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Gillian Kane

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Director for Global Policy and Advocacy @ Ipas www.ipas.org/our-work/global-gender-and-rights-monitoring

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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"In int'l HR standards, there are very clear standards that family means more than just men and women,” says Bia Galli, at Ipas. “The distortion that if family is not like that..is complete nonsense and lacks scientific evidence.”https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/how-a-former-blogger-became-the-new
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How a Former Blogger Became the New Leader of America's Anti-Gay Marriage Movement
Katy Faust is the leader of the Greater Than Campaign, a new effort of at least 47 anti-LGBTQ groups to overturn Obergefell.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/03/2026
Billy Bragg calls for big turnout at London march against far right
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Billy Bragg calls for big turnout at London march against far right
Musician urges public to send clear message at what is expected to be UK’s biggest ever multicultural rally Billy Bragg has encouraged people to send a clear message to those seeking to divide the country by turning out to support what is expected to be the biggest multicultural march in UK history on Saturday. Speaking to the Guardian before the Together Alliance’s march against the far right in central London, the musician and political activist said participants hoped to “send out a message to our fellow citizens that we are willing to take a stand against [the politics of hate] being imported into the UK”. Continue reading...
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“Trump’s retrenchment from European multilateralism must be viewed from the context of his America First ideology,” said Kane. This ideology is understood as isolationist but really, what Trump and his allies want to do is remove themselves from the responsibility that comes with global governance
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In the European Parliament, global politicians pledged alleg
In Brussels, the far right blamed the left for attacking democracy. The Epstein files told a very different story.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Want to know more about the incoming Chilean president’s close ties to the int’l far right? Check out Ipas’s report on the Political Network for Values.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
UN corporate capture. www.devex.com/news/ikea-ch...
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IKEA chief Jesper Brodin: 'I am the peacock in the land of penguins'
IKEA's outgoing CEO eyes the top UN Refugee Agency post.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
“The United States (US) aims to compel countries that receive its aid to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria to share all information about “pathogens with epidemic potential” in exchange.” healthpolicy-watch.news/exclusive-us...
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EXCLUSIVE: US Ties Global Health Aid To Data Sharing On Pathogens – Undermining WHO Talks - Health Policy Watch
The United States (US) aims to compel countries that receive its aid to fight HIV, tuberculosis and malaria to share all information about “pathogens with
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
As Democratic Institutions Erode, Women See a Loss of Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...
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As Democratic Institutions Erode, Women See a Loss of Rights
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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La ultraderecha española exporta su cruzada contra los derechos sexuales: una red global con anclaje en Argentina
El 16 de octubre se presentará una investigación que expone cómo Vox, Opus Dei y otras organizaciones de España impulsan una ofensiva internacional para frenar los avances feministas y LGTBI en Améric...
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
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Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202... US to destroy almost $10m in contraceptives rather than send abroad for women in need – The Irish Times
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US to destroy almost $10m in contraceptives rather than send abroad for women in need
Supplies were almost certainly intended for women in Africa, two senior congressional aides says
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
share.google/RCaelJHeJZAs... This premise is BS. GGR doesn’t address contraceptives. “The DOS is destroying the products to comply with …Trump’s EO to reinstate the Mexico City Policy.”
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U.S. State Department will destroy contraceptives earmarked for foreign aid programs
The State Department plans to destroy a reserve of artificial contraceptives that was previously set aside for distribution in developing countries through aid programs.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Wendy Via to WIRED, “There is no hiding from the fact that the ultimate goal of ‘remigration’ is purely about ethnic cleansing. It is a terrible day for our country when ‘remigration’ proponents are crediting the US and Trump's administration for normalizing the term.” www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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The Trump Administration Wants to Create an 'Office of Remigration' to Kick Immigrants Out of the Country
"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department...
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
RE: GPAHE, “Remigration is rooted in the thoroughly de-bunked white supremacist ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory, which purports a planned ‘replacement’ of white people by politicians and other ‘elites.’ Jews are often targeted as driving this ‘plan.’” www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depa...
