United Nations treaty monitoring committee members and Special Procedures mandate holders.
These elected UN experts have a responsibility to interpret human rights treaties, which includes monitoring states’ compliance with their legally binding human rights obligations and recommendations from UN experts. This includes reproductive rights and access to safe abortion. The UN experts do this by conducting fact-finding missions and issuing progress reports and statements, in addition to conducting review meetings with governments to assess their progress.
Vice President Kamala Harris hosted a roundtable discussion at the White House on Tuesday.Credit.Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
April 13, 2021, 2:25 p.m. ET
The White House on Tuesday issued its first-ever presidential proclamation marking Black Maternal Health Week as part of the administration’s broader efforts to draw attention to and address the vast racial gaps in pregnancy and childbirth-related deaths and complications in the United States.
“Black women in our country are facing a maternal health crisis,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who hosted a round table on the issue alongside Susan Rice, director of the Domestic Policy Council.
“We know the primary reasons why: systemic racial inequities and implicit bias,” Ms. Harris added.
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BETHESDA, Md., April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) welcomed five new directors, including a new president-elect, to its Board of Directors at the 2021 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting – A Virtual Experience. The new Board members will serve as advocates for the organization and will assist in shaping and implementing the mission, vision, and direction of the College. The five newly elected directors will serve six-year terms from April 2021 to March 2027. I have enjoyed the chance to meet our recently elected Board members. Each of them offers unique perspectives, new insights and opportunities to advance ACMG s strategic plan, said Anthony Gregg, MD, MBA, FACMG, president of the ACMG. I hope every ACMG member feels comfortable reaching out to the Board with the goal of moving our strategic plan forward. There are many ways to plug in.
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Lockdown froze life, but not its creation. Not the best of times to bring a new life to a pandemic-stricken world, doomsayers would have surely advised. But for many busy couples from the frenetic era of pre-Covid times, it was an unexpected “ek-kamre-mein-band-ho” kind of stress-free freebie and they made the most of it.
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