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HEALTH, POLITICS

Alice Evans: The Global Gag Rule, & the politics of abortion

Let’s not overestimate the influence of the US. The rest of the world can stand up for progress.

All around the world fewer women are dying in childbirth than they used to. Since 1990, the maternal mortality rate has almost halved. We are making progress. But this is jeopardised by the Global Gag Rule, reinstated by Donald Trump as one of his first acts as president. By restricting funding to NGOs that support women’s to access abortion and family planning, more women are at risk of death and injury.

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IDENTITY, POLITICS

Golriz Ghahraman on identity & democracy: I can’t shed my skin

It is February 2017, a strangely over-hyped and over-burdened new year, laden with the expectation it will bring an antidote to the last. Billed as an anomaly of cosmic and human failure, 2016 saw the eruption of Brexit, the election of Donald Trump – or, the failure of ‘the world’s greatest democracy’ to elect its first female president – and countless deaths of beloved geniuses of the arts.

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