LATEST COVERAGE ON U.S. FUNDING FOR U.N.
POPULATION FUND
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February 24:
The Nation: Bush and AIDS
February 13:
Nepali Times: US
Gag Rule Hurts Population and AIDS Work
February 12:
Associated Press: Disputes over Farm Aid, Alaska Logging Hinder $396 Billion
Spending Bill
February
10:
Redlands Daily Facts (CA): Many
Friends and Creative Opportunities
The Age (Australia): The Truth About George Bush's Anti-AIDS Push
February
7:
St. Paul Pioneer Press: Grassroots Effort Seeks to Aid Poor Women of World
February
2:
Chicago
Tribune (IL): Americans
Give to UN Agency Spurned by Administration
January
27:
East African Standard: US Drive
Against Teenage Sex Takes Lessons from Uganda
Honolulu Advertiser: Roe vs. Wade Hangs on by a Thread (editorial)
January 23:
Knight Ridder: Roe v. Wade
Anniversary Stirs Worries despite Reality Surrounding Ruling
January 22:
Women’s Enews: Seeing Beyond Roe,
Bush Aims at Contraception
January 21:
National Public Radio – Morning Edition: Bush Administration
Promoting Uganda Education Program as a Good Example of Teaching Abstinence
January 20:
The Highlander (University of California
Riverside): Thirty-Four
Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund
Sun-Sentinel (FL): Reproductive
Freedom Is Under Assault (editorial)
Women’s Enews: Bush's Anti-Choice
Polices Felt Around World
January 17:
The Age (Australia): George Bush's War on Women (column by Pamela Bone)
January 12:
New York Times: The War against
Women (editorial)
January 10:
New York Times: Secret War on
Condoms (column by Nicholas Kristof)
January 6:
Detroit Free Press: For
World, Arrogance Instead of Help
January 5:
Chapel Hill Herald (NC): Don't Break Chain: The Rights You Save May Be Your Own
San Antonio Express-News: Bush & Co. Actions Will Hurt Women's Reproductive Health
January
2:
Palm Beach Post (FL): Stealth Attack on Health (editorial)
December
28:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Reproductive Health Efforts Under Assault (letter)
December 27:
International
Herald Tribune: The U.S. and
Abortion (letter)
Philadelphia
Inquirer: Uncle Sam's Hard Heart (column by Trudy Rubin)
December 24:
Savannah
Morning News
(GA): Some Other Ways to Look at Christmas (column by Jane
Fishman)
December 22:
Boston Globe: Friendly
Dollars (column by Ellen Goodman)
Saint
Paul Pioneer Press (MN): Remember
Mary's Woes at Delivery (column by Laura Billings)
Sarasota
Herald Tribune: Quibbling While the World Burns (editorial)
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer:
Reproductive Health Is Not a Euphemism for Abortion (op ed)
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer: David
Horsey (editorial cartoon)
Women's
ENews: Outrage of the Week: U.S. Delegation Tries Rewriting 1994 Cairo Pact
December
21:
Des Moines Register: Skip the Crusade – Help People (editorial)
December 20:
New York Times: Anti-Life Crusade
(editorial)
December 19:
Salon.com: Bush's Drive for Global Abstinence
December 18:
New York Times: Blair for
President
New York Times: Over U.S. Protest, Asian Group Approves Family Planning Goals
December 17:
Associated Press: U.S. Stance on Abortion and Condom Use Rejected at Population
Conference
International Newspapers
Limited (New Zealand): NZ Critical of
US block to UN Population Plan
NPR - All Things Considered: US
Attempts Change in International Family Planning Policies But Relents in the
Face of Disagreement
December 16:
Associated Press: Population Meet Delegates Blast United States for Anti-Abortion
Stand
Inter Press
Service: Region
Stands up to US Effort to Undercut Cairo Pledges
New York Times: More
Than Words to Fight AIDS
Reuters: U.S. Anti - Abortion Stand Under Fire at U.N. Meeting
