Quick Hit: Thailand Elects First Female PM – Good News?
On July 3, Yingluck Shinawatra was elected Thailand’s first female prime minister in a landslide victory. Shinawatra is the sister of the exiled former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, who was overthrown in a...
View ArticleQuick Hit: Aung San Suu Kyi Tours Burma
Famed and long-incarcerated pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has begun her countrywide tour of Burma Suu Kyi has spent decades under house arrest before finally being released earlier this year....
View ArticleSaudi Women Drive, But Is the UN On Board?
The Arab Spring may have largely sprung, but for women in Saudi Arabia, it’s still blooming. Since the announcement this April that Saudi women will, once again, not be allowed to vote in September’s...
View ArticlePolygamy Takes the Main Stage in the US: What Will It Mean?
I’ve written before about the notion that polygamy is not inherently bad for women, although it is often construed that way by the media – including feminist media. Because polygamy flouts the...
View ArticleChina: Stolen Children and a Booming Economy
Last week, the New York Times reported that between 1999 and 2006, hundreds of babies and children in the Hunan Province were seized by Chinese officials enforcing the controversial One-Child Policy. A...
View ArticleCall For Writers! Tsk Tsk: Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality – DEADLINE CLOSED
The deadline for this series is now closed. Please check back for future series on Gender Across Borders or see our call for writers if you’re interested in submitting. Gender Across Borders, in...
View ArticleHistoric UN Decision Implicates Brazilian Government in Pregnancy Death
Nine years ago, 28-year old Alyne da Silva Pimentel died needlessly from a difficult pregnancy, after her care was both delayed and botched. A Brazilian of African descent, Pimentel lived in one of Rio...
View ArticleWelcome! Tsk Tsk: Stigma, Shame, and Sexuality Series
Welcome to Gender Across Borders’ series on stigma, shame, and sexuality, cross-posted with RH Reality Check and in partnership with Ipas. I am proud, excited, nervous, and touched to be introducing to...
View ArticleInstitutionalized Stigma in Ghana
Earlier this year, 28-year old Abigail Agborku became pregnant unexpectedly. Already a struggling mother of three, she sought to terminate her pregnancy. But something went wrong. She didn’t get the...
View ArticleNew ‘San Jose Articles’ Push Abortion Stigma & False Science
Read this alert. On October 6, an international group of anti-choice parliamentarians, lawyers, academics and NGOs launched the San Jose Articles, a nine-point declaration of anti-rights principles...
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