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State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Is Pete Hegseth breaking the law?
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Even “things we can all agree are bad, such as female genital cutting, are now up for debate again”, notes Gillian Kane of Ipas, an American group that campaigns for safe abortion and contraception. nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Meet Africa’s ascendant right
They are devout, well-connected and have a MAGA wind in their sail
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“A newly released report by Ipas…offers damning insight into the architecture of this anti-rights movement. The report traces the funding, partnerships, and strategic playbook behind the Nairobi conference and similar gatherings across the continent. www.mambaonline.com/2025/05/16/f...
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Far-Right Leaders Amplify African Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric at Nairobi Conference
As a "family values" conference ends in Nairobi, activists raise alarm over global far-right ideologies targeting LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights in Africa.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Para o público LGBTQIA+ brasileiro que acompanha essas questões, é fundamental entender que a luta por direitos é global e que o apoio internacional à diversidade e à justiça social pode fazer a diferença para quem enfrenta um cenário de opressão.” acapa.com.br/grupos-ultra...
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Grupos Ultraconservadores Dos EUA Ameaçam Direitos LGBTQIA+ Na África
Conferências sobre “valores familiares” no Quênia e outros países buscam impor agenda anti-LGBTQIA+ e antiaborto
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“The event was dominated by figures from the US right-wing and Christian anti-gender and anti-rights movement, and specifically targeted the sexual, gender and reproductive rights of women and LGBTIQ+ people.” www.mambaonline.com/2025/05/17/r...
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Report: LGBTIQ+ Hate 'Family Values' Conference Coming to South Africa
The 2027 Pan-African Conference on Family Values - a platform to attack and demonise the LGBTIQ+ community - will reportedly take place in South Africa.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Ultra-conservative groups from the US and Europe are attending a “family values” conference in Kenya this week – one of several planned in Africa this year – in what activists are describing as a “direct attack” on LGBT and women’s rights.” www.france24.com/en/africa/20...
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‘A direct attack’: US, European anti-rights groups descend on ‘family values’ events in Africa
Ultra-conservative groups from the US and Europe are attending a “family values” conference in Kenya this week – one of several planned in Africa this year – in what activists are describing as a “dir...
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
“This is especially visible in the attacks… on women’s access to reproductive care. Maternity wards have been shut down, neonatal care all but wiped out, and literally embryos at a fertility clinic destroyed by the thousands…To destroy reproductive capacity is to erase the future of a people.”
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Nakba of the Children: How Israel is Targeting the Palestinian Future
Israel’s war on Gaza is not just about death. It is about making life impossible.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Delighted to be one of the contributors to this important report. "Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: A federal court ordered Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit should proceed in New Jersey instead of Louisiana, 1,500 miles from his family. This is an important step towards justice.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Dangerous and immoral: "The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
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Trump Aid Cuts End Contraception Access for Millions of Women
The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is what fascism looks like, folks
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is depraved behavior
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
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Tori Bedford @bedford.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A video shared with GBH News shows Ozturk walking as several people in plain clothes with their faces covered walk nearby. A man in a hoodie approaches her, then grabs her wrists. Ozturk screams, then asks “Can I call the police?” before being told “We’re the police.” @gbhnews.bsky.social
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It's official, Poland signs off the Geneva Consensus Declaration. x.com/ValerieHuber...
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Valerie Huber on X: "Thank you @EWTNProLife for the opportunity to discuss the vital implications of the US rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration. Our team at @IWH4women is passionately committed to seeing the GCD's far-reaching global impact...strengthening women and families around the world." / X
Thank you @EWTNProLife for the opportunity to discuss the vital implications of the US rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration. Our team at @IWH4women is passionately committed to seeing the GCD's far-reaching global impact...strengthening women and families around the world.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
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The Ecstatic Intimacies of Joe Brainard
The multitalented poet, painter, and cartoonist made work first and foremost to delight.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Canada is also shrinking its government, starting with its Minister for Women and Gender Equality. www.actioncanadashr.org/news/2025-03...