Voice of America: US Defends Family Planning Policies at Bangkok Conference
December 15:
Associated Press: U.S. Anti-Abortion Stand to Dominate U.N. Population Meeting
New York Times: U.S. Raises Abortion Issue At Conference On Families
December 14:
Knight Ridder: 'Reproductive Health' at Issue in U.N. Documents
December 11:
CNSNews.com: Abortion Debate Highlights Asian Population Summit
Toledo Blade: The Family Planning Gap
Women's Enews: White
House Is Waging War Against Women's Health
December 6:
Nepal News: Plea
against Poverty
December 5:
The Namibian: The UN
Calls for Urgent Action Against Poverty
December 4:
Associated Press: U.N. Official Says Bangladesh Must Control Rising Population to
Reduce Poverty
BBC News: India
Losing Population Battle
Daily Trust (Nigeria): UN Gives
Recipe for Global Poverty Reduction
UN IRIN: ETHIOPIA: UN Urges Controlling Population Growth
December 3:
CBS MarketWatch: U.N. Says Family Planning Cuts Poverty
Financial Times: UN Finds Link between Fertility Rate and Wealth
IRNA: Iranian
Population to Overtake Russians, Japanese within 50 Years
National Georgraphic Today: UN Report: Fertility Education Is Key to Fighting Poverty
National Public Radio: Criticism
of Bush Administration Attempts to Reduce US Funding of International Programs
Reuters: Family Planning Spurs
Growth in Poor Nations - UN
Reuters: Family Planning Key to Helping World's Poor: Report
United Press International: U.N.:
Need Reproductive Rights to Develop
Voice of America: UN: Developing Countries Can Overcome Poverty with Family
Planning
December 2:
San Bernardino Sun (CA): $1
Can Make a Difference
November 25:
CNS.com: Bush, US Policy Assailed at UN Population Conference
November
22:
Star Tribune: Across
the World; More Birth, Abortion, Death
November
14:
San
Francisco Chronicle:
Attack
on Abortion
November
12:
The
Nation: Making 34
Million Friends
November
8:
The
Australian: Sneak Attacks in War against Women
November
7:
Reuters: U.S. May Withhold Some WHO Research Funds
November
6:
Associated
Press: State Department Says No Decision on Contribution to WHO
Program
November
4:
Asheville
Citizen-Times
(NC): Resource Depletion Will Worsen Without Family Planning Funds
November 3:
San Francisco Chronicle: Women's Rights Can't Be
Taken for Granted
November 2:
Associated Press: Bush Administration
Seeks to Sway UN Conference from Support for Abortion
November 2:
New York Times: U.S. May Abandon
Support Of U.N. Population Accord
November 1:
Knight Ridder: Bush Administration Backs Away from
Reproductive Health Pact
Press-Enterprise: Helping Women in Other Lands
October 24:
Chicago Tribune: Another
Slap against Women
October 20:
San Bernardino County Sun: Redlands
Activist Collects for U.N. Fund
October
10:
Associated
Press: U.S.
Grassroots Group Rallies Supporters of U.N. Family Planning Efforts
The
Nation: Dems Roll
Over, Film at 11
October
6:
Boston
Globe: Bush Confirms Antiabortion Stance
October
4:
The
Tennessean: Administration Misuses Health to Push Agenda
September 30:
Associated Press: President Bush Formally Transfers Money from U.N. Population
Fund to U.S.-Run Program
September 18:
Knight Ridder: Small Advocacy Group Influences American Policy
Knight Ridder: PRI
Leader Has Made Career Out of Attacking Population Control
September 9:
Star Tribune (MN): The
Earth's Women
September 6:
Santa Fe New Mexican: Taos Woman Working to Raise $34 Million for U.N. Population
Fund
September 3:
The Capital Times: U.S. women to the rescue
August 28:
Associated Press: U.S. Congressman: Reinstatement of Restrictions on Funding of
Overseas Health Care Organizations Has Not Led to Decline in Abortions
August 27:
Newsday (NY): Bush Is Already at War - Against Women
August 26:
Arizona Republic: U.N.
