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UNFPA State of World Population 2009
ARHA launched the UNFPA State of World Population Report 2009 on 18 November at Parliament House, Canberra. For more information contact ARHA
To see the report online click here
Australian media coverage of the report -
Radio Australia
AAP
Sydney Morning Herald
Supporting Youth Participation at the 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Youth volunteers at the commitment desk, Beijing - ARHA staff Rose McConnell, 2nd from left and Alice Ruxton, front
ARHA is an active member of the Asia Pacific Alliance (APA), which brings together organizations from donor and emerging donor countries in Asia and the Pacific working on sexual and reproductive health.
APA has been a leader in building advocacy capacity for sexual and reproductive health and rights, as evidenced by their work with young people at the 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights held in Beijing in October 2009. ARHA staff were active in organising the youth activities of the conference. To read more about these activities click here
Getting a commitment from UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid - ARHA staff member Alice Ruxton, left and Rachel Arinii, Indonesia
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New AusAID Guiding Principles on Family Planning were released on 20 August click here
The Minister for Foreign Affairs announced in March 09 that the Guidelines had changed stating that -
"Australia's overseas development assistance program should support the same range of family planning services for women in developing countries as are supported for women in Australia, subject to the national laws of the relevant nation."
To read ARHA's previous media releases on this issue click here
Mother and baby, Timor-Leste
Baby in a bilum, PNG
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Latest Headlines return to top Note: these headlines are an information resource and reflect a diversity of news and views, not necessarily ARHA's
FEBRUARY 2010
Pentagon to offer emergency contraception abroad - Washington Post, 4 February 2010 Haiti: UN helps pregnant women as risk to babies rises after quake - UN News Centre, 3 February 2010 Michael Ignatieff challenges PM to back aid for abortion - Toronto News, 3 February 2010
JANUARY 2010
TIMOR-LESTE: Addressing the baby boom- IRIN News, 27 January 2010 Amnesty says Burkina maternal care can be "lethal" - Reuters, 26 January 2010 A bitter pill to swallow - The Guardian, 24 January 2010 Why Women's Reproductive Freedom Ensures Our Survival - IPS News, 8 January 2010
DECEMBER 2009
A different kind of politics - Inside Story, 17 December 2009 Help teens have sex without pregnancy - The Guardian, 12 December 2009 Babies still booming as births increase - ABC Online, 10 December 2009 Women challenge Irish abortion ban in European court - The Guardian, 9 December 2009 Website appeal to fund family planning 'to cut CO2' - BBC News, 3 December 2009 Giving women a choice key to family planning - The Age, 3 December 2009 Faiths called to account over women's lot - The Age, 2 December 2009
NOVEMBER 2009
AFGHANISTAN: "The most dangerous place to be born" - IRIN News, 26 November 2009 Population link to climate change: UN report - The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 November 2009 UN: Too many women dying in childbirth in Asia-Pacific - Radio Australia, 19 November 2009 'Women shoulder burden of climate change' - AAP, 18 November 2009 Safe sex message off-target - The Age, 9 November 2009 Hunt on for two million unsafe condoms - ABC News, 9 November 2009
OCTOBER 2009
Obama lifts ban on US entry for those with HIV - Associated Press, 30 October 2009 Can it ever be ethical to let women die? - Crikey, 28 October 2009 Family Planning Key to Improving Maternal Health, Affirm World Delegates at High-Level Meeting - UNFPA, 27 October 2009 Challenges confronting contraception - Bangkok Post, 13 October 2009 United Nations Marks Fifteenth Anniversary of Landmark Cairo Population, Development Conference - Reuters, 12 October 2009 PHILIPPINES: Pregnant women vulnerable in evacuation camps - IRIN News, 12 October 2009 Catholic, a chemist but he won't sell the pill - The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 October 2009 FOCUS: Birth control pill still unpopular in Japan 10 yrs after introduction - Japan Today, 10 October 2009 Review criticises leadership on HIV - The Australia, 6 October 2009
SEPTEMBER 2009
We must say "know" to sex education - The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 September 2009 Contraception fights global warming - Salon.com, 29 September 2009 Spain unveils abortion law change - BBC News, 26 September 2009 Building the Next Generation of Global Leaders - Maternal Health Task Force and Ashoka Partner - PR News Wire, 24 September 2009 'You've slept with 2.8 million people' - The Australia, 23 September 2009 Keep maternal mortality on the agenda - The Guardian, 23 September 2009 Showcase: From Birth, Death - The New York Times, 22 September 2009 Australia strengthens engagement with UNAIDS to halt the spread of HIV - Australian Government, 21 September 2009 BANGLADESH: Rural mothers lack awareness of malnutrition risks - experts - IRIN News, 14 September 2009 When Planning a Pregnancy Can Save a Woman's Life - The Huffington Post, 14 September 2009 Revitalising Efforts on HIV and STI Prevention - Australian Government, 9 September 2009 So many maternal deaths, just across the water - The Age, 9 September 2009 Unprotected sex blamed as infection rises - Sydney Morning Herald, 9 September 2009 Saving Grace - The Age, 9 September 2009 HIV infections level off at 1000 a year - The Canberra Times, 9 September 2009 Older women find partners online - Sydney Morning Herald, 7 September 2009 A mother's life - The Age, 7 September 2009 Contraception myths 'widespread' - BBC News, 5 September 2009 TIMOR-LESTE: Lifesaving lessons in childbirth - IRIN News, 2 September 2009
AUGUST 2009
Blair: end Church's hard line on birth control - Herald Scotland, 31 August 2009 SIPPA closely looking into Condom social marketing - Solomon Star, 31 August 2009 Hospitals Demand Certainty On Abortion - New Matilda, 25 August 2009 Qld abortion law re-write 'cowardly' - Brisbane Times, 24 August 2009 Overseas abortion aid ban revoked - The Age, 21 August 2009 Draft abortion laws ready for Anna Bligh - The Australia, 17 August 2009 Abortion debate gets messier still - Brisbane Times, 11 August, 2009 Youth groups make stand at ICAAP - The Jakarta Post WA sex education site shunned - Perth Now, 8 August 2009
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