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Canadian Government Eliminates Minister for Women and Gender Equality Amid United Nations Womens’ Rights Summit | Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/03/2025
Uganda’s LGBTQ population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk. Vital medical supplies remain scarce, and members of LGBTQ groups increasingly report feeling depressed or suicidal.
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Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are ‘Heartbreaking’
Uganda’s L.G.B.T.Q. population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“It's multilateral McCarthyism." "The move marks an extraordinary intrusion into the internal workings of the U.N. agencies, which are required by the U.N. Charter to act independently of member states." www.devex.com/news/trump-s...
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Trump's new 'loyalty test' for UN and aid groups
U.S. asks U.N. agencies and NGOs whether they collaborate with communists, totalitarians, or terrorists.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
USAID acting like they’re evacuating Hanoi.
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Kristof Titeca @kristoftiteca.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I've written for @zammagazine.bsky.social on how the Dutch Henk-Jan Van Schothorst and his religiously conservative organisation help to export anti-rights (and anti-LGBTQ) legislation across the African continent: www.zammagazine.com/politics-opi...
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A Dutch lobbyist plays a key role in anti-LGBTQI campaigns in Africa
ZAM is an international multi-media platform celebrating African creativity and new thinking. Committed to giving an edgy and contemporary viewpoint on Africa, ZAM’s content is free of clichés, platit...
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Female is on the list. Male is not. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The US was the sole UN member state to vote NO on a resolution declaring an International Day of Hope
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
"A FIV divide há tempos o movimento anti-aborto, porque de um lado há os católicos, que veem os embriões criados no processo de fertilização como fetos que teriam status legal, e os pró-natalistas que querem aumentar taxas de natalidade", diz Gillian Kane. www1.folha.uol.com.br/equilibrioes...
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
CU, one of the worst offenders, completely rolled over and this admin still comes after them. When will people/institutions etc understand they’re coming after you, no matter how much you submit. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...
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Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to Columbia Univeristy
The White House blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Possible criminal referrals for USAID grantees, completely outrageous. thehill.com/policy/inter...
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Read the list. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
“For the convenience of the US government.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids
Peter Marocco sends letter to UNAids terminating US involvement in serious blow to live-saving health service
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The judiciary isn’t saving us.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is the plan: gut USAID and turn it into a for-profit. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
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Benjamin Black Weighs Shift in U.S.A.I.D. Funding
Benjamin Black, a son of the private equity mogul Leon Black and likely head of the International Development Finance Corporation, wants a piece of U.S.A.I.D.’s funding to invest in “pro-market” proje...
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
*Permanent* visa bans.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
NL foreign aid taking its cues from MAGA world. nltimes.nl/2025/02/20/d...
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Dutch gov't taking "Netherlands first" approach with development aid
The Dutch government will henceforth take a Netherlands-first approach with development aid, Minister Reinette Klever for Foreign Trade and Development Aid announced during a visit to Tunisia. She is ...
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Ipas @ipas.org · 18/02/2025
@ipas.org has been working to protect and expand access to abortion and contraception for over a half a century. We’re not stopping anytime soon. Learn more at www.ipas.org
White text on an orange patterned background reads "Ipas has been working in abortion-restricted environments around the world for over 50 years." The Ipas logo in white is centered at the bottom of the image. Yellow text on a navy blue patterned background reads "We work on five continents with a comprehensive approach that centers the needs of those who seek abortion care." The Ipas logo in white is centered at the bottom of the image.
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Gillian Kane @gilliankaneny.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“This isn’t sex education. This is a disinformation campaign designed to brainwash young children and force an out-of-touch and wildly unpopular regressive and false reproductive agenda in the public education system, using anti-abortion, anti-science propaganda .” www.newscenter1.tv/news/south-d...
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Anti-abortion ‘Baby Olivia’ video could become required viewing for some schoolkids
Bill introduced in South Dakota fails in legislative committee
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