Population Fund Plays a Key Role in U.S. Security
August 23:
Los Angeles Times: China
Redefines Extra Offspring as Burden Rather Than Offense
August 20:
Washington Post: China's One-Child Policy Now a Double Standard
August 16:
Bangor Daily News: Population-Control Folly
New York Times: Bush
vs. Women
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Funding for International Family Planning a Must
August 15:
Palm Beach Post: Misguided Zealots Dishonor Christ Acting in His Name
August 14:
Los Angeles Times: Playing
Deadly Politics With Family Planning
August 12:
Associated Press: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Calls U.S. Decision to Cut Funding
to U.N. Family Planning Agency "Insulting"
August 8:
San Diego Union-Tribune: Foreign Policy as Political Favors
August 7:
Chicago Tribune: A Step Forward for Treaty; A Look Back at UN Fund
Times-Union (NY): Bush Pleases the Right at Expense of Poor Women
Wall Street Journal:
August 5:
News & Observer (NC): Ignoring Real Needs
Ventura County Star (CA): Denial of U.N. Funds Show No Compassion
August 4:
Des Moines Register (IA): Haven't
We Learned from Mucking around in Other Countries?
Newsday: Annan's Masterful Steps Thwart Bush
San Antonio Express-News: In the Brain Game, It's A Good Time for Women to Keep Score
St. Petersburg Times: On Population Policy, the President Heeds a Small Group of
Fanatics
August 3:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Population Politics
August 2:
Buffalo News: Politics
over Health
Chicago Tribune: United Methodists Rip U.S. Decision
August 1:
Chicago Sun-Times: Causing
Needless Suffering
July 31:
Chicago Tribune:
July 30:
Daily Telegraph (London): China's
One-Child Policy Fines Rise
New York Times: Implacable
Force for Family Planning
Newsday: Bad Move by Bush
Providence Journal-Bulletin: Punishing Women
July 29:
Atlanta Journal and Constitution (CA): Cutting
Off Funds a Denial of Rights
Straits Times (Singapore):
July 28:
Atlanta Journal and Constitution: Bushwhacked Powell Should Bow Out Now
Chicago Tribune: The Horrors Many Women Face
New York Daily News: W's
UN Vote Pure Politics
New York Times: D-Day for Colin
Powell
Newsday (NY): Bush
Should Recognize the U.S. Needs Colin Powell
San Antonio
Express-News (TX): U.N.
Family Planning Deserved U.S. Support
Seattle Times (WA): Editorial
Cartoon
Sunday Business Post (Ireland): Irish
Rotarians Back UNFPA
Sunday Business Post (Ireland): A Voice that
Bush Won’t Hear
Washington Post: Deadly Politics
July 27:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI): Bush’s Veto
Threat
Omaha World-Herald (NE): Politics
vs. Planning
San Francisco Chronicle: Washington and Women
St. Petersburg Times (FL): Where’s
the Compassion?
July 26:
Associated Press: Powell
Dismisses Resignation Talk
Chicago Tribune: Sacrificing Poor Women
Cox News Service: Bush's
Anti-Abortion Policy Increases Abortions
Houston Chronicle: No
Pregnant Pauses in Bush, GOP Drive
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI): The Abortion
Puzzle
Morning Call (Allentown, PA): Bush
Still Doesn’t Understand
News Journal (Wilmington, DE): Bush
Cuts off U.N. Population Fund in Political Calculation
Newsday (NY): Powell
No Quitter
The Oregonian: The
Word for UN Funding Slash Is Base
Philadelphia
Inquirer (PA): Joining
with Extremists
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer (WA): Wrong To
Pull Back Population Money
Seattle Times (WA): World's
Poor Women Aren't Political Pawns
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN): Snubbing Women
Times-Union (Albany, NY): Abortion
Politics
United Press
Syndicate: Administration's
Decisions Will Lead to More Terror
July 25:
Atlanta Journal and Constitution: Bush's Decision Hurts Women Worldwide
Boston Globe: Cutting Off Women to Spite China
Charleston Gazette (WA): Birth Control Hope
for Third World
Cortez Journal (CO): Population
Politics
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY): Pandering
Abortion
Dallas Morning News (TX): U.N.
