At RH Reality Check, Lynn Paltrow of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women and Professor Jeanne Flavin of Fordham University write: “On Tuesday, January 15th, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law will publish our study, ‘Arrests of and Forc…
Geoffrey COwley at MSNBC.com writes:
The editors of The New York Times write: “Unlike the gauge of inflation currently in use, the chained index captures the ability of consumers to adjust their spending across categories as relative prices change — for instance, spending less on fuel as ga…
Gender violence is one of the world’s most common human rights abuses. Women worldwide ages 15 through 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence than because of cancer, malaria, war and traffic accidents combined. The World Health O…
Thalif Deen, of the Inter Press Service News Agency, writes: “The United States continues to be in the dubious company of six countries that have either refused or are reluctant to ratify the landmark U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Di…