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Family Planning and Reproductive Health
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Refugees & Migration
Reporting on the increasing incidents of sexual violence, unsafe abortion, and lack of adequate reproductive health services in large-scale population displacements; demographic analyses of massive population movements -- the impact on resources, public health, fertility.

Resources:

Population Council

Human Rights Watch

Forced Migration Online

Religion & Culture
Reporting on religious issues surrounding sexual/reproductive health and population policies and programs, including the influence and interventions of various religious bodies throughout the world.

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Center for Health and Social Policy

Catholics for Choice

Reproductive Health & Rights
Rights ensuring the freedom to number and space children, to have access to quality sexual/reproductive health care, to make decisions free of discrimination, coercion or violence.

Resources:

Center for Education, Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)

International Center for Research on Women

IPAS

Center for Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Technology
Advances in new drugs, treatments and screening methods. Includes the development of contraceptives, microbicides, abortifacients, fertility treatments, and their availability throughout the world.

Resources:

International Partnership for Microbicides

Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH)

Reproductive Health Technologies Project


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All terms and definitions, except where noted, are excerpted with permission from the Population Reference Bureau's International Population Handbook, by Arthur Haupt and Thomas Kane, 4th Edition, 1998.