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Around the world, 214 million women want to prevent pregnancy but are not using contraception. For every dollar we invest in meeting this unmet need, we save $4 in education, immunization, and water and sanitation.
- Islamic Support for Family Planning: How the Kenya Muslim Youth Development Organizations (KMYDO) has Mobilized Support for the Use of Family Planning
- Womenomics: How Birth Control is Good for the Economy
- Dollars and Sense: The Case for Contraception
- Empty Handed: Responding to the Demand for Contraceptives
Global Gag Rule
President Trump’s expanded Global Gag Rule targets women’s reproductive rights by blocking global health assistance to foreign organizations who use their own, non-U.S. funds to provide information, referrals, or services for legal abortion or to advocate for access to abortion services in their own countries.
Trump’s expansion impacts about 15 times more U.S. funding and also extends the reach of restrictions beyond NGO grants and cooperative agreements to contracts. This will also broaden the reach of the policy’s already deadly effects, including increasing unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, and maternal and child mortality. Previously known within the U.S. government as the Mexico City Policy, Trump’s expanded Global Gag Rule has been deceptively re-branded “Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance.”
- Reporting on the Global Gag Rule: What is the Global Gag Rule and how is it damaging the health of women and girls worldwide?
- Do You Really Know the Global Gag Rule?: Frequently asked questions on a policy designed to confuse
- The Harmful Impact of the Global Gag Rule: PAI findings from George W. Bush-era restrictions. All case studies can be found here.
- The Many Extremities of a Monstrous Policy: In addition to risking women’s lives, the Global Gag Rule creates destructive ripple effects that pose numerous, far-reaching threats around the world (infographic)
- Gagged and Slashed: How the Global Gag Rule and budget cuts will harm women and communities (infographic)
- Discriminatory and Unequal: Debunking the fungibility and fraud arguments for the Global Gag Rule
- 30 Years is Enough: A six-minute documentary about the history of the Global Gag Rule
In the developing world, one in nine girls is married by the age of 15. These girls are more vulnerable to violence and are prone to diminished educational opportunities due to early pregnancy.
- Child Marriage Toolkit: Data on child marriage worldwide
- Gender-Based Violence: A Threat to Women’s Reproductive Health: This policy brief explains how gender-based violence impacts women around the world.
The Helms Amendment
The Helms Amendment is a U.S. policy that has prevented countless women from getting the reproductive care they need. Most people think the policy enforces a complete ban on U.S. foreign assistance for abortion — including in cases where a woman needs an abortion because of rape or incest, or because her life is in danger. But the policy doesn’t have to be interpreted that way.
- What’s The Difference?: An infographic showing the differences between the Helms Amendment and the Global Gag Rule
- No Exceptions: How the Helms Amendment Hurts Women and Endangers Lives: A policy brief
The effects of climate change disproportionately affect women.
Mapping Climate Change Hot Spots
IPCC Report Recognizes Family Planning Among Social Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation
Weathering Change: Hear the stories of four women as they struggle to care for their families, while enduring crop failures and water scarcity.