Population Fund
The Herald (Rock Hill, SC): Agency
Deserves U.S. Help
New York Times: Embattled,
Scrutinized, Powell Soldiers On
Roanoke Times & World News (VA): Abortion Foes Win,
Counterproductively
The Tennessean: Ignoring
Facts and the Plight of Poor Women
July 24:
Associated Press: EU to Step in with More Money for U.N. Population Fund after
U.S. Withholds Funds
Boston Globe:
Daily Camera (Boulder, CO): Procreative
Logic
Des Moines Register (IA): Punishing
the Poorest
Detroit Free Press: Life-Saving
U.N. Effort A Victim of White House Politics
Ft. Worth Star Telegram: Family
Planning
Miami Herald: White
House About-Face
Newsday (NY):
The Oregonian: It
Just Doesn’t Add Up
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA): Bush’s
Realpolitik a Real Tragedy for Poor Women
Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, PA): The Consequences of Bush’s
‘Pro-Life’ Decision Will Linger
San Francisco Chronicle: 'W' Stands for Wrongheaded
Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Population
Politics
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Flawed
Policy
Washington Post: A Blow to Poor Women
Women's Enews: Bush
Cut Aid to U.N. Agency with Eye on Fall Races
July 23:
Akron Beacon Journal (OH): Discretion Ill-Advised
Associated Press: U.S. Cuts to U.N. Agency Draw Anger
BBC: China
Attacks US Baby Fund Cuts
Boston Globe: US to Withhold $34M in UN Family-Plan Aid
Capital Times (Madison, WI): Bush Bashes
Women Again
The Daily Telegraph (London): US
Cuts Off UN's Family Planning Aid
Financial Times (London): Washington
Halts Funding of UN Family Planning
The Guardian (London): America Halts
UN Family Planning Cash
The Independent (London): US
Blocks $ 34M Aid Package for Family Planning Agency
The Irish Times (Ireland): President
Bush Stops $ 34 Million Voted for UN Population Fund
Knight Ridder: Lawmakers
Take Aim at Decision to Cut Funding for Family Planning in China
Los Angeles Times: U.S. Decision to Cut Off Funds to U.N. Agency Sparks Outrage
New York Times:
National Public Radio: US
Diverts $34 Million Earmarked for the United Nations Population Fund to the
USAID
Reuters: China Slams U.S. for Canceling Population Fund Cash
Salon.com: A $34
Million "Political Payoff"
Washington Post: U.S.
Withholds $34 Million in Family Planning Funding to U.N.
Washington Times: Bush Holds Funds
on Family Planning
July 22:
Associated Press: U.S. to Withhold $34M in U.N. Funds
CNN: U.S. to Withhold
U.N. Family Planning Funds
New York Times: U.S. to
Withhold Family-Planning Money From U.N.
Reuters:
July 21:
Philadelphia Inquirer: No More Excuses
July 20:
Knight Ridder: Bush Administration to Cut Funding to U.N. Family Planning
Program
Washington Post: Family Planning Funds Withheld
July 19:
Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN): President Backs Away from Aid to Poor Women
San Diego Union Tribune (CA): Bush Set to Cancel Family-Planning Aid
Sun Sentinel (FL): Keep Funding for U.N. Agency
July 18:
San Jose Mercury News (CA): Abortion Politics
July 17:
Peoria Journal Star (IL): Release
Money for U.N. Population Fund
The Record (Bergen County, NJ): Bad Move on Foreign Aid
July 16:
Reuters: Lawmakers Say Bush Plans Cut U.N. Agency Funds
Associated Press: Bush Family-Planning Policy Criticized
Kansas City Star: Approve U.S. Funds for Family Planning
Lincoln Star (NE): Facts
Can Be Quite Annoying
July 14:
Knight Ridder Newspapers: Bush
Poised to Cut Funding to UN Population Fund
July 13:
Detroit Free Press: Worldwide,
U.S. Help on AIDS Falls Far Short of Needs
July 11:
Salon.com: Bush
Stonewalls Release of Family-Planning Study
