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BEYOND THE MARCH: SUPPORTING WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS GLOBALLY

BEYOND THE MARCH: SUPPORTING WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS GLOBALLY

McLeod Group Blog, January 30, 2017

The organizers expected about 800 people to show up for the Ottawa Women’s March on Saturday, January 21st. Instead, between 6,000 and 8,000 people converged on the Human Rights Monument –women, men, and children, many wearing versions of the now iconic pink pussy hat and carrying clever signs playing on Trump’s vulgar comments about how to treat women. In cities and towns across Canada, people came for many different reasons, but there was a clear ...

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WOMEN’S HEALTH: KNOWLEDGE, EVIDENCE AND COMMITMENT PLEASE

WOMEN’S HEALTH: KNOWLEDGE, EVIDENCE AND COMMITMENT PLEASE

McLeod Group Guest Blog by Alison Y. Riddle, July 12, 2016

The lack of public consultation and evidence-based policy-making that characterized the Conservative government resulted in a dilution of Canada’s historically strong reputation as a global human rights champion, especially when it came to the promotion of gender equality and women’s rights on the international stage. The recent independent evaluation of Canada’s Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Initiative that Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched at the 2010 G8 ...

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Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit, Part 4: Is it divisive to care about the 47,000 women who die yearly from unsafe abortions?

Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit, Part 4: Is it divisive to care about the 47,000 women who die yearly from unsafe abortions?

By Diana Rivington and Elizabeth McAllister

More maternal and child health funding is welcome, but the lack of focus on the human rights of women and girls is not.

In taking stock of last week’s maternal, newborn and child health summit, Prime Minister Stephen Harper gets kudos for pledging more money to achieve UN Millennium Development Goal 4, to reduce child mortality, and Goal 5, to improve maternal health. But the second target of Goal 5, ‘achieve universal access to reproductive health,’ ...

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Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit, Part 2: The Hole in the Donut

Mr. Harper’s Maternal and Child Health Summit, Part 2: The Hole in the Donut

McLeod Group Blog, May 25, 2014

The Harper government’s Muskoka Initiative is based on the fact that “women and children in developing countries are significantly more likely to die from simple, preventable causes, due to lack of proven, affordable and cost effective solutions that most Canadians take for granted,” as  the Canadian government puts it.

The idea was—and is—that by committing major funding, Canada and other donor governments can significantly reduce child mortality and the number of women who die during